Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders

MSF is one of the world’s leading independent international medical relief organizations, working in close to 60 countries worldwide and with operational centres and national offices in 19 countries. For more than 40 years, we have been providing medical help to people caught in many kinds of catastrophes, including armed conflicts, disasters such as floods and earthquakes, epidemics of disease and malnutrition crises. We launch our operations in areas where there is no medical infrastructure or where the existing one cannot withstand the pressure to which it is subjected. In most cases, relief programmes change to rehabilitation projects that may run for several years after the most urgent needs have been met.