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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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MSF Websites

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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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Mozambique

Weapons of mass vaccination

Cholera fighters might soon have a new weapon in their arsenal - an oral vaccine. Project Update - 27 Feb 2004
 
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Angola

MSF assists Congolese diamond miners expelled from Angola

MSF has sent an emergency team to Tembo health zone, Bandundu province in the south west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to provide assistance to Congolese 'garimpeiros' - illegal diamond miners - stranded there after expulsion from Angola. Project Update - 20 Feb 2004
 
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Armenia

MSF launches day center for mental health In Tchambarak

The 'Day Centers' aim to be a place for learning and mutual understanding to bridge the gap between MSF beneficiaries and society. Press Release - 20 Feb 2004
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Journey to the land the world forgot

The novelist Joanne Harris, a long-term supporter of MSF, visited Congo-Brazzaville to write an article for a British newspaper on MSF's work there. In the Media - 19 Feb 2004
 
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Bolivia

Bolivia's bug killers: Preventing the spread of Chagas

This bug spreads Chagas disease - endemic to Central and South America. There is treatment but it is not a vaccine. Once cured of an infection, a second can arrive the same day. The bug thrives in the straw and mud homes that are commonplace in rural areas. The disease may not take hold for up to 15 years after infection and can be fatal. Project Update - 18 Feb 2004
 
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Sudan

Massive aid urgently needed in Darfur

Although 600,000 people have been displaced, the volume of assistance and the number of humanitarian actors are still too weak. Press Release - 17 Feb 2004
 
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Thailand

Two people with HIV/AIDS overturn AIDS drug patent

The recent court victory of two Thai people with HIV/AIDS against a multinational pharmaceutical company is described in an article published in today's Lancet medical journal. Press Release - 13 Feb 2004
 
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Haiti

MSF is starting medical intervention in hospital Port-au-Prince

MSF has identified three hospitals where volunteers may be able to provide support on an impartial basis. The intention of the collaboration with these hospitals is to enable the provision of free care for those who cannot pay. Project Update - 11 Feb 2004
 
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Malaria

Malaria project

Registration of two artesunate-based combination therapies for use in endemic countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Drugs to reach patients by 2006. Project Update - 7 Feb 2004
 
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Uganda

MSF assists hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Amuria, Lira and Gulu

In this atmosphere of terror, civilians are forced to choose between staying and risking another attack that could cost them their lives, or fleeing to urban areas that cannot offer them even the minimum conditions necessary to survive. Press Release - 3 Feb 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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