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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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Democratic Republic of Congo

Illusion of protection can do more harm than good

Illusion of protection can do more harm than good Press Release - 25 Jul 2003
 
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Liberia

MSF report chronicles stories of Liberians caught in ongoing violent conflict

Arbitrary violence, rape and displacement have become commonplace for them. Now the recent fighting has worsened their situation," said an MSF spokeperson. Press Release - 23 Jul 2003
 
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Angola

MSF assists in repatriation of 440,000 Moxico refugees after 27 years of civil war in Angola

"Not only does the poor quality of the transport routes hamper our work - especially in rainy season - but there are 9-12 million landmines still littering Angola. That is more than one landmine per person. And as a result, access to the people most in need is extremely limited," said an MSF spokesperson. Project Update - 22 Jul 2003
 
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HIV/AIDS

AIDS treatment scale-up efforts threatened

AIDS treatment scale-up efforts threatened. Press Release - 16 Jul 2003
 
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Guatemala

Congressional decree in Guatemala hinders access to medicines

The decree bans the drug regulatory agency from using an originators' product data - which is necessary when giving the equivalent generic version approval. Press Release - 14 Jul 2003
 
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Côte d'Ivoire

Health crisis threatens western Côte d'Ivoire

Persistent insecurity in the region has prevented cultivation and there are fears that the population has now missed an entire growing season. Food distributions undertaken by the authorities and responsible international organisations have thus far been limited. Press Release - 10 Jul 2003
 
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Côte d'Ivoire

Malnutrition, violence and displacement in western Côte d'Ivoire

"I am P. and I come from a village near Ity. One day, soldiers speaking French and English came to our village and started killing the men. I managed to flee into the bush with my husband and child. The next day we returned and I saw the corpses of my brothers. They had been tied up and had their throats slit. We were hiding in the bush for two weeks. We would keep moving all the time and gave our child whatever we found to eat, in order to keep her quiet. We were scared that her crying would attract attention and that we would be attacked again." Voices from the Field - 10 Jul 2003
 
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Côte d'Ivoire

The collapse of healthcare, malnutrition, violence and displacement in western Côte d’Ivoire

In the mobile clinics, MSF is seeing many severely malnourished children who emerge from the bush as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). On the other side of the problem, the response to malnutrition has been seriously insufficient. MSF is concerned that its observations made during clinic activities are only a muted reflection of the reality beyond what is learned from consultations. To date there have been no other in-depth assessments of malnutrition patterns in the West. Report - 10 Jul 2003
 
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Turkmenistan

Dashoguzd: Little optimism in Turkmenistan's TB wards

Masks are hurriedly being handed out at the doorway of the tuberculosis sanatorium. Down the long dark corridor you can see the silhouettes of patients shuffling back to their rooms; ladies with mops and buckets of foul-smelling disinfectant appear out of nowhere and we are ushered in. Into the world of the category two failure and the chronic tuberculosis patient, the category four: the suspect "drug-resistants". Crammed into a room, the rusty iron beds touch one another. Project Update - 9 Jul 2003
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

War or health: Humanitarian crisis worsens in war-torn Congo

In some villages the people are living in the most basic conditions and extremely emaciated people are found, locally they are called the 'living skeletons'. This boy is 18 years old and is suffering from severe malnutrition. Project Update - 9 Jul 2003
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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