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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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Our offices around the world
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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Sierra Leone

MSF reports health crisis at Mile 91

The international humanitarian medical organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely concerned about the deteriorating security and health situation in Mile 91, a town 50 kilometers south west of Makeni in northern Sierra Leone. Beginning in May, tens of thousands of people were forcibly displaced to Mile 91 and its environs from the towns of Makeni, Magburuka and other surrounding villages. Project Update - 19 Jul 2000
 
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Sierra Leone

Growing concern on fate of Mile 91 IDP's

In a press release and report released July 14, MSF has demanded attention for the desperate plight of IDP's in Sierra Leone - and concluding that most of the tens of thousands of people displaced by recent fighting fled from attacks carried out by government helicopter gunships. Project Update - 19 Jul 2000
 
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Bosnia-Herzegovina

Who was responsible for the fall of Srebrenica?

An appeal from MSF for the creation of a parliamentry commission to lead an enquiry into French responsibility in the fall of Srebrenica. Project Update - 13 Jul 2000
 
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Sierra Leone

Civilians flee renewed fighting at Mile 91

Fighting broke out once more on Wednesday, June 28, around Mile 91 - a town in the central part of Sierra Leone - between rebels and the government army. This was followed by the heavy shelling of a neighbouring village seven kilometres away from Mile 91. A large part of the population, and the 40,000 displaced people in Mile 91, fled in panic towards the south. Project Update - 7 Jul 2000
 
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Sudan

MSF Survey: Alarming malnutrition rates in Western Upper Nile, southern Sudan

The international medical organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for urgent nutritional intervention in Padeah District, Western Upper Nile (WUN), southern Sudan, following a nutritional survey conducted in the area by MSF in June. Press Release - 6 Jul 2000
 
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Humanitarian challenges

Normalcy begins to creep

Project Update - 5 Jul 2000
 
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Nigeria

Cholera breaks out in Kano

Cholera has broken out in the northern Nigerian state of Kano. The first cases were seen in mid-May but the outbreak exploded in the last few weeks, with over 300 cases reported by MSF and the State Ministry of Health in the last week of June. By the end of June there were over 1,200 cases and 23 deaths. Project Update - 5 Jul 2000
 
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Humanitarian challenges

A Meditation on Evil

Since 1971, Médecins sans frontières has been confronting atrocity In the Media - 1 Jul 2000
 
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Indonesia

Ambon - Tens of thousands beyond humanitarian reach

MSF calls for immediate access to the population affected by the ongoing civil war in Ambon. Tens of thousands are beyond the help of aid agencies, hospitals running out of supplies. Press Release - 27 Jun 2000
 
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South Sudan

MSF responds to emergency in Bieh State

The south Sudanese state of Beih, in south-eastern Upper Nile on the border with Ethiopia, is being struck by several severe health and nutritional problems at once. The area, about the size of Belgium, is currently experiencing an exceptionally bad hunger period, exacerbated by a meningitis epidmic, outbreaks of shigella and a lack of health services. Press Release - 27 Jun 2000
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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