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Who We Are

Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are.

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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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Reports and financials

Read through our annual financial and activity reports, and find out about where our funds come from and how they are spent.

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What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

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Where we work

In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.

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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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MSF Association

Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.

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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

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Patient blogs

Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases.

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CRASH

Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field.

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UREPH

Based in Geneva, UREPH (or Research Unit) aims to improve the way MSF projects are implemented in the field and to participate in critical thinking on humanitarian and medical action.

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ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

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MSF Analysis

Based in Brussels, MSF Analysis intends to stimulate reflection and debate on humanitarian topics organised around the themes of migration, refugees, aid access, health policy and the environment in which aid operates.

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MSF Supply

This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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MSF Logistique

This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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Amsterdam Procurement Unit

This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.

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Southern Africa Medical Unit

SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Brazilian Medical Unit

BRAMU specialises in neglected tropical diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, and other infectious diseases. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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MSF Medical Guidelines

Our medical guidelines are based on scientific data collected from MSF’s experiences, the World Health Organization (WHO), other renowned international medical institutions, and medical and scientific journals.

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Manson Unit

The Manson Unit is a London, UK-based team of medical specialists who provide medical and technical support, and conduct research for MSF.

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Epicentre

Providing epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations, conducting research and training to support our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excluded from health care.

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Evaluation Units

Evaluation Units have been established in Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, assessing the potential and limitations of medical humanitarian action, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of our medical humanitarian work.

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LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Health Settings

MSF works with LGBTQI+ populations in many settings over the last 25-30 years. LGBTQI+ people face healthcare disparities with limited access to care and higher disease rates than the general population.

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LUXOR

The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.

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MSF Academy for Healthcare

To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare.

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Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

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MSF Paediatric Days

The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

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MSF Foundation

The MSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MSF and the humanitarian sector as a whole.

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DNDi

A collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, founded in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.

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War in Gaza:: find out how we're responding
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Somalia

The Lancet: 'Catastrophic' violence continues unchecked in Somalia

This article first appeared in the Sept 3, 2005 edition of The Lancet. Project Update - 3 Sep 2005
 
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Bangladesh

Team returns to projects after bomb blasts

MSF team have restarted its operations in Bangladesh. Project Update - 30 Aug 2005
 
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Mauritania

Major cholera outbreak in Nouakchott

When MSF arrived, there were 10 patients in a hastily constructed cholera camp in Riyad, just south from the capital. But, with the main water supply thought to be infected, in one day 137 new patients arrived. The situation will likely get worse before it gets better. Project Update - 29 Aug 2005
 
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Pakistan

Pakistan - future of Shashu project uncertain

MSF is looking into options to continue providing medical care to children, be it in Shashu hospital or another hospitals in the vicinity, as MSF wants to continue to assist the Pakistanis living in this area. Project Update - 29 Aug 2005
 
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Niger

For many in Niger, a child's life depends on reaching an MSF centre

She knows at least four malnourished children in her village who have not yet come to Zinder for treatment. The children's mothers do not want to take them so far away or simply cannot. Project Update - 19 Aug 2005
 
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Colombia

The ghost town in Colombia that steals your sleep

One of the area's long-time leaders, a key promoter of the community's return to Saiza five years after the massacre, admits that the first time he rediscovered sleep in this tormented town was in June 2005, when Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) established a permanent presence in the town. Project Update - 16 Aug 2005
 
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Niger

Niger Food Crisis: 'Therapeutic food should be considered an essential medicine'

These specialized foods are ready to eat, do not require cooking or water, come in individual sachets and cannot become contaminated. All of this eliminates the risk of having to add water, which prevented MSF from giving milk to kids at home before. Project Update - 12 Aug 2005
 
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Niger

Africa's miracle food: plumpy'nut

Plumpy nut, a fortified peanut butter stuffed with milk and vitamins is the undisputed hero of the current crisis in Niger, where 3.6 million people 800,000 of them children face severe food shortages. Project Update - 12 Aug 2005
 
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India

MSF response to India floods emergency

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started an intervention in the zone of Kurla, located in Bombay, one of the areas most affected by the July 24 floods. Project Update - 8 Aug 2005
 
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Niger

August will be the worst month in Niger

The Guardian, August 8: A taste of salvation for Niger children deemed not ill enough for a hospital







Since January, medical teams have treated nearly 16,000 children for severe malnutrition, and they expect to treat more than 30,000 by the end of the year. While it offers no consolation to parents grieving the loss of a child like Moussa, the overwhelming majority of children treated by MSF survive. Project Update - 8 Aug 2005
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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