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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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Thailand

Thailand court forces reversal of drug firm antiretroviral patent

This article first appeared in The A court in Thailand has removed the exclusive right of pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) to manufacture the antiretroviral didanosine (ddI) by ruling that its patent only covered tablets containing 5-100 mg of didanosine. Project Update - 19 Oct 2002
 
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Afghanistan

Outbreak of malaria in Afghan province of Badghis

Project Update - 18 Oct 2002
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Cholera spreading rapidly

MSF is increasing awareness campaigns for the local population in the hope of curbing the spread of the disease. Project Update - 18 Oct 2002
 
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Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Border Stories: Imagine leaving your home and never coming back

MSF is presenting 'Border Stories', an exhibition of objects belonging to ten of the world's refugees. Project Update - 17 Oct 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

Thai agency will begin production of drug for Aids

Last week, Thai Aids activists filed an additional lawsuit in Thailand challenging Bristol's patent over the drug on the grounds that the medicine lacks sufficient innovation to warrant patent protection. Project Update - 17 Oct 2002
 
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Angola

Weak states in Africa - Angola: MSF statement to US Senate Subcommittee

Statement by Dr Morten Rostrup, International Council President of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on October 16, 2002 to the US Committee on Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs. Statement - 16 Oct 2002
 
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Afghanistan

Afghanistan at one year

This year, over 1.5 million Afghans have already come back to their homeland. No-one had anticipated such high figures. All these people need food, shelter, drinking water and jobs. The country is nowhere near able to handle this. Many have simply exchanged one calamitous situation for another and are desperately searching for any means of survival - also in the South, where the persistent drought creates further complications. Project Update - 16 Oct 2002
 
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Côte d'Ivoire

MSF prepares for possible refugee flows from Ivory Coast

"People in these kind of situations are very vulnerable .. (so) our medical teams will keep a close eye on the refugees in the transit camp to check their living conditions and to signal possible problems with protection, violence or abuses of any kind." - Jan Weuts, MSF Coordinator, Brussels. Project Update - 16 Oct 2002
 
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Indonesia

MSF opens first AIDS care programme in Indonesia

The geography around Merauke makes transport and communication very difficult and time consuming. It can take between two hours by road to two days by boat to reach certain areas of the district. Project Update - 16 Oct 2002
 
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Mental health

Mental health care crucial in emergency situations

A recent article published on September 6, 2002 in the National Post (Canada) questioned the usefulness of trauma counseling. For Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), psychosocial programmes are not only an essential response to human suffering but are part of an integrated approach for medical care. Project Update - 14 Oct 2002
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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