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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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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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War in Gaza:: find out how we're responding
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Democratic Republic of Congo

A brief history

Since the beginning of the conflict, humanitarian workers have faced enormous difficulties in working with populations even though the needs have been so great. The primary reason for the limited access has been the insecurity, which also affects humanitarian workers. In 2001, six members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were murdered in their car near Fataki, 70 kilometers from Bunia. Project Update - 2 Aug 2005
 
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Niger

Plenty of food - yet the poor are starving

The two faces of Niger. This article first appeared in The Guardian Project Update - 1 Aug 2005
 
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Niger

Niger Crisis: overview of MSF programs

Between January 1 and mid-July 2005, MSF admitted 12,600 severely malnourished children to the feeding centres. The rhythm of admissions has accelerated, with on average 1,000 children per week since the month of June. For the whole of 2005, we expect to treat approximately 30,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition. Last year, 10,000 children in Maradi were admitted to feeding centres. Project Update - 29 Jul 2005
 
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Sudan

Lives dangle by a thread in Darfur

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) appreciates having this opportunity to address the United Nations Security Council about the ongoing humanitarian situation in Darfur and the uncertain future the people continue to face Speech - 27 Jul 2005
 
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Brazil

Action needed to tackle the second wave of the AIDS drug pricing crisis

MSF calls on governments to use all means at their disposal to decrease the prices of life-extending treatments for the poor. Project Update - 26 Jul 2005
 
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Turkmenistan

MSF hopes to get a better picture of the medical situation in Magdanly

MSF hopes to get a better picture of the medical situation in Magdanly through the new facility. Project Update - 26 Jul 2005
 
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Niger

Niger Crisis: A food chain that leads to malnutrition

"Among the children who are admitted in the nutritional centre, it's often hard to tell if they fell sick because they were malnourished and weak or if the malnutrition is the consequence of their sickness."
Inside the MSF tents the patients include two-year-old children who scarcely weigh three kilos - less than the weight of a child at birth in Europe. Project Update - 25 Jul 2005
 
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Aid workers warn of North Korea's forgotten health crisis

Severe floods and a subsequent famine killed up to three million North Koreans during 1995-1999. This crisis has left much of the country's remaining population engaged in a constant battle to survive. And aid agencies are unable to deliver help to those most in need. Justin McCurry reports. Project Update - 21 Jul 2005
 
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Sudan

Malnutrition: A critical situation in Akuem

In addition to this chronic food insecurity, there are additional factors that increase the risk of malnutrition: insufficient access to water and healthcare, inadequate hygiene conditions and ill adapted weaning practices. Project Update - 20 Jul 2005
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Waking up to Congo's sleeping sickness

MSF is campaigning for more research and development into a cure for sleeping sickness that would be quick to administer.

 Project Update - 19 Jul 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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