Doctors Without Borders
Sub heading: Doctors without Borders Doctors without borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971.
Who is involved, and how extensive are their projects?
Who is involved? 27000 committed individuals from different nationalities provide assistance to people in crisis across the world. These people include doctors, nurses, logistics experts, administrators, epidemiologists, laboratory technicians, mental health professionals and others who work in accordance with MSF’s guiding principles of humanitarian actions and medical ethics. Majority of MSF’s workers are from communities where crises are occurring with ten percent made up of international staff. 19 associative organizations from different countries form the MSF structure. Each association is responsible to a Board of Directors elected by its members
How extensive are their projects? MSF has 19 offices across the world with one in New York City with considerable financial, human, and logistical resources. In 2009, MSF-USA raised $133.9 million, representing more than 16 percent of the MSF network’s private funding. In 2010, it sent US-based aid workers on more than 430 assignments overseas, liaised with a wide range of US media, organized high-level meetings with UN and US government officials, and arranged regular speaking events and activities across the US. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need , in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF also reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is their primary
Who is involved, and how extensive are their projects?
Who is involved? 27000 committed individuals from different nationalities provide assistance to people in crisis across the world. These people include doctors, nurses, logistics experts, administrators, epidemiologists, laboratory technicians, mental health professionals and others who work in accordance with MSF’s guiding principles of humanitarian actions and medical ethics. Majority of MSF’s workers are from communities where crises are occurring with ten percent made up of international staff. 19 associative organizations from different countries form the MSF structure. Each association is responsible to a Board of Directors elected by its members
How extensive are their projects? MSF has 19 offices across the world with one in New York City with considerable financial, human, and logistical resources. In 2009, MSF-USA raised $133.9 million, representing more than 16 percent of the MSF network’s private funding. In 2010, it sent US-based aid workers on more than 430 assignments overseas, liaised with a wide range of US media, organized high-level meetings with UN and US government officials, and arranged regular speaking events and activities across the US. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need , in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF also reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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