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

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How we work

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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 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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Democratic Republic of Congo

Greed in a time of cholera

To survive, the people of eastern Congo have a choice: either to risk deadly diseases mining minerals for rebel soldiers, or flee into the jungle. Kate Holt and Sarah Hughes report on how an entire population has been enslaved - and abandoned by the West Project Update - 21 Sep 2004
 
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Haiti

Floods in Haiti: MSF starts intervention in Gonaives

After the flooding that hit the city of Gonaives, in northwest Haiti, on Saturday September 18, MSF has started its intervention to meet the medical needs of the population. Project Update - 21 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

MSF support programmes for sexual violence victims among Darfur's displaced

While working in their clinics and feeding centers in Sudan's western region of Darfur, MSF volunteers regularly come across women and girls who have been raped or sexually assaulted. It generally happened when their village was attacked, or when, after having fled to displaced settlements they had to go out looking for firewood.

Joop Hegeman, a nurse and therapist, is helping to set up a response within MSF's South Darfur programs for women seeking assistance and a system to identify girls and women who need help, but are not necessarily coming forward. MSF teams in other parts of Darfur are organising a similar type of response. Project Update - 16 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

Despite heavy mobilization of aid in Darfur, the situation remains fragile and assistance must continue

These displaced people, who have lost everything, are completely dependent on humanitarian aid. Most had their food reserves destroyed or looted and were unable to plant their fields. Their only means of survival is continued international aid. Despite harsh living conditions in the camps, they do not want to return to their home areas, mainly because they fear more attacks. It is therefore imperative that aid mobilization continue, even if media coverage stops or Sudan disappears from the international political agenda. Project Update - 15 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

The struggle for care in Katanga

Suffering from advanced cerebral malaria, the three year old girl died just after 10am after convulsing for about an hour. Having watched silently as the medical staff tried desperately to keep her child alive, when the moment finally came, the mother fell forward, bent double over the metal bed frame, and began crying hysterically into the mattress. Project Update - 13 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

Weak care system remains at Darfur's Camp Kalma

In other regions of Darfur, the number of severely malnourished children is decreasing in MSF feeding centers, mainly thanks to the general food distributions. In Kalma, however, there is still an increase which cannot be explained by the fast growth of the camp alone. Project Update - 13 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

Surge of violence in North Darfur

The province of North Darfur has been affected by increasing violence and tension since late August. The immediate consequence is the arrival of 2,000 intenally displaced people (IDPs) to Zam Zam camp over the last few days. Project Update - 13 Sep 2004
 
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Cambodia

AIDS in Cambodia: a second chance at life

In the Southeast Asian country hardest hit by AIDS, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is battling the disease with life-prolonging antiretroviral medication. But in Cambodia, there are still obstacles that must be overcome before AIDS treatment is available for all. Photo Story - 10 Sep 2004
 
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Somalia

Precautionary evacuation of MSF team in Lower Juba Valley

Expat members of an MSF team based in Marere (Lower Juba Valley), southern Somalia, have been evacuated as a preventative measure. Project Update - 10 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

The other Sudan: crisis in Malakal in danger of exacerbating

Alongside Darfur, another serious humanitarian crisis is going on in Sudan in the Shilluk Kingdom, near the city of Malakal in Upper Nile State. Project Update - 10 Sep 2004
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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