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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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Poland

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In Poland, we provide support to our activities in Ukraine and respond to the needs of refugees arriving in large numbers after the dramatic escalation of the war in the country in 2022.

We also support an innovative tuberculosis (TB) programme in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and WHO to achieve a new model of care, linking Ukrainian TB patients to medical facilities and psycho-social support. 

After withdrawing from the Poland-Belarus border region in December 2021 due to a lack of access authorisation, our teams returned to the area in November 2022. We are now working in the Podlasie region to respond to medical needs in collaboration with other organisations and civil society groups, including treating injuries, hypothermia, dehydration, and making referrals to hospitals for the most severe cases. 

Our activities in 2022 in Poland

Data and information from the International Activity Report 2022.

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STAFF IN 2022 (full-time equivalent)

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expenditure in 2022

2005

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Year MSF first worked in the country
In 2022, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started to support a new drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) programme in Poland. We also assisted migrants and refugees stranded at the border with Belarus.
Poland IAR map 2022

In February, in response to the escalation of the war in Ukraine, we opened a logistics centre in Poland, through which we supply our medical humanitarian operations in Ukraine, and organise transit for our teams entering and leaving the war-struck country.

Since July, we have been supporting a pilot DR-TB treatment programme run by the Ministry of Health, coordinated by the Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, in Warsaw and supported by the World Health Organization (WHO). The programme is designed to provide a new outpatient model of care for DR-TB in Poland. In addition, we donated essential medicines to enable health facilities to implement the latest WHO treatment recommendations.  

Our teams also provide continuity of treatment for Ukrainian refugees with TB, by linking them to medical facilities and offering psychological and social support.  

In November, our teams returned to Podlasie region, near the border with Belarus, to respond to the basic medical needs of migrants and refugees. We continue to carry out these activities in close cooperation with other organisations and civil society groups. 

 

 
Acute humanitarian crisis at the Belarusian borders with the EU
Belarus

Two years of response to the acute humanitarian crisis at EU’s eastern borders

Project Update 28 Feb 2024
 
Forest in Podlaskie region
Poland

People continue to cross Belarus-Poland border in search of safety in Europe

Press Release 19 Dec 2023
 
Wire fence on the Polish-Belarusian Border
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Poland-Belarus border crisis: “We don’t want people to die in the forest”

Voices from the Field 3 Feb 2022
 
Forest in Podlaskie region
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF leaves Polish border after being blocked from assisting people

Press Release 6 Jan 2022
 
Iraqi father holding child at Polish border
Belarus

8 things to know about the EU/Belarus border crisis

Project Update 31 Dec 2021