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.
At the end of 2007, MSF ended its activities in Rwanda after 16 years in the country.
MSF's work had included assistance to displaced persons, war surgery, programs for unaccompanied children and street children, support to victims traumatised by the conflict, programs to improve access to health care, responding to epidemics such as malaria, cholera, and tuberculosis, and projects linked to maternal and reproductive health.
Rwanda
Rwanda, 20 years later: “I am left with a great sadness”
Voices from the Field28 Apr 2014
Rwanda
Rwandan genocide 25 years on: MSF caught in spiral of extreme violence from Rwanda to Zaire
Voices from the Field5 Apr 2019
Rwanda
Remembering the genocide more than 20 years on
Project Update6 Apr 2018
Rwanda
Interview with the authors of "Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Mass Killings"
Interview1 Dec 2016
Book
Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings
23 Nov 2016
Book
Central African Republic
A Year in Focus 2013-2014
Project Update30 Jun 2014
Journal article
Paediatric Pharmacovigilance: Use of Pharmacovigilance Data Mining Algorithms for Signal Detection in a Safety Dataset of a Paediatric Clinical Study Conducted in Seven African Countries
1 May 2014
Journal article
Rwanda
Rwanda, 20 years later: “I am left with a great sadness”
Voices from the Field28 Apr 2014
Rwanda
Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide: “We don’t talk about things that are hard to recount”
Voices from the Field25 Apr 2014
MSF Speaking Out
The violence of the new Rwandan regime 1994 - 1995
Speaking out.4 Mar 2014
Burundi
A health clinic where thousands of Rwandans seek refugee in Burundi
Project Update22 Jun 2006
Burundi
A day in a refugee camp clinic in Burundi
Project Update22 Jun 2006
Rwanda
'I try to stay unknown as much as I can' - Portrait of a Rwandan seeking refuge
Project Update22 Jun 2006
Publications and Analysis
Book
Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings
23 Nov 2016
Book
MSF Speaking Out
The violence of the new Rwandan regime 1994 - 1995