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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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Europe & Central Asia

 
A group of Yemeni and Palestinians on the move
Europe & Central Asia

Poland

Find out more on the latest MSF medical humanitarian activities in Poland.
 
Europe & Central Asia

Romania

Learn more about our activities in Romania.
 
TB Dispensary Arkhangelsk, Northern Russia
Europe & Central Asia

Russia

In Russia, we ran tuberculosis programmes, offered healthcare to vulnerable people, and provided care to refugees and displaced people.
 
Europe & Central Asia

Serbia

Since 2014, we have provided medical and psychological assistance channels for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Serbia.

19,700

outpatient consultations

320

people treated for intentional physical violence
 
Slovenia: People on transit urgently need assistance
Europe & Central Asia

Slovenia

In 2015, MSF supported the Slovenian Ministry of Health at the Brežice transit centre on the border with Croatia, providing around-the-clock medical assistance to migrants and refugees entering the country along the Balkan route.
 
MSF Intervention in Leganés
Europe & Central Asia

Spain

MSF activities in Spain.
 
Lundsbrunn asylum centre in Götene
Europe & Central Asia

Sweden

In 2017, MSF provided humanitarian support to asylum seekers in Sweden’s Västra Götaland county.
 
COVID-19 response in Intensive care unit of HUG
Europe & Central Asia

Switzerland

MSF's activities in Switzerland.
 
Paediatric TB Care - Dushanbe
Europe & Central Asia

Tajikistan

We are working with the Tajikistan Ministry of Health and Social Protection to diagnose and treat children with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB).

200

people started on treatment for MDR-TB
 
MSF providing health care to Syrian refugees in Turkey
Europe & Central Asia

Türkiye

Türkiye hosts the largest refugee population in the world – over four million – of whom 3.7 million are Syrian.

49,300

litres of chlorinated water distributed

33,700

families received relief items

6,880

individual mental health consultations

160

latrines built
 
Europe & Central Asia

Turkmenistan

MSF closed its projects in Turkmenistan in 2009.
 
Ukraine - First train referral
Europe & Central Asia

Ukraine

As war continues in Ukraine, we are responding to people impacted by the fighting.

167,000

outpatient consultations

21,900

individual mental health consultations

1,300

patients evacuated by medical train