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Press Release 29 Oct 2025

我们是谁

无国界医生(法语名是 Médecins Sans Frontières,英语名是Doctors Without Borders ,缩写是MSF) 为受武装冲突、疫病、灾难影响或被排拒于医疗护理之外的人们提供医疗援助。我们的团队由数以万计的专业人士组成,他们在健康和医疗保健、后勤、行政、通信、技术行业工作——他们因我们的章程而集结,为有需要的人提供援助。我们的行动遵循医疗道德以及不偏不倚、独立和中立的原则。我们是自治、会员制的非营利组织。

无国界医生于 1971 年由一群记者和医生在巴黎创立。今天,我们发展为一个 67,000 人参与的全球运动。

Chad: medical care in a conflict -44

健康促进员艾莎·B(Aisha B.)陪同 80 岁的艾莎·G(Aisha G.)前往乍得东部阿德雷过渡营的无国界医生诊所。2024 年 7 月。

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无国界医生章程

无国界医生是一个国际的非政府组织,主要由医生和医护人员组成,也欢迎有助实现组织目标的其他专业人员参与。

全体成员同意遵守以下原则:

无国界医生不分种族、宗教、信仰和政治立场,为身处困境的人们,以及天灾人祸和武装冲突的受害者提供援助。

无国界医生遵循国际医疗守则,坚持人道援助的权利,恪守中立和不偏不倚的立场,并要求其在行动中不受任何阻挠。

全体成员严格遵守其职业规范,并且完全独立于任何政治、经济和宗教势力之外。

作为志愿者,全体成员深谙执行组织的使命所面临的风险和困难,并且不会要求组织向其本人或受益人作出超乎组织所能提供的赔偿。

对《无国界医生章程》的补充

作为对《章程》的补充,两份核心文件通过探索贴近患者、优质医疗护理以及见证的概念,定义了我们的工作方式和指导原则。

Doctors on Rails - MSF Medicalised train in Ukraine
People and patients first

Our actions are guided by medical ethics

MSF’s actions are first and foremost medical. Our guiding aim is to provide the best quality of care possible – wherever we work – and to act always in the best interest of people and patients: to respect their confidentiality, their right to make their own decisions, and above all, to do them no harm. When medical assistance alone is not enough, we may provide shelter, water and sanitation, food, or other services.

工作原则

我们是一项全球运动,员工来自 160 多个国家/地区

致力实现更多元、平等和共融

我们在全球163个国家招募了超过67,000名员工,并在全球 70 多个国家开展救援工作。因此,我们明了多元化、公平和共融关乎我们能否成功践行医疗人道使命。我们正通过挑战运营结构、为当地员工创造更多机会、重新评估薪酬和福利政策等措施,在组织上下推行改变,以更充分反映如此优良的多元特质,并建立一支全球工作团队。

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Mental Health in Jammu & Kashmir
健康促进主管萨布丽娜·哈桑(Sabreena Hassan)与她的同事——社区心理健康工作者达妮什塔(Danishta)和曼苏尔·乌尔·哈桑(Mansoor ul Hassan)——一起在达达萨拉·特拉尔的心理健康咨询中心。印度查谟和克什米尔,2022 年 3 月。
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我们的历史

ANIMATION: Once upon a time the MSF movement (ENG)
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The MSF movement

我们的缘起

无国界医生的成立

从一群医生到一场国际运动:无国界医生运动在过去 50 多年里是如何发展的?通过动画电影《从前,有一场“无国界医生全球运动”》了解无国界医生的创建以及我们历史上的重要篇章。

无国界医生(MSF) 于 1971 年 12 月在尼日利亚比亚法拉(Biafra)爆发战争和饥荒后,由一群医生和记者在法国创立。他们的目标是建立一个专注于快速、有效和不偏不倚地提供独立紧急医疗援助的组织。

该组织成立时,包括 13 名创始医生和记者在内,团队共有 300 名志愿者,他们是医生、护士和其他工作人员。

无国界医生成立的理念是,无论性别、种族、宗教、信仰或政治派别,所有人都应该能够获得医疗护理,而且应对人们的医疗需求比尊重国界更重要。无国界医生的行动宗旨,在建立组织工作框架的章程里已有详述。
 

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Staff Social Media Guidelines

When used responsibly, social media can help us share our work. Use the three core materials listed below to guide your own personal social media use to avoid harming to yourself, your peers or the communities we serve. 
 

  1. MSF's Social Media Guidelines poster (see below) outlines the main points of responsible social media use when using your personal accounts.
     
  2. MSF Behavioural Commitments detail the minimum behavioural standards (offline and online) expected of all staff. 
     
  3. Staff handbooks/ office employee policies may also apply in your office that go beyond these guidelines. Ask your manager what rules are in place.
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Social Media Guidelines 2025 - English pdf — 2.65 MB Download
Social Media Guidelines 2025 - French pdf — 2.51 MB Download
Social Media Guidelines 2025 - Arabic pdf — 2.55 MB Download

Download the Social Media 2025 guidelines in other languages, by visiting our SharePoint site:

📄 Social Media Guidelines language variations on SharePoint

Once you have reviewed the core materials above, take a look at best practices versus bad practices, and the additional resources below. 

We recognise the importance of freedom of expression and the critical role of speaking out, especially in under-reported crises. These resources are designed to enhance your knowledge about responsible behaviour online to make sure you can speak out without causing harm to yourself or others. 

The principles embedded in the MSF behavioural commitments directly intersect with your personal social media use. For instance, your commitment to respectful behaviour and non-discrimination extends to your online interactions, ensuring that your posts do not cause harm or contradict MSF's humanitarian values. 

Similarly, your commitment to not take advantage of vulnerable people means you must exercise caution when sharing posts related to crisis-affected communities. We ask you not to take or share photographs of patients and/or vulnerable people on your personal accounts, and make sure your colleagues are comfortable with you taking and sharing their image by asking explicitly for their consent (more information on this below under additional resources). 

Your adherence to these commitments, even in your personal online space, is crucial for maintaining the trust and credibility that support MSF's ability to operate effectively in challenging environments.

✅ Examples of Good Practice

➡️ Example: You reshare an official MSF comment on a humanitarian crisis, or share a link to an MSF article about our work in a specific region, without adding personal commentary that could be misinterpreted as an official statement.

Why it is good practice: This helps disseminate accurate and comprehensive information about MSF's work and advocacy, supporting MSF’s mission without the risk of accidentally crossing a communications red line or misrepresenting a crisis.

➡️ Example: If you have written that you work for MSF in your profile information, you also add a disclaimer e.g. "the views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the official position of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders." 

Why it is good practice: This disclaimer helps to maintain a clear distinction between your personal opinions and the official stance of MSF which is very important to prevent any confusion from the public, media or government officials who may otherwise confuse your posts as official MSF messages.

Maintaining a clear distinction between personal accounts and institutional accounts is also why we ask you to never use the MSF logo as your profile photo or header photo.

➡️ Example: You avoid posting photos or videos of patients and ensure the content you publish respects dignity and "does no harm."

This includes being mindful of backgrounds in photos that might reveal sensitive locations or information such as a medical form or confidential document.

You add appropriate context to any images you do share to prevent your post being misinterpreted.

Why it is good practice: This directly aligns with MSF's ethical principles, medical confidentiality, and commitment to patient well-being. It ensures we prioritise the safety and dignity of the people MSF serves.

❌ Examples of Bad Practice

➡️ Example: You post on your private social media account about a specific medical case an MSF team has been working on, including details about a patient's condition or sensitive information about a project location.

"Just completed a blood transfusion on a 10 year old child with severe malaria at the Ministry of Health clinic in North region. It's heartbreaking to see how many kids here are suffering from severe malaria. The local health authorities are really struggling to cope."

Why it is bad practice: This violates medical confidentiality and patient privacy, even without explicit names this child could be identified.

Medical confidentiality should always be paramount. MSF staff should never disclose medical and personal information; this is against medical and humanitarian ethics and will seriously erode trust in our medical mission.

➡️ Example: You are deployed to a highly conservative country and your pre-departure briefing includes information about dressing conservatively and notes that alcohol is prohibited in the country.

You leave your social media accounts public with your personal social media profile picture set to a photograph of you wearing speedos and drinking beer at the beach.

Why it is bad practice: This photograph could be perceived as disrespectful or culturally insensitive. In extreme cases it could affect the acceptance of MSF teams, especially if you are in a position of authority, making it harder for MSF to operate effectively.

MSF's behavioural commitments emphasise behaving respectfully which includes respecting local customs and avoiding actions that could undermine the mission.

➡️ Example: You are deployed to a conflict zone but the area around the MSF guest house is a green zone and security rules allow you the freedom to go on a morning jog. 

Every morning before work you log on to a running app and track your morning run. While you're there you also decide to log on to a dating app. You match with a member of the military and arrange to go on a date. 

Why it is bad practice: While dating apps and GPS tracking apps may not be viewed as social media, they are still online platforms where you're publicly posting information and they could pose a security risk to you and the mission.

Publicly sharing your GPS coordinates via running or other apps can give hostile actors a pattern of your movement and compromise the security of the MSF guesthouse.

Furthermore, communicating with a member of the military in a conflict zone on a dating platform could call into question MSF's neutrality which may pose a security risk.

Additional Tips

Find below additional tips to help us improve our digital security habits (Digital Hygiene), critically evaluate online information to prevent the spread of falsehoods (Digital Literacy) and strengthen our commitment to ethical communication (Visual Storytelling Guidelines).

These guidelines have been created to help MSF staff understand how to use personal social media accounts responsibly.

For information on how to use social media for institutional purposes or if you have any additional questions, please contact the International Digital Engagement Team at [email protected].

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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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