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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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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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War in Gaza:: find out how we're responding
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IDPs Gathering Site in Kassala, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

Displaced by war, people in eastern Sudan urgently need food, water and shelter

Displaced people in Kassala, eastern Sudan, experience limited access to food, clean water and healthcare services. The scale of the crisis demands urgent and coordinated action from the international community. Project Update - 26 Mar 2024
 
Rwanda

Rwandan genocide 25 years on: MSF caught in spiral of extreme violence from Rwanda to Zaire

Twenty-five years after the Rwandan genocide, MSF takes a look back at the events before, during, and after one of the most horrific events in human history, outlining what our teams witnessed on the ground in Rwanda and Zaire (now DRC). Voices from the Field - 5 Apr 2019
 
Diagnosing, treating and researching HIV-kala azar co-infection
Kala azar

Diagnosing, treating and researching HIV-kala azar co-infection in Ethiopia

MSF teams in Abdurafi, Ethiopia, talk about the challenges of diagnosing and treating kala azar in people living with HIV, and are collaborating on research into ways to better understand and prevent the neglected tropical disease. Project Update - 20 Sep 2018
 
Uganda overwhelmed as tens of thousands flee violence in South Sudan
Uganda

Country overwhelmed as tens of thousands flee violence in South Sudan

Crisis Update - 15 Nov 2016
 
Rwanda

Rwanda, 20 years later: “I am left with a great sadness”

Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol pays tribute to hundreds of murdered Rwandan MSF colleagues. Voices from the Field - 28 Apr 2014
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

Open letter: let us treat patients in Syria

In an open letter published on Monday 16 September 2013, a coalition of over 50 eminent doctors warns of a medical catastrophe in Syria and calls for medical and humanitarian access to those suffering. Open Letter - 16 Sep 2013
 
Emergency intervention in the Transit camp of Bubukwanga
Uganda

MSF increases assistance to refugees fleeing violence in DRC

MSF is providing urgently needed medical care and water and sanitation in western Uganda, following an influx of tens of thousands of refugees fleeing insecurity in North Kivu, DRC, in mid-July. Project Update - 27 Aug 2013
 
Pakistan

Working for the best, preparing for the worst

In the aftermath of any disaster suddenly hitting a population, the immediate impact in terms of deaths and injuries is often followed by other health risks that can be linked to difficult living conditions, lack of hygiene and restricted access to clean water and basic health care services. The recent Pakistan floods are no exception; presently, MSF and others are working hard to avoid outbreaks of disease and to provide essential health care to a population in need. Project Update - 17 Aug 2010
 
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Papua New Guinea

Rare instance of cholera in Papua New Guinea brings challenges in raising awareness about treatment and prevention

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), already working in Lae, the provincial capital, was able to mobilise quickly and assist the Ministry of Health in responding to the outbreak. Project Update - 17 Sep 2009
 
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Haiti

Receding floodwaters leave new health threats in Gonaïves

Since its arrival in Gonaïves on September 4, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have carried out 2,329 medical consultations at the Raboteau Health Center - which MSF helped restore following the tropical storms and hurricanes that devastated much of the city in late August and early September - and has been operating mobile clinics out of shelters, schools and some orphanages in Gonaïves. Project Update - 26 Sep 2008
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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