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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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Guatemala

Mudslides devastate communities

Guatemala has endured by mudslides that have buried entire communities following Hurricane Stan that brought torrential rains to the region. Hurricane Stan struck Guatemala from October 4 to 9 and the storm left weakened terrain throughout the country. Mudslides were constant in the following hours and days. Project Update - 12 Oct 2005
 
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Natural disasters

Basic needs are all important in Asian quake epicenter

Appearing on BBC Newsnight, October 11, MSF Project Coordinator Jan Peter Stellema talked about the basic supplies he is trying to bring back to Lamnian, the village where he was working with two other MSF staff members when the earthquake struck. Voices from the Field - 12 Oct 2005
 
Natural disasters

Natural disasters do not lead to epidemics

Philippe Guérin, Scientific Director of Epicentre - the epidemiology branch of MSF - explains that natural disasters do not harbour epidemics. He details the risks and priorities in the wake of the Kashmir earthquake, as he had done after the tsunami that struck southern Asia in December 2004. Project Update - 12 Oct 2005
 
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Morocco

Mass relocation to uncertain locations for immigrants in Morocco after MSF highlights their plight

Following the MSF press release on Oct 7 reporting on 500 immigrants in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, in Morocco, who had been abandoned by authorities in a desert area in southern Morocco with no food, water or adequate means for survival. Project Update - 11 Oct 2005
 
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Earthquake

Primary needs are focus of MSF work at Asian earthquake zone

MSF is increasing its activities in both Pakistan and India-controlled Kashmir following the Saturday morning earthqauke in the region. The quake measured 7.6 on the Richter Scale and has brought widespread devastation. Project Update - 10 Oct 2005
 
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India

Teams in India-controlled Kashmir provide emergency help after earthquake

MSF is running a psycho-social project in the Indian region of Kashmir. Project Update - 10 Oct 2005
 
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Burundi

MSF denied access to Rwandan transit camp in Burundi

Press Release - 1 Oct 2005
 
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Morocco

Violence and Immigration: Report on illegal sub-Saharan immigrants (ISSs) in Morocco

MSF is concerned that these findings reveal systematic violence and degrading treatment which only serve to increase the suffering and marginalisation of people who are already exposed to extremely precarious and often inhumane conditions. Report - 30 Sep 2005
 
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Nigeria

Patient numbers increase after key media campaign in northern Nigeria

Since the opening of the project three weeks ago, more than 260 malnourished children have been treated by MSF. Project Update - 28 Sep 2005
 
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Cholera

Cholera outbreaks across West Africa: MSF sends more staff and supplies

A number of factors conspire to make the outbreak during this year's rainy season much worse than in most years, including bad conditions of hygiene, overcrowding in certain areas, and a lack of safe drinking water. Project Update - 14 Sep 2005
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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