Skip to main content
en ع
Work With MSF MSF websites
English العربية
About us
What We Do
Where we work
Ressources
Latest
Donate
Donate
Back to main menu

About us

Who We Are
Cholera intervention in South Kivu

Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are.

Learn more
How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

Learn more How we work
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.

Learn more How we're run
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.

Learn more Reports and financials
Contact us

Visit this section to get in touch with our offices around the world.

Learn more Contact us

What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

View all topics Activities by country
Featured Climate emergency War in Ukraine HIV/AIDS
Medical Activities
MSF Measles Vaccination in DRC

Learn about how, why, and where MSF teams respond to different diseases around the world, and the challenges we face in providing treatment.

Learn more
Crisis Settings
Aden besieged

Learn about the different contexts and situations in which MSF teams respond to provide care, including war and natural disaster settings, and how and why we adapt our activities to each.

Learn more
In Focus
COVID-19 Project in Mons, Belgium

Learn about our response and our work in depth on specific themes and events.

Learn more

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.

View all countries
Featured Ukraine Lebanon Bangladesh
Africa
Africa
Somalia, Cameroon, Nigeria
+ 35 More
Asia & Pacific
Asia & Pacific
Philippines, Kiribati, Pakistan
+ 20 More
Middle East & North Africa
Middle East & North Africa
Syria, Yemen, Palestine
+ 10 More
Europe & Central Asia
Europe & Central Asia
Türkiye, Lithuania, Poland
+ 37 More
The Americas
The Americas
Colombia, Brazil, Mexico
+ 16 More

MSF Websites

A Global Network
Our offices around the world
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Eastern Africa
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Holland
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Lebanon
  • Luxembourg
  • Malaysia
  • Mexico
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Russian Federation
  • Southern Africa
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Turkey
  • UAE
  • UK
  • Uruguay
  • USA
Our offices around the world
Other Sites
View Resource Centre
MSF Association

Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.

GO TO SITE MSF Association
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.

GO TO SITE Access Campaign
Staff blogs

Read stories from our staff as they carry out their work around the world.

GO TO SITE Staff blogs
Patient blogs

Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases.

GO TO SITE Patient blogs
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.

GO TO SITE CRASH
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.

GO TO SITE UREPH
ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

GO TO SITE ARHP
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.

GO TO SITE MSF Analysis
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.

GO TO SITE MSF Supply
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.

GO TO SITE MSF Logistique
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.

GO TO SITE Amsterdam Procurement Unit
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.

GO TO SITE Southern Africa Medical Unit
Kenya Supply Unit

Regional logistic centre for the whole East Africa region

GO TO SITE Kenya Supply Unit
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.

GO TO SITE Brazilian Medical Unit
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.

GO TO SITE MSF Medical Guidelines
MSF Field Research

Find important research based on our field experience on our dedicated Field Research website.

GO TO SITE MSF Field Research
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.

GO TO SITE Manson Unit
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.

GO TO SITE Epicentre
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.

GO TO SITE Evaluation Units
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.

GO TO SITE LUXOR
Intersectional Benchmarking Unit

The Intersectional Benchmarking Unit collects and analyses data about local labour markets in all locations where MSF employs people.

GO TO SITE Intersectional Benchmarking Unit
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.

GO TO SITE MSF Academy for Healthcare
Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

GO TO SITE Humanitarian Law
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.

GO TO SITE MSF Paediatric Days
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.

GO TO SITE MSF Foundation
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.

GO TO SITE DNDi
View Resource Centre
Comment vos dons sont utilisés

Vos dons paient des millions de consultations, de chirurgies, de traitements et de vaccins chaque année.

En savoir plus

80.5%

80.5%

Mission sociale

15.1%

15.1%

Recherche de fonds

4.4%

4.4%

Direction et administrateur générale
Logo - Médecins Sans Frontières
Explore
  • What we do
  • Medical activities
  • Crisis settings
  • In focus
  • Where we work
  • News
  • Resource centre
  • International Activity Report
About MSF
  • Who we are
  • How we're run
  • How we work
  • Contact us
Get involved
  • Work with MSF
  • Jobs in the field
  • Jobs in the office
  • Donate
  • Privacy policy
© Médecins Sans Frontières

140, Route de Ferney, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
Federal identification number: UID CH-660.1.555.004-1