Medicins Sans Frontieres

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MSF volunteers around the world give life-saving medical assistance to people who would otherwise be denied access to even the most basic health care.

The projects

Working overseas with MSF in often very difficult conditions, is tough and demanding but the rewards are immense.

MSF is increasingly active in areas of conflict and post-conflict, such as Sudan, Liberia and Rwanda; countries where great numbers of people have been displaced by internal conflicts and war, and where the medical facilities are inadequate. Placements in these areas can be dangerous but our strict security policies ensure that risks to project workers are minimised.

The medical activities vary with each project, ranging from simple curative work and mother-child care, to surgery and epidemic control.

Although MSF is pre-eminently a medical organisation, it would not be able to operate without the support from its technical staff, such as logistics experts, building engineers and water and sanitation experts. Dilapidated or destroyed hospitals and clinics need to be rebuilt and adequate sanitary facilities are essential to prevent the spread of epidemics or the occurrence of disease.

Countries

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About Medecins Sans Frontieres

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was born out of the exasperation of a group of French doctors working in desperate conditions in the Biafra War in the early 1970s. They were determined to create a movement to deliver independent humanitarian aid wherever it was needed, and particularly one that would speak out about the plight of the victims it helped.

Thirty years later, MSF is now an international medical aid agency with a reputation of not only being the first to arrive in a crisis-hit area, but often, the only organisation to be there at all. The movement was awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize.

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