Doctors Without Borders - WaCA
About Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Founded in 1971, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, non-profit medical association that provides medical and emergency assistance to people affected by armed conflicts, epidemics, natural disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are composed of tens of thousands of healthcare professionals, logisticians, administrators, and specialists from various fields, all guided by our medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence, and neutrality.
MSF WaCA
Established in 2019, MSF WaCA (West and Central Africa) is the first MSF headquarters in Africa. It reflects the movement’s ambition to reinvent itself after 50 years of humanitarian action worldwide, aiming to ensure greater access to healthcare, faster responsiveness, and stronger proactivity to provide wider medical coverage for crisis-affected populations.
Our Ambition
Through an independent and impartial approach, we aim to make a difference for people in crisis by:
Placing the patient at the center of healthcare decisions, as the primary actor of their own health.
Empowering field teams, who are closest to daily realities, to define operational priorities.
Anchoring MSF’s interventions within civil society, leveraging its resources, academic expertise, research, and medical skills.
Building a new model of humanitarian action, serving patients innovatively, with a strong focus on digital transformation.
Our Approach
Emergency interventions that are rapid and effective.
Innovative projects where patients play a central role in managing their health.
Medium-term projects, implemented in partnership with communities and ministries of health.
Associates actively involved in strategic decision-making.
A zero-tolerance policy on abuse and harassment.
Agile operating models adapted to evolving contexts.
A work culture rooted in inclusion and diversity of thought.