In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.
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.
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.
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.
L’étude de cas 'Génocide des Rwandais Tutsis 1994' examine les contraintes, questionnements et dilemmes rencontrés par Médecins Sans Frontières pendant le génocide des Rwandais tutsis en avril, mai et juin 1994. Les massacres se sont déroulés malgré la présence dans le pays, depuis plusieurs mois, de troupes des Nations unies, tandis que les États membres du Conseil de Sécurité des Nations unies tardaient à qualifier de génocide l’extermination des Tutsis, se dérobant ainsi à l’obligation d’intervention prescrite par le droit international. Médecins Sans Frontières allia alors rencontres diplomatiques et prises de parole publiques dans l’espoir de bousculer l’inertie des États.
Ces prises de position et ces engagements sont le résultat de débats, de conflits, d’oppositions entre interprétations de la situation rwandaise et du rôle de Médecins Sans Frontières face à des dilemmes majeurs.
Dilemmes et questionnements:
Etait-il acceptable que Médecins Sans Frontières, en tant qu’organisation humanitaire, garde le silence total face à un génocide ou au contraire appelle à une intervention armée, c’est à dire à une action qui entraînerait la mort d’êtres humains ?
Etait-il envisageable que Médecins Sans Frontières appelle les Etats à d’autres modes d’action, au risque de justifier une réponse de leur part totalement inefficace, au regard de la nature même du génocide ?
Lancé au moment où la France proposait d’intervenir au Rwanda, l’appel de Médecins Sans Frontières ne risquai-t-il pas d’être récupéré politiquement ?
