Research topic: Doctors Without Borders

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Doctors Without Borders

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Doctors Without Borders Fr. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), international organization that provides emergency medical assistance to people suffering from a natural or societal disaster, such as an earthquake or war. MSF was founded (1971) by a group of French doctors who felt that much international aid was often medically inadequate and too easily obstructed by legal obstacles. The group now has more than 2,000 persons providing medical care in 80 countries; MSF personnel also seek to focus media attention on problems and injustices in the areas where they serve. The organization... Read more
Doctors Without Borders
...independently of governments, the organization depends on volunteer health professionals (more than 2,000 annually) and private donations. It received the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize. Doctors Without Borders Doctors Without Borders Doctors Without Borders Read more
Bernard Kouchner
...humanitarian intervention, Kouchner was (1971) a founder of Doctors Without Borders and served as its president until 1979. That year he founded a similar humanitarian group, Doctors of the World, was its president (1980-88), and organized... Read more

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