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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 Websites

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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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MSF Response Measles Vaccination (Am Timan District)
Content Portal

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No way home for Ituri s refugees in Uganda
Democratic Republic of Congo

The daily struggles of Ituri’s refugees

Voices from the Field 5 Apr 2018
 
Cholera outbreak in Yemen
Yemen

A timeline of more than three years of war

Project Update 4 Apr 2018
 
Raqqa
Photo Story

Raqqa - The hidden deadly threat

4 Apr 2018
Photo Story
 
Broken childhood - Demining urgently needed in Deir ez-Zor
Syria

Patient numbers double in northeast as more people return home to landmines

Project Update 3 Apr 2018
 
Journal article

Breast tuberculosis in men: A systematic review

3 Apr 2018
Journal article
 
North Yemen: living under daily coalition airstrikes
Yemen

Pledging conference – money alone is not enough

Statement 3 Apr 2018
 
Damaged buildings in Diyala, Iraq
Iraq

Isolated, angry, anxious and stressed - mental health in Iraq

Voices from the Field 2 Apr 2018
 
Rubber boat is waiting for a rescue
Mediterranean migration

MSF Evacuates 39 Vulnerable People From Packed Rubber Boat

Statement 1 Apr 2018
 
Journal article

Global programmatic use of bedaquiline and delamanid for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

1 Apr 2018
Journal article
 
Journal article

Tuberculosis in Visceral Leishmaniasis-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Coinfection: An Evidence Gap in Improving Patient Outcomes?

1 Apr 2018
Journal article
 
Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Community
Bangladesh

Three questions about sexual violence against Rohingya refugees

Voices from the Field 1 Apr 2018
 
Syria

Letter to the doctors of East Ghouta

Voices from the Field 28 Mar 2018
 
Syria

Two airstrikes cause a mass-casualty influx in a MSF supported hospital

Press Release 23 Mar 2018
 
Fighting in Ituri province
Democratic Republic of Congo

Stories of flight across Lake Albert

Project Update 23 Mar 2018
 
Journal article

Tackling mortality due to childhood tuberculosis

23 Mar 2018
Journal article
 
TB programs in Gulf Province and Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea

Bringing TB treatment closer to home

Project Update 23 Mar 2018
 
Insein clinic, for treatment for HIV, TB, and Hepatitis C in Yangon. By Alessandro Penso, Feb 2018.
Photo Story

Myanmar: treating HIV, TB, and hepatitis C in Insein clinic, Yangon

23 Mar 2018
Photo Story
 
Insein clinic, for treatment for HIV, TB, and Hepatitis C in Yangon. By Alessandro Penso, Feb 2018.
Tuberculosis

“An obvious, urgent focus for MSF”

Voices from the Field 22 Mar 2018
 
The impossibility of hope: Asylum seekers still stranded in Greece
Photo Story

"Stolen hope" – Asylum seekers still stranded in Greece

22 Mar 2018
Photo Story
 
War-Weary South Sudanese find emergency medical care in Ethiopia
Ethiopia

War-weary South Sudanese find emergency medical care

Voices from the Field 21 Mar 2018
 
99 Survivors Rescued Sinking in Mediterranean Sea - Many Presumed Drowned
Mediterranean migration

European governments are obstructing lifesaving rescues and returning people to unsafe Libya

Statement 21 Mar 2018
 
Living Conditions in Lesbos, Greece
Türkiye

Two years on, deal continues to fail thousands of people seeking asylum

Statement 16 Mar 2018
 
Living Conditions in Lesbos, Greece
Greece

MSF activity update – March 2018

Project Update 16 Mar 2018
 
Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Community
Rohingya refugee crisis

Crisis update - March 2018

Crisis Update 15 Mar 2018
MSF Logistique - Bordeaux
How we work

How we deliver medical humanitarian assistance

Everywhere we work, the circumstances are unique. Nonetheless, our programmes generally follow a common set of practices designed to make sure our resources and expertise are used to maximum effect.
 

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