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Who We Are

World Malaria Day 2018 in DRC

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

How we work

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

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.

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.

Contact us

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

What we do

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

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Medical Activities Medical Activities

MSF Measles Vaccination in DRC

We treat patients suffering from a wide array of illnesses and health needs. Here are some of the main needs we see and what we do about them.

Crisis Settings Crisis Settings

Aden besieged

Discover some of the main crises we work in, the consequences faced by affected people and challenges in delivering care.

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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Africa Africa + 34 More

Asia & Pacific Asia & Pacific + 18 More

Middle East & North Africa Middle East & North Africa + 10 More

Europe & Central Asia Europe & Central Asia + 27 More

The Americas The Americas + 13 More

MSF Websites

A Global Network

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.

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.

Staff blogs

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

Patient blogs

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

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.

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.

ARHP

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

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.

Speaking Out

Read through case studies where we openly examine and analyse all our actions and decision-making processes during humanitarian emergencies that have led us to speak out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MSF Field Research

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Intersectional Benchmarking Unit

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

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.

Humanitarian Law

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

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.

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.

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.

Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya

RDSU - Bordeaux 2017

Cholera response in Yemen

Cambodia Hep-C

Cholera intervention in South Kivu

Médicos Sem Fronteiras

Relatório anual 2017

Escolhas difíceis: levar cuidados de saúde a centros de detenção na Líbia

Realizando cirurgias de trauma nas guerras mais esquecidas do mundo e a opinião pública

Sudão do Sul sem Fronteiras: os esforços de MSF para ajudar os deslocados

Mesmo fácil de tratar e prevenir, a cólera devasta comunidades em 2017

Hepatite C: fazendo campanha para melhorar o acesso à cura

Índice

Yemen : surgical emergency hospital in northern Aden

Países

Banki

O ano em foco

Tal Abyad Hospital

Realizando cirurgias de trauma nas guerras mais esquecidas do mundo e a opinião pública

Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya

Escolhas difíceis: levar cuidados de saúde a centros de detenção na Líbia

Sudão do Sul sem Fronteiras: os esforços de MSF para ajudar os deslocados

Cholera response in Yemen

Mesmo fácil de tratar e prevenir, a cólera devasta comunidades em 2017

Cambodia Hep-C

Hepatite C: fazendo campanha para melhorar o acesso à cura

Chiradzulu: HIV care for adolescents

2017 em números

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Vozes do campo

Regiões

Old Fangak Stories

África

Tondo project in Philippines

Ásia e Pacífico

SAR activities June 2017

Europa e Ásia Central

Voices from Oaxaca

América

Newly renovated ICU Opens at Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospital

Oriente Médio e Norte da África

O ano em foco

Em 2017, a violência contra civis aumentou em Mianmar, na República Democrática do Congo (RDC), no Sudão do Sul, na República Centro-Africana e no Iraque. Continuou inabalável na Síria, na Nigéria e no Iêmen. Comunidades inteiras pagaram um preço impressionante de mortos, feridos e diferentes perdas, e milhões fugiram de suas casas em busca de segurança.

Album de fotos

Um ano em fotos 2017

18 Dec 2017

Album de fotos