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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 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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Somalia

Crisis far from over

Although media attention has faded, Somalia remains in the grip of a major humanitarian crisis. This is strikingly clear from the reports of the patients and staff of MSF. They continue daily battles to save lives in areas where violence, disease and malnutrition continue to threaten the lives and well-being of tens of thousands. Project Update - 25 May 2012
 
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Somalia

Aid to displaced persons still insufficient in Mogadishu

Since July, more than 150,000 Somalis have left the provinces of the country's central region seeking refuge in Mogadishu. This kind of exodus poses a host of health problems. Measles is currently the greatest threat and MSF is mobilized to halt the spread of this disease which is particularly fatal for children. Press Release - 11 Oct 2011
 
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Somalia

Responding to Greater Needs in Galgaduud

In large parts of south and central Somalia, where malnutrition rates are high, ongoing conflict makes it difficult for international organisations like MSF to operate at full capacity. Where we can work, our doctors face immense pressure due to the large numbers of people who need emergency assistance. Project Update - 2 Sep 2011
 
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Access to medicines

GAVI money welcome but could it be more wisely spent?

MSF well knows the importance of immunisation, and its teams of doctors and nurses vaccinate around 10 million children in the developing world each year. But cash donated by governments means cash donated by taxpayers, and therefore it is right to ask unpleasant questions. Project Update - 14 Jun 2011
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

'Measles epidemic spiralling out of control' according to MSF

Over the past six months a measles epidemic has been sweeping through the Democratic Republic of Congo. MSF is raising the alarm and calling for concerted action to halt the spread of the disease. Project Update - 28 Mar 2011
 
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Ethiopia

In Imey Somali region Ethiopia distance to health care is often overwhelming

'Our health clinic is the closest place to go'
In August 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started working in Imey, in the Somali region of Ethiopia. In this interview, returning field coordinator, Christian Sorensen, talks about his experience and explains why it is important that MSF is working there today. Project Update - 14 Sep 2010
 
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South Sudan

MSF increases capacity in response to kala azar outbreak in South Sudan

MSF has set up an additional base in Pagil in Jonglei State in South Sudan to expand its capacity in dealing with an alarming increase in the number of patients infected with kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis). Project Update - 23 Aug 2010
 
Kala Azar treatment in Fulbaria
Bangladesh

Hope for kala azar sufferers in Bangladesh

Health ministers from Nepal, India and Bangladesh, where the disease is endemic, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in May 2005, pledging to collaborate to eliminate kala azar from the region by 2015 in line with the Millennium Development Goals. Press Release - 18 Jun 2010
 
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Chad

MSF vaccinates 500,000 children against measles in N'Djamena Chad

The vaccination campaign was initially planned to end on April 6, but its length is extended, in cooperation with Chadian health authorities, to reach the needed level of coverage. Project Update - 12 Apr 2010
 
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Malnutrition

Rome food summit to fail if governments continue spending peanuts on childhood malnutrition

Funding by rich countries to combat malnutrition has remained flat for seven years, according to a report released today by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 11 Nov 2009
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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