doctors without borders
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• International medical humanitarian organization
• Created by doctors and journalists
• France in 1971.
Not only Doctors...
• Nurses• Logistics experts• Administrators• Epidemiologists• Laboratory
technicians• Mental health
professionals• Others
Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries…
…mainly concerned with:
• Armed conflict• Epidemics• Malnutrition• Exclusion from
health care• Natural disasters
MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need.
Medical ethics
Impartiality
in
1999
Independent funding.
…90% of MSF's overall funding comes from private, non-govermental sources.
As an organization, MSF is neutral. MSF does not take sides in armed conflicts, provides care on the basis of need alone.
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