Medical Aid Where It's Needed Most
Medical Aid Where It's Needed Most
DELIVERING Medical Aid Where It's Needed Most
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Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international and independent medical humanitarian organisation delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare in over 70 countries worldwide.
INDEPENDENT. NEUTRAL. IMPARTIAL.
FUNDED BY INDIVIDUALS
MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris in the belief that all people should have access to healthcare regardless of gender, race, religion or political affiliation.
Today, we are a worldwide movement of nearly 65,000 people. We work in over 70 countries providing medical care where the need is greatest. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.
TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Your donation to MSF helps to provide medical aid to people affected by crisis, disasters and war in places like Democratic Republic of Congo, Papua New Guinea, Sudan, Yemen and beyond.
Every dollar we receive comes from individuals like you. It’s only with this support that we can reach and care for people living in extreme circumstances – no matter who they are, no matter where they are.
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
In 1999, we were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The judges chose MSF “in recognition of the organisation’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents” and to honour our medical staff, who have worked in more than 80 countries and treated tens of millions of people.
The proceeds from the prize were used to set up a Neglected Disease Fund, designed to support pilot projects for the clinical development, production, procurement and distribution of treatments for neglected diseases, such as Chagas, sleeping sickness and malaria.
"The act of humanitarianism comes down to one thing: individual human beings reaching out to those others who find themselves in the most difficult circumstances. And they reach out one bandage at a time, one suture at a time, one vaccination at a time. Humanitarian responsibility has no frontiers"
Dr James Orbinski, Nobel Peace Prize speech
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