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Doctors Without Borders Medecins 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.
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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: Holland France Belgium Switzerland Spain Luxembourg www.doctorswithoutborders.org
1971 – MSF is founded in France 1984 – 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.msf.org www.upload.wikimedia.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 Rieff A Bed for the Night
http://michjournal.wordpress.com/ The Rwandan Genocide Rwandan Hutu refugees with as many possessions as they can carry trudge along a highway near Benaco Junction in Tanzania.
www.msf.org Rwandan Refugees Return Home MSF was there to assist the refugees on their return journey to their homeland.
Where are they Now? • Global campaign launched in October; attempting to stop Europe’s control of medicine needed by patients in developing countries