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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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War in Gaza:: find out how we're responding
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Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
Bourbon Argos Search and Rescue Operations November 2016
Mediterranean migration

10 things you need to know about the Mediterranean crisis

Project Update 2 Dec 2016
 
Rwanda

Interview with the authors of "Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Mass Killings"

Interview 1 Dec 2016
 
Journal article

Engaging with National Authorities: Médecins Sans Frontières’s experience in Guinea during the Ebola epidemic

30 Nov 2016
Journal article
 
Falling into the gap HIV+ adolescents - WAD 2016
Myanmar

Don't let adolescents with HIV slip away

Project Update 29 Nov 2016
 
East Aleppo
Syria

Crisis update — 28 November 2016

Crisis Update 29 Nov 2016
 
Pregnancy in east Aleppo
Syria

Pregnancy and childbirth in besieged east Aleppo

Voices from the Field 29 Nov 2016
 
Epworth Clinic Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe

A decade later in Epworth, life grows

Voices from the Field 28 Nov 2016
 
Syria

Alarm bells ringing on mass casualty numbers in Damascus and Homs regions

Project Update 25 Nov 2016
 
Visit Dolo Ado
Ethiopia

Refugees in border town of Dolo Ado escape drought and insecurity of Somalia

Project Update 25 Nov 2016
 
Syria

Perhaps we should live underground to survive

Voices from the Field 25 Nov 2016
 
Responding to malnutrition and malaria peak in southern Niger
Niger

Sharp increase in malaria cases in recent months

Project Update 25 Nov 2016
 
HIV Patient - Mashiri and Duduzile Community Antiretroviral Groups
Photo Story

Surviving AIDS in Zimbabwe

25 Nov 2016
Photo Story
 
Home insulin programme - Abyei - South Soudan
South Sudan

Bringing diabetes treatment home

Voices from the Field 25 Nov 2016
 
Book

Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings

23 Nov 2016
Book
 
Syrian Refugees Stranded in the "Berm" Jordan/Syria Border
Jordan

Winter will bring even more desperate living conditions for over 75,000 Syrians stranded at the 'Berm'

Project Update 22 Nov 2016
 
Newly renovated ICU Opens at Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospital
Iraq

Newly renovated intensive care unit opens at Sulaymaniyah emergency hospital

Project Update 21 Nov 2016
 
Iraq, Mossul, Surgical Field Hospital
Iraq

As fighting intensifies, MSF bolsters response around Mosul

Project Update 21 Nov 2016
 
East Aleppo
Syria

Multiple direct and indirect hits on hospitals in east Aleppo in the last 48 hours

Project Update 19 Nov 2016
 
Tanzania Refugee Crisis - November 2016
Photo Story

"Tanzania - Aid is needed before situation deteriorates"

18 Nov 2016
Photo Story
 
Living Conditions in Taiz - Yemen
Yemen

76 wounded and at least 21 dead in Taiz on the first day of the newly announced ceasefire

Project Update 18 Nov 2016
 
Ngala, Nigeria: Emergency aid to victims of violence and displacement
Nigeria

Crisis Info on Borno emergency - November 2016

Crisis Update 18 Nov 2016
 
MSF outpatient department in Carnot
Central African Republic

Don't turn off the life support

Project Update 17 Nov 2016
 
East Aleppo
Syria

Hospital bombings in east Aleppo force staff to move children and premature babies to basement for shelter

Project Update 17 Nov 2016
 
Uganda overwhelmed as tens of thousands flee violence in South Sudan
Uganda

Testimonies from Bidi Bidi refugee camp

Voices from the Field 17 Nov 2016
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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