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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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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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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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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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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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MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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Non Food Item distribution
South Sudan

Thousands at severe risk due to malnutrition and deadly diseases in Twic County

Sami Al-Subaihi, MSF emergency project coordinator in South Sudan, shares his urgent concerns for more than 20,000 people, who are at severe risk of malnutrition and deadly diseases in Twic County. Voices from the Field - 29 Jun 2022
 
Ain Issa IDPs Camp
Syria

Access to healthcare in northwest Syria at risk over potential border crossing closure

MSF calls on the United Nations Security Council to renew the cross-border resolution for the provision of humanitarian aid through the Bab Al-Hawa crossing point into northwest Syria. Project Update - 29 Jun 2022
 
Rotation 12 - Rescues 1
Mediterranean migration

At least 30 people feared dead after tragic rescue in the central Mediterranean

A pregnant woman has died and at least 30 people are missing after the partial sinking of a rubber boat in the central Mediterranean Sea, while MSF teams managed to bring 71 survivors to safety. Press Release - 28 Jun 2022
 
Burkina Faso - Access to health INTER
Burkina Faso

Enormous needs for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by ongoing conflict and insecurity

An urgent upscale in humanitarian funding is essential as 1.9 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Burkina Faso due to conflict. Project Update - 27 Jun 2022
 
Assessment team
Afghanistan

Deadly earthquake in Khost and Paktika leaves hundreds killed and thousands injured

Following an earthquake that struck Khost and Paktika provinces in Afghanistan, where hundreds of people have been killed and over a thousand wounded, we've sent response teams to the worst-affected areas. Project Update - 27 Jun 2022
 
Malnutrition emergency: mobile clinic in Ranobe
About MSF

MSF Heads of Communications commit to tackle problematic imagery

The Heads of Communications at MSF have committed to addressing and tackling issues of problematic imagery and how sensitive images are handled. Statement - 24 Jun 2022
 
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Ethiopia

Marking one year since the loss of María, Tedros and Yohannes

24 June 2022 marks one year since the brutal murder of three of our colleagues - María, Tedros and Yohannes - in Tigray, Ethiopia. We mourn them and continue to search for answers. Statement - 24 Jun 2022
 
Recovering from the Horror - Stories of torture victims in Mexico
Mexico

Recovering from the horror: restoring body and mind after torture

In Mexico, MSF provides comprehensive care to victims of torture or extreme violence at a centre dedicated to helping people recover and learn to live again. Interview - 23 Jun 2022
 
Doctors on Rails - MSF Medicalised train in Ukraine
War in Ukraine

No mercy for civilians - accounts from the MSF medical train

Between 31 March and 6 June 2022, MSF staff recorded data and the testimonies of people caught up in Ukraine's war and evacuted on our medical train. Report - 22 Jun 2022
 
Flooding in Unity State
Activity Report

Year in Review 2021

Read the Operations Directors' review of the activities and challenges faced by MSF teams in providing care in 2021. Opinion - 22 Jun 2022
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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