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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 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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Vidéos prises de parole publiques : MSF et la guerre en ex-Yougoslavie 1991-2003

Responding to war in Ukraine
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Toutes les prises de parole publiques > MSF et la guerre en ex-Yougoslavie 1991-2003 > Vidéos

Convoi de Vukovar

13 novembre 1991 – France 3 – Florence Villagi, MSF. 

1992 Journal de l'année

Appel à une intervention armée

29 mai 1992 – RTL – Rony Brauman, MSF (audio only)

Rapport Kozarac

21 December 1992 – France 3 – Rony Brauman, MSF (French)

Epuration ethnique

27 décembre 1992 – France 2 – Rony Brauman, MSF

Interview sur l'épuration ethnique

29 décembre 1992 – Jean Porrini (MDM) et de Rony Brauman (MSF) 

Clips vidéos de MSF contre l'épuration ethnique

Décembre 1992 – MSF

Le General Morillon à Srebrenica

13 mars 1993 – France 2 

Rony Brauman sur Srebrenica

17 avril 1993 – France 2 – Rony Brauman, MSF 

Journal de l'année 1993

1993 – MSF France (French)

Rony Brauman sur Sarajevo

7 février 1994 – France Inter – Rony Brauman, MSF 

Eric Stobbaerts: Gorazde

10 avril 1994 – France 3 – Eric Stobbaerts, MSF 

Rony Brauman: Gorazde

11 avril 1994 – France Inter – Rony Brauman, MSF 

La situation à Gorazde

18 avril 1994 – France 2

Appel à la démission de Yasushi Akashi

18 avril 1994 – France 3 – Rony Brauman, MSF

Conférence de presse du Lt Gen Michael Rose sur Gorazde

18 avril 1994 - Associated Press

Rony Brauman sur sa rencontre avec François Mitterrand

21 avril 1994 – France 3

Journal de l'année 1994

1994 – MSF France 

Stephan Oberreit: Srebrenica

12 juillet 1995 – France 2 – Stephan Oberreit, MSF 

Prise de Srebrenica

12 juillet 1995 – France Inter – Stephan Oberreit, MSF 

Stephan Oberreit: Prise de Srebrenica

12 juillet 1995 – France 2 –  Stephan Oberreit, MSF 

Srebrenica: Epuration ethnique

11-13 juillet 1995 – France 2 

Christina Schmitz sur Srebrenica

MSF Unlimited - MSF Belgium  

Srebrenica in Memoriam

12 aout 1995 - Christophe Picart/EUP/MSF

Envoyé spécial

12-13 octobre 1995 – France 2 – Pierre Salignon, MSF

Les quatre vérités

14 aout 1995 – France 2 – Pierre Salignon, MSF 

Campagne MSF: «ne laissons pas l'histoire se répéter à Gorazde»

30 septembre 1995 – MSF

Accords de Dayton

16 décembre 1995 – France Inter – Rony Brauman, MSF 

Audition de MSF par la mission d’information parlementaire française sur Srebrenica

29 mars 2001 – Schmitz and Daniel O’Brien

Journal de l'année 2001

22 juin 2001 – MSF France

Mission d’information parlementaire française sur Srebrenica

29 novembre 2001 – France 3 – Jean-Hervé Bradol, MSF

Excuses publiques du parlement Serbe pour le massacre de Srebrenica

31 mars 2010 – France 3