Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.
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- Founded:
- 1971
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MSF is an international movement made up of 19 associative organizations. Learn more about your local office:
www.msf.org
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
www.msf.ca
msf.org.uk
msf.org.au
www.aerzteohnegrenzen.at
www.msf.be
msf.org.br
www.msf.dk
www.msf.fr
aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de
www.msf.gr
artsenzondergrenzen.nl
msf.org.hk
www.msf.it
msf.or.jp
www.msf.lu
www.leger-uten-grenser.no
msf.org.za
www.msf.es
www.lakareutangranser.se
www.msf.ch
msfuae.ae
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
The story of Jerry, a seven year old boy seriously injured in
the earthquake that devastated his hometown of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Jerry is seven years old. On January 12, he was seriously injured in the earthquake that devastated his hometown of Port-au-Prince, suffering a severe open fracture to his femur when his house collapsed. Jerry’s mother, Louismerre, lost two of her five children in the quake. ...
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) The first two weeks in Haiti through the eyes of three MSF aid workers.
As medical assistance moves into a second phase, with conditions finally improving for the practice of surgery and medicine, three MSF staff members describe how the teams treated patients in the ruins of the Delmas district in the immediate aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti...
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, executive director of MSF's Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, explains how ideas like a levy on speculative financial transactions can be life-line in the fight for improved global health. This is his first posting as a regular contributor to the Huffington Post's Impact page.
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The WHO predicts that none of the health-related Millennium Development Goals that the international community had set itself will be met by 2015. Clearly no less than a paradigm shift will do.
What did you do before joining MSF? I was working in the corporate and private sector as a Certified Public Accountant but wanted to transition to working abroad for NGOs, so I went to graduate school to study non-profit administration...
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In Gaza, the effects of last years Operation Cast Lead is still being felt.
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) From Port-au-Prince we bring you a report on MSF's emergency response to the Haiti earthquake; in the first three weeks MSF treated more than 11,000 patients. You'll hear from Haitian and international staff, as well as patients, on the ground. You can subscribe in iTunes here: http://bit.ly/6b7439
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From Port-au-Prince we bring you a report on MSF's emergency response to the Haiti earthquake; in the first three weeks MSF treated more than 11,000 patients. You'll hear from Haitian and international staff, as well as patients, on the ground.
Dr. Philippe Touchard, an anaesthetist, is head of emergencies at the Pasteur Hospital in Langon, near Bordeaux. Forty-eight hours after the January 12 earthquake, he flew to Haiti to reinforce MSF’s surgical teams in Port-au-Prince. ...
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