Doctors Without Borders is an independent, emergency medical aid organization that helps people worldwide, regardless of their origin, religion or political beliefs. She offers help where help is needed most. This means that Doctors Without Borders is mainly concerned with helping victims of disasters, wars and epidemics. Doctors Without Borders needs your help to continue providing support to people in developing countries and disaster areas. So become a donor now or make a donation!
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- What is Doctors Without Borders?
- What does Doctors Without Borders do?
- More than emergency aid
- Support Doctors Without Borders
What is Doctors Without Borders?
Doctors Without Borders is an independent, emergency medical aid organization. Doctors Without Borders helps people worldwide, regardless of their origin, religion or political beliefs. Saving lives is a priority for Doctors Without Borders and to this end they provide medical assistance to victims of disasters, wars and epidemics. MSF sends its own teams of doctors, nurses and other specialists to these areas and this way MSF can act as quickly and effectively as possible. On site they provide direct support to the population, together with employees from the countries themselves.
What does Doctors Without Borders do?
Doctors Without Borders offers help where help is needed most. This means that Doctors Without Borders is mainly concerned with helping victims of disasters, wars and epidemics. This can range from basic medical care to emergency surgery, from providing vaccinations to psychosocial care, from distributing relief supplies to installing water and hygiene facilities. But even advocating and campaigning for better, affordable medicines is part of MSF’s work.
Doctors Without Borders works with mobile aid stations, which they use to visit people who would otherwise not be able to receive medical care. MSF also performs emergency operations and treats people with diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria , diseases that still kill many people in developing countries every day despite the fact that medical treatment is available. Doctors Without Borders also guides pregnant women during childbirth, they give AIDS inhibitors to people infected with the HIV virus and they help women who are victims of sexual violence, a common problem, especially in war zones.
Doctors Without Borders is not only concerned with treatment but also with prevention. They therefore try to improve hygienic conditions in the areas and provide clean drinking water to prevent the outbreak of epidemics.
More than emergency aid
In 1999, Doctors Without Borders received the Nobel Peace Prize. Doctors Without Borders received this Nobel Prize not only for its medical work but also for its role as an advocate for people and population groups in need. In many areas where MSF works, human rights are being violated on a large scale. In those areas, emergency medical care alone is not sufficient. Doctors Without Borders therefore also acts as an advocate. They do this, for example, by addressing those in power, from governments to international organizations, and by speaking out publicly about the abuses they encounter in their work.
Support Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders needs your help to continue providing support to people in developing countries and disaster areas. Therefore, become a donor now or make a one-off donation.