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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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War and conflict

War on terrorism and humanitarianism

A culture of near-total impunity has developed where transgressions of international humanitarian law are overlooked by western governments and the media, as long as they are carried out by 'allies'. There is developing a clear message that prosecutions for violations of international humanitarian law clearly do not apply to the victors. Project Update - 9 Oct 2002
 
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Côte d'Ivoire

MSF reinforces team in Cote d'Ivoire and starts to deliver aid to Bouake

In the face of continued unrest, MSF has strengthened its team in the Ivory Coast in order to intervene in areas of conflict between rebels and government forces and in the main city, Abidjan. Project Update - 7 Oct 2002
 
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Tuberculosis

Little optimism in Turkmenistan's TB wards

Tuberculosis is one of the biggest global burdens on human health - not because the total number of cases is particularly large, but because about a quarter of sufferers die, most of them young adults. Project Update - 5 Oct 2002
 
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Palestine

Access to medical care in Jenin

As the crisis in the Palestinian Authority continues, the medical infrastructure has begun to unravel, with care to villages surrounding Jenin the most affected. Kevin Phelan, from MSF's New York office, witnessed the daily work of MSF teams escorting Palestinian doctors and nurses to health posts in 11 surrounding villages. Project Update - 4 Oct 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

Profiteers resell Africa's cheap Aids drugs

The Aids drugs were to be sold at significantly discounted prices to clinics in Senegal, Ivory Coast, the Republic of Congo, Togo and Guinea-Bissau under a scheme to offer some drugs at lower prices to poor countries agreed by Glaxo and four other drug companies with the World Health Organisation. But the shipment was diverted back to Europe by profiteering wholesalers as it arrived at the African airports or even earlier. The latest WHO figures show that only 27,000 have got access to the vital medicines through the two-year-old UN deal called Accelerated Access. Project Update - 4 Oct 2002
 
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Côte d'Ivoire

MSF reinforces its team and sends 10 tonnes of medical and logistical material to Côte d'Ivoire

In view of the recent fighting in Ivory Coast, the international medical aid agency MSF has decided to reinforce its team in the country, in order to be better prepared to intervene in the areas where rebel forces are fighting with the government army. Press Release - 30 Sep 2002
 
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Nicaragua

MSF starts a project to battle Chagas disease in Nicaragua

Médecins Sans Frontières has just launched a program to curb the spread of Chagas disease in the Nicaraguan district of Matagalpa, where 9.4% of school children between 7 and 14 have been found to be infected. Project Update - 27 Sep 2002
 
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Humanitarian challenges

The War on Terror's Challenges to Humanitarian Action

Nicolas de Torrente, Director of Medecins Sans Frontieres USA, wrote this personal perspective on the 'war on terror' and its consequences on humanitarianism, a year after the September 2001 attacks on the US. It was first published in Ethics & International Affairs, 2002 Volume 16, Number 2 -A journal of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Project Update - 27 Sep 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

MSF queries Pharma motives on AIDS in the Asia Pacific

Treatment access or market access? If the industry's current public-private partnership model is followed in the Asia Pacific, drug prices will likely remain much higher than those of generic manufacturers and far fewer people will have access to treatment. Press Release - 25 Sep 2002
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF/Red Cross reach isolated town of Fizi

A joint team of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Fizi local Red Cross society reached the isolated town of Fizi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last Wednesday. Press Release - 25 Sep 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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