(also known as MSF)
Doctors Without Borders provides primary health care, performs surgery, rehabilitates hospitals and clinics, runs nutrition and sanitation programs, trains local medical personnel, and provides mental health care. Through longer-term programs, MSF treats chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, sleeping sickness, and AIDS; assists with the medical and psychological problems of marginalized populations including street children and ethnic minorities; and brings health care to remote, isolated areas where resources and training are limited. For more information about what they do click here.
1974- Hurricane Fifi in Honduras: First long-term medical assistance mission.
1976- War in Lebanon: first major war mission. For seven months, 56 doctors and nurses take turns in a Beirut hospital caring for Shi'ite civilians under fire from Christian fighters.
1979- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: Most dangerous mission to date. Teams work clandestinely with the Afghan resistance fighters caring for civilian population.
1991- Kurdish refugee crisis in northern Iraq: In the largest emergency relief operations since the founding of MSF, teams deliver emergency medical and sanitary assistance to the Kurds in Turkey, Iran, Jordan.
1996- Meningitis outbreak in Nigeria: MSF vaccinates 4.5 million people.
* These are just some of the major events that the group has helped with. Click here for more information.
