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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
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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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Neglected diseases

Reflection and Reaction: Drugs for neglected diseases

Sleeping sickness drugs were developed during colonial times. Malaria causes over two million deaths every year, yet antimalarial drugs were made primarily for the colonial administration, western tourists, and the military. Project Update - 27 Jul 2002
 
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Angola

Measles vaccinations in second stage of MSF action in Angola

In weakened and concentrated populations, measles can spread quickly and have deadly consequences. Vaccination programmes are a core part of MSF activity in emergencies with malnourished populations. Project Update - 26 Jul 2002
 
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Russia

Chechen displaced remain under pressure

With life becoming more unbearable every day, the Chechen displaced are left with two choices: live in a twilight zone as an unregistered displaced person, or accept returning to an unsafe and devastated Chechnya. Project Update - 26 Jul 2002
 
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Liberia

Increased violence in Liberia brings new exodus

MSF is sending specialists to Guinea to assist the field teams and to advise on humanitarian issues, in order to provide refugees and the displaced with some legal protection, along with the medical care already in place. Project Update - 26 Jul 2002
 
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Burundi

Cholera epidemic within displaced near Bujumbura

As of July 22, MSF has treated a total of 359 confirmed cases; so far five have died. Project Update - 24 Jul 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

First round of payments from the Global Fund

In her May 4 news item, Sarah Ramsay reports that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria falls lamentably short of the US$7-10 billion per year that the UN has estimated is necessary to tackle HIV/AIDS alone. Project Update - 20 Jul 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

Time to make the Global Fund global

The fiscal atmosphere in Barcelona was thus an appropriate backdrop to Richard Feachem's first speech as Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, since he used this opportunity to announce the development of the Fund's long-awaited financial plan. Project Update - 20 Jul 2002
 
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Humanitarian challenges

Humanitarian action must not be a tool of political interests

The Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR) is very clear about the need to disentangle humanitarian assistance from politics by reclaiming both humanitarian space and the core principles of impartiality and independence. Project Update - 18 Jul 2002
 
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Angola

Mavinga Town - a face to the Angolan crisis

Just 300 kms from Menogue in southern Angola, Mavinga is a remote town with little save a dry river bed and some aid. The best method for entry is by plane and even that has complications as refueling to leave is not always an option. Project Update - 12 Jul 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

Not owning a watch does not prevent effective AIDS treatment

Fred Minandi, a farmer, is one of the patients in Malawi taking ARV treatment for AIDS through an MSF project. Speaking at the AIDS Conference, he challenged one of the key myths of providing proper treatment to people in Africa - that Africans cannot tell the time. Project Update - 11 Jul 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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