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Doctors Without BordersMedecins Sans Frontieres
Sarah Hoehn
MSF is an international medical humanitarian organization
www.cafebabel.co.uk
What do they Believe?
• All people have the right to medical care regardless of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Médecins_Sans_Frontières
What do they Believe?
• The needs of people outweigh the respect for national borders
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Médecins_Sans_Frontières
MSF’s goal is to bring quality medical care to all people
caught in the midst of a crisis
http://web.mit.edu/msfweek
MSF provides
aid in over 70
countries
www.globalpatriot.com
www.cache.boston.com
MSF employs 27,000 people from all different
nationalities.
www.ippnw-students.org money.howstuffworks.com
Countries Involved:
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Countries Involved: Six Main Sections around the World:
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
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
www.upload.wikimedia.org
www.msf.org
http://tamilnational.com
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 Genocide
Rwandan Hutu refugees with as many possessions as they can carry trudge along a highway near Benaco Junction in Tanzania.
http://michjournal.wordpress.com/
Rwandan Refugees Return Home
MSF was there to assist the refugees on their return journey to their homeland.
www.msf.org
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?