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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 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 in Gaza:: find out how we're responding
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Timor-Leste

MSF stands ready to return to East Timor

All MSF teams in Jakarta, Indonesia and Darwin, Australia are awaiting authorisation to re-enter East Timor to begin operations with the victims of the East Timorese crisis. There was a meeting in Jakarta today of NGOs readying to return to Dili and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). OCHA will be coordinating relief activities from Darwin. Project Update - 15 Sep 1999
 
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Women's health

Female genital cutting

MSF strongly opposes the practice of any form of female circumcision on the basis of the contravention of human rights which the practice represents, and its adverse health consequences. Project Update - 13 Sep 1999
 
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Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Millions for Kosovo victims while African state is ignored

While Western governments are spending millions on the rebuilding of Kosovo, the starvation and poverty of over 650,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) people that have been forced from their homes by a war that has been raging for over three years is largely ignored. Frances Stevenson reports on the needs of the people and their hopes for the future Project Update - 9 Sep 1999
 
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Republic of Congo

Marburg virus outbreak in the Congo

From the Summer edition of DISPATCHES (UK office), this article was prepared by Frances Stevenson, Programme Manager for the UK office of MSF Project Update - 9 Sep 1999
 
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Timor-Leste

MSF readies itself for further action

The MSF teams that were expelled from East Timor are safe in Darwin, Australia and have made it clear they would like to return to East Timor as soon as possible. The only place for direct action, at the current time, is through West Timor. Project Update - 9 Sep 1999
 
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Timor-Leste

Surgical team expelled from East Timor

All MSF ex-pat staff recently based in East Timor are now safe in Darwin, Australia. The Dili staff were expelled previously. Press Release - 7 Sep 1999
 
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Timor-Leste

MSF reiterates its medical mandate and remains in East Timor

Up to 17,000 people have crossed the border in West Timor since recent activities broke out. According to the ICRC, there were 300 people per hour crossing the border on Sunday (September 5). For the most part, the people crossing the border are Indonesian civil servants and their families. They are travelling in cars and buses. Project Update - 6 Sep 1999
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Measles epidemic hits district in Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF starts vaccination programme Project Update - 2 Sep 1999
 
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Liberia

MSF statement on abduction

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) confirms the abduction of two of their colleagues in Liberia yesterday morning August 11, 1999 when nurse Irene Martino and logistician Trond Heldaas were taken hostage by armed people and conducted to an unknown place. Irene Martino is Italian, 34, and had previously worked in South Sudan. Statement - 12 Aug 1999
 
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Albania

Problems to be faced clearing mines in Albania

Project Update - 11 Aug 1999
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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