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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 Websites

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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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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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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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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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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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MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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7591 Results
 
Surayo with her son Zainidin
Tajikistan

Helping kids to beat TB in Tajikistan

Tuberculosis in children can be especially hard to diagnose and treat. In Tajikistan, MSF teams are working with families to help ease the burden of treatment on kids. Project Update - 23 Mar 2022
 
Lita's general hospital
Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence and sense of impunity force stop to lifesaving care

Violence in parts of Ituri province, DRC, has forced our teams to withdraw from two locations as local authorities and warring parties remain non-committal in protecting medical staff. Press Release - 21 Mar 2022
 
Venezuelan Migrants in Peru
Central American migration

Peru: Venezuelan migrants struggle to survive

Political tensions and economic hardships have caused more than 6 million people to leave their homes in Venezuela in recent years. Many are young families, walking and traveling by bus or truck, carrying their belongings in backpacks. Project Update - 18 Mar 2022
 
MSF surgeon in Okhmatdyt hospital, Kyiv
War in Ukraine

Staff in major Kyiv hospital receive training for potential increase in casualties

In anticipation of a potential increase in war-wounded patients, staff from a major hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, have received training from MSF war surgeons. Project Update - 18 Mar 2022
 
MSF Clinic: inpatient department and surgical capacity, Gogrial, Warrap State. South Sudan
Ethiopia

MSF seeks answers from government after new media report on killing of staff

MSF urges the Ethiopian government to respond to reports that military members were responsible for the killing of MSF staff in Tigray, Ethiopia


Statement - 17 Mar 2022
 
MSF Speaking Out

Level 1 Course: How does Speaking Out Articulate with MSF’s Working Humanitarian Principles?

The central thematic includes concepts such as:
• speaking out
• humanitarian imperative
• international humanitarian framework
• medical ethics including do no harm and solidarity
• working humanitarian principles such as impartiality, neutrality, and independence. - 17 Mar 2022
 
"Even war has rules” - Press Briefing
MSF Speaking Out

Speaking Out Case Study Learning Modules

The MSF Speaking Out Case Study (SOCS) Learning Modules provide a suite of interactive training tools and multimedia learning opportunities that further increase understandings of speaking out dilemmas, constraints, and controversies detailed in the speaking out case studies. Modules are designed for introductory and advanced levels.
To learn from the case study dilemmas, the teaching methodology employs conceptual and empirical elements including an introduction to speaking out and the speaking out case studies, humanitarian thematics, case study timelines, post-action analysis, and reflections. Advanced modules offer facilitated sessions for in-depth examination of the issues.

The aim is to ground and impart critical thinking and analysis skills regarding MSF’s speaking out experience to a new generation of humanitarian actors.
 - 17 Mar 2022
 
Irpin
War in Ukraine

War in Ukraine has displaced me twice and I’m on the road again

The war in Ukraine has once again forced Aleksandr, an MSF staff member, to leave his home in Ukraine. Voices from the Field - 16 Mar 2022
 
Every day thousands of Ukrainians arrive in Slovakia - traumatised and exhausted
War in Ukraine

Every day thousands of Ukrainians arrive in Slovakia – traumatised and exhausted

Around 10,000 Ukrainians are arriving in Slovakia every day, exhausted and traumatised after fleeing the war. Our project coordinator describes the situation on the ground. Interview - 14 Mar 2022
 
Ukrainian refugees in Palanca
War in Ukraine

Thousands of people flee bombings in south Ukraine and head west

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have arrived in Moldova, heading west, after fleeing bombs and violence in Mykolayiv, Ukraine. Project Update - 12 Mar 2022
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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