Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created in France in 1971. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in almost 70 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 provides independent, impartial assistance in almost 70 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.
The company helps people in distress, victims of natural or man made disasters as well as armed conflicts. The company provides a quick and non-bureaucratic medical and humanitarian assistance to the people who fell into distress due to natural disasters, epidemics, mass disasters, wars or war-like conditions or are on the run.The company publishes eyewitness reports and other information which are aimed at raising public awareness.
Medical teams conduct evaluations on the ground to determine a population's medical needs before opening programs, aiming to fill gaps that exist (rather than replicating services that are already offered) or reach communities that are not being assisted. The key to MSF's ability to act independently in response to a crisis is its independent funding. Ninety percent of MSF's overall funding comes from private, non-governmental sources.
