Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a non profitable international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971.[1] MSF gives emergency aid to people affected by wars, epidemics, famine, natural disasters and man-made disasters, or areas where there is no health care available. It provides this help to all people, regardless of their race, religion or political beliefs.
Type | Medical humanitarian organisation |
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Founded | 1971 |
Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
Website | www.msf.org www.doctorswithoutborders.org |
In 1999 Doctors Without Borders was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[2] On 7 October 2015, President Barack Obama, also Nobel Peace Prize winner and at that time commander in chief, issued an apology to Doctors Without Borders for Kunduz hospital airstrike.[3]
Doctors Without Borders Media
Introduction of Médecins Sans Frontières
Aerial photograph of a Mihanda, Zaire refugee camp in 1996. Pictured are 500+ tents set up in the Mitumba Mountains.
An MSF outpost in Darfur (2005)
MSF logistician in Nigeria showing plans
An MSF health worker examines a malnourished child in Ethiopia, July 2011.
James Orbinski speaking about MSF in 2015
References
- ↑ "About Doctors Without Borders". doctorswithoutborders.org. 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ↑ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1999". nobelprize.org. 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ↑ Shear, Michael D.; Sengupta, Somini (2015-10-07). "Obama Issues Rare Apology Over Bombing of Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/asia/obama-apologizes-for-bombing-of-afghanistan-hospital.html. Retrieved 2019-10-01.