Doctors Without Borders Research

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian organization helping people in countries of the greatest need. Usually focusing on assisting underdeveloped countries, they deliver emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or suffer exclusion from health care. This goal is astonishing, since numerous countries are dealing with devastation due to war or overall lack of resources. Nevertheless, with the history and background of this organization, they are doing a phenomenal job at accomplishing it. Operating mostly on donations, the organization tries to garner attention by informing the public of what they do and why it is important in making their mission possible.

The civil war in Nepal has had a very negative impact on the quality of medical care for the civilians, and also tourists. It is said that during this time the Maoist’s destroyed 40 health posts from 2002 to 2004, and many others were considered unusable. The Maoist Party also cut off electricity to a hospital in eastern Nepal because the army was using the hospitals electrical supply as a power source (Ghimere 1494). The Maoists creating a disruption in transportation for long

Samantha Nutt, a medical doctor and co-founder of War Child, narrates her sixteen years of experience traveling in conflict zones struggling to help the most vulnerable targets, women and children. Her book “Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid” strings that bind Western nations to war torn countries and simultaneously critiques the serve of militarism and misguided aid efforts, which she believes to exacerbate their mission in bringing relief from poverty and conflict. The author analyzes from her multiple trips to war zone nations of Congo, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan.

Although some areas in Afghanistan and Iraq have improved and schools have been established, the United States has not done enough to help the people there. For example, the United States issued propaganda after the September 11 attacks that called for the liberation of women in Afghanistan. American citizens rallied in support of this movement and also supported the war because of it. Although some conditions have improved for women, the United States did not do as much as they said they would (Stabile). In addition, the opium trade has worsened in Afghanistan since the arrival of American troops; the country produces twice as much opium as it did in 2000 (Aikins). The War on Terror has also caused millions of innocent civilians’

In conclusion, that's why I think the U.S should accept more refugees into the country. Many people are being affected with all the violence and all are in need of medical help that the U.S can provide to

An Afghan hospital run by Doctors without Borders, who go by their French acronym MSF, was hit by an airstrike from the United States led coalition in early October. It had been reported that members of the Taliban were using the hospital, and Afghan forces asked the United States led coalition to call in an air strike. MSF and the Pentagon were both conducting their own investigations of this tragedy with details to be released this week. MSF followed through on releasing new information; the Pentagon has yet to release any details. The commander of the war in Afghanistan, Army General John Campbell, had announced that the United States military planned to release the initial findings within 30 days, but

The Doctors Without Borders organization claims that the hospital was hit by “a series of aerial bombing raids at approximately 15 minute intervals” between 2:08AM and 3:15AM on October 3. The hospital was in turmoil.

In 1997 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MSF fights for access to Rwandan refugees and denounces massacres and human rights violations by North Korea. In the same year in Afghanistan, MSF teams in Kabul are fighting for the law that prevents women from accessing health

I was gifted a ticket, to anywhere. Past, present, future, anything my mind could imagine, this ticket could get me. Although there was a certain lure to watching the sunset on a beach in Jamaica, or spending copious amounts of money shopping in New York, I found myself using my once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to South Sudan working as a nurse for Doctors Without Borders. However once there I discovered my passion, and drive, and ambition that went beyond working in a hospital. My future awaited me.

The Doctors without Borders organization was founded in 1971 in Paris due to the efforts of French doctors that originally worked for the Red Cross in Biafra during its civil war. The doctors were frustrated by the treatment of the Nigerian Troops’ to aid workers. Thus, upon returning to France, some doctors broke their contracts with the Red Cross and began to provide humanitarian aid not in conjunction with the regulations of the Red Cross. The doctors were firm believers that, “all people should have the right to medical care and that the needs of these people supersede respect for national borders” (MSF, 2001). During the same time period, a group of French journalists were trying to focus the attention of the world to people who were struggling and dying from natural disasters in countries like Iran and Afghanistan. These journalists believed that French doctors should help out with these natural disasters. In conjunction with the journalists, the doctors formed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Starting from 1971, they have had a huge impact in helping shape history. A major event in the history of Doctors without Borders was helping

In Afghanistan, the health system is in critical condition. The health care system is “characterized by inadequate infrastructure, and dilapidated facilities unevenly distributed across the country… chronic shortage of skilled health

Nations affected by wars and armed conflicts have experienced severe public health consequences deteriorated by population’s displacement internally and externally to adjacent countries, food shortage, and inefficiency and failure of basic health services. All previous factors will give rise to the term complex humanitarian emergencies. These public health changes are reported to be more severe in developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. And because of the formed situation created by these factors, refugees and internally displaced persons have high mortality rate during the period immediately after their migration (Toole & Waldman, 1997).

Human rights violations occur all around the world on a daily basis. Despite the Universal declaration of human rights (UDHR) to safeguard the rights of all human beings, some states are still dragging their feet to implement the basic rights their citizens are entitled to. So, to advocate for people whose rights have been denied, many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have taken upon themselves to work and promote social and political change. These NGOs play an important part in improving communities, and advocating for citizen participation. In that sense, Doctors without borders, mostly known as Medecins sans Fontieres (MSF), has gained a lot of praise for its work for helping people in need, and acting as an instrument of reducing poverty worldwide.

Although volunteers for Medecins Sans Frontiers are commonly stationed in various countries with a dire healthcare worker shortage, regions with refugee camps and internally displaced persons are also a focus for this organization. Refugees and internally displaced persons often come from war torn regions and live in close confines with poor sanitation and limited resources. These living situations become a breeding ground for diseases and other health issues like malnutrition, yet the individuals lack access to any sort of healthcare. The organization also responds quickly when regions suddenly experience an increased need for healthcare, for example in times of an epidemic or a natural disaster. Medecins Sans Frontiers’ involvement across its varying regions and their attempt to address a broad spectrum of healthcare truly show how altruistic the organization is to individuals regardless of race, gender, or religion.

TYPE A PROJECT--MSF is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organization that aims first and foremost to provide high-quality medical care to the people who need it the most. It does not promote the agenda of any country, political party, or religious faith, and, as such, endeavors to communicate its history, background, and capabilities to all parties in a given situation so that it may gain the necessary access to populations in need..On any given day, more than 30,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professionals working with MSF can be found providing medical care around the world..In 2012, MSF medical teams carried out more than 8.3 million outpatient consultations; delivered more than 185,000 babies; treated more than 1.6 million people for malaria; treated nearly 350,000 severely and moderately malnourished children; provided some 284,000 people living with HIV/AIDS with antiretroviral therapy; conducted more than 78,000 surgeries, and vaccinated 690,000 against measles and 496,000 against meningitis