Doctors Without BordersMedecins Sans Frontieres

Sarah Hoehn

MSF is an international medical humanitarian organization

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What do they Believe?• All people have the

right to medical care regardless of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation

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What do they Believe?• The needs of

people outweigh the respect for national borders

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MSF’s goal is to bring quality medical care to all people

caught in the midst of a crisis

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MSF provides

aid in over 70

countries

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MSF employs 27,000 people from all different

nationalities.

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Countries Involved: www.doctorswithoutborders.org

Countries Involved: Six Main Sections around the World:

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HollandFrance

Belgium

Switzerland Spain

Luxembourg

1971 – MSF is founded in France1984 – MSF aids victims of the Famine in Ethiopia 1993 – MSF helps refugees of the Civil war in Burundi 1994 – Genocide in Rwanda, Crisis in Zaire, MSF is there!1999 – Access to essential medicines, MSF gets Nobel peace price

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Just like every other organization, MSF has it’s critics…

“The world is getting bloodier even as the values get better, and that humanitarian action amounts to little more than putting Band-Aids on a malignant tumor…”

- David RieffA Bed for the Night

The Rwandan GenocideRwandan Hutu refugees with as many possessions as they can carry

trudge along a highway near Benaco Junction in Tanzania.

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Rwandan Refugees Return Home

MSF was there to assist the refugees on their return journey to their homeland.

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Where are they Now?• Global campaign

launched in October; attempting to stop Europe’s control of medicine needed by patients in developing countries

How we can Help?