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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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China

Urgent appeal for the protection of North Korean refugees in China

The humanitarian aid workers who attempt to rescue North Korean refugees face the brutal determination of the Chinese authorities, who deem the assistance of North Korean refugees as a criminal offense... Predictably, in this context, support for North Korean refugees in distress is diminishing and assisting them has become a challenge that increasingly few aid organizations, crushed by this sanction policy, are able to undertake. Press Release - 20 Jan 2003
 
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Brazil

New MSF project starts in Rio de Janeiro slum

MSF is opening a clinic in the Marcilio Dias slum, north of Rio de Janeira, Brazil, to improve access to primary health care and psychosocial support for the local community. Project Update - 17 Jan 2003
 
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Access to medicines

MSF calls to WHO's attention outstanding issues on access to medicines

MSF continues its strong collaborations with the WHO in a number of areas germane to this crisis in Research and Development (R&D). Project Update - 17 Jan 2003
 
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South Africa

With all his life: South Africa's hero

Zackie Achmat is an AIDS activist in South Africa who is the leader of the South African NGO 'Treatment Action Campaign' (TAC) as well as one of the key persons working alongside MSF in the development of treatment for people with AIDS in South Africa. He has refused to take any treatment for his HIV/AIDS condition until everyone in South Africa can. In this profile carried in the International Herald Tribune, we see more on the man Nelson Mandela has called his 'hero'. Project Update - 16 Jan 2003
 
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Angola

Mussende's prison now serves as health post

In the second of two parts, MSF teams have entered Mussende by dugout canoes and bicyles. They now find the local prison is serving as the only medical facility. But it is cold, dark and lacking either medicines or supplies. Despite all this, there are small signs the country is changing for the better. Project Update - 15 Jan 2003
 
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Belgium

MSF opposes cooperation between the humanitarian sector and the military - aid workers have to be impartial

The United States is already working together with UN agencies and NGOs so as to plan how to deal with the humanitarian consequences of a conflict in Iraq. Behind this apparently noble aim lurks a great danger, warns Tine Dusauchoit, Director General of Médecins Sans Frontières- Belgium. Project Update - 14 Jan 2003
 
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Angola

Dug out canoes and bicycles bring MSF team to Mussende

Reaching remote populations often has logistical difficulties, and solutions used by MSF to reach remote populations often break from the norm. When MSF teams in Angola tried to reach the people in and around Mussende, vehicles were out of the question. All bridges to the region had long since been destroyed and alternative road travel was too far and too long. Instead, the team used a combination of dug-out canoes and bicycles to travel the 85 kilometers to the isolated region. This contact would be the first of any aid reaching Mussende in years. Project Update - 13 Jan 2003
 
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Côte d'Ivoire

Hospital and health structures in rebel held area of Ivory Coast assisted by MSF

While sporadic fighting continues in Ivory Coast, MSF is covering medical needs in Korhogo in the northern part of Ivory Coast - the rebel held area of the country. Project Update - 9 Jan 2003
 
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Republic of Congo

Congo clashes force new exodus of 35,000

Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) said it feared this brought the total number of people displaced by fighting in the area in recent months to an estimated 155,000. Project Update - 4 Jan 2003
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Continued fighting in Ituri forces another 35,000 to flee

Large areas remain inaccessible to humanitarian aid as fighting and violence
rage on. Despite the recent peace accords and ceasefire agreements, the on-going war in
eastern Congo is still severing tens of thousands of civilians from all medical and
emergency relief. Press Release - 4 Jan 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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