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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

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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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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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Sudan

Sudanese MSF aid worker killed in South Darfur

Aid workers increasingly at risk; the neutrality of humanitarian workers should be respected Press Release - 22 Dec 2004
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

After evacuating Kayna, MSF is trying to return to assist displaced in Kanyabayonga

Before and during the evacuation, MSF was forced, several times, to hand over its vehicles to the military. This type of incident endangers the security of our teams and compromises our neutrality in the eyes of other parties to the conflict, and makes its very difficult for us to continue our actions. Press Release - 17 Dec 2004
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF aids displaced in Katanga, DRC

Symptomatic of the void in healthcare in the DRC, MSF is seeing villagers, as well as the displaced, coming for consultations. Project Update - 6 Dec 2004
 
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HIV/AIDS

MSF and HIV/AIDS: Expanding treatment, facing new challenges

MSF has been caring for people living with HIV/AIDS since the mid-1990s. Project Update - 6 Dec 2004
 
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HIV/AIDS

New 20 year patents threaten to end AIDS drugs for developing countries

"There are about five and a half million people in developing countries who need antiretroviral treatment now if they are to expect to survive two years," said Dr Gillies, international president of MSF. "Only about 440,000 are getting it." Project Update - 4 Dec 2004
 
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HIV/AIDS

World AIDS Day 2004: Beating the pandemic

Much of today's research into HIV/AIDS diagnostic and treatment tools is still targeted at developed country patients attending fully equipped, modern clinics. Yet the vast majority of patients living with HIV/AIDS live in developing countries. If we are to really extend the numbers of people accessing ARVs, priority must be given to research that focuses on the needs of patients in developing countries, and their specific conditions. Project Update - 1 Dec 2004
 
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HIV/AIDS

World AIDS Day 2004 - Expanding treatment - Lessons learned so far

The number of patients treated with ARVs in MSF projects has increased rapidly. Today, MSF treats 150% more patients than in December 2003. Project Update - 1 Dec 2004
 
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HIV/AIDS

Access to AIDS care increasing at snail's pace

Overall, the AIDS pandemic remains undefeated. At today's briefing, MSF also highlighted the lack of paediatric formulations of antiretroviral medicines and the lack of reliable diagnostic tests to detect tuberculosis, the number one AIDS-related opportunistic infection, in HIV-positive individuals. Press Release - 1 Dec 2004
 
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HIV/AIDS

Children with AIDS in developing countries die needlessly

MSF: further development of drugs and treatment for children needed. "There is a limited selection of ARVs available," says doctor Heather Culbert of the MSF team in Bukavu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "The problem is that these are difficult to dose and to administer, especially to older children, which makes our work highly frustrating." Press Release - 1 Dec 2004
 
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Guatemala

Guatemalan Congress repeals law that restricted access to medicines

MSF warns that this step forward could be reversed by similar provisions in the recently signed United States-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Press Release - 26 Nov 2004
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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