Support Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (French Name) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971.

Have heard a lot about the organization on TV and read lots of news stories about this splendid organization. Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 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. Doctors Without Borders provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need. Doctors Without Borders received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

Doctors Without Borders work is based on the humanitarian principles of medical ethics and impartiality. Two principles hard to follow. The organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation.

Principles of action are described in the organization's 1971 founding charter, which established a framework for its activities.

On any one day, more than 27,000 committed individuals representing dozens of nationalities can be found providing assistance to people caught in crises around the world. They are doctors, nurses, logistics experts, administrators, epidemiologists, laboratory technicians, mental health professionals, and others who work together in accordance with Doctors Without Borders guiding principles of humanitarian action and medical ethics.

Doctors Without Borders field staff are supported by their colleagues in 19 offices around the world, including one in New York. The vast majority of Doctors Without Borders aid workers are from the communities where the crises are occurring, with ten percent of teams made up of international staff, including more than 200 aid workers from the US in 2007.

So far Doctors Without Borders has treated more than 2000 patients in Haiti. More details on this page. Please help Doctors Without Borders in continuing their work in Haiti and other parts of the world. You can find all the donation options on this page.

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