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Journal du Mois - Janvier 2012 MSFCanada 36 views Une attaque sur MSF en Somalie. 20.000 réfugiés du nord, fuient vers le Sud-Soudan. Améliorer la détection de la tuberculose au Cambodge. Travailleurs du village à améliore...
Month in Focus - January 2012 MSFCanada 46 views Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders' monthly video digest of updates from recent field activities. An attack on MSF field teams in Somalia. 20,000 ref...
MSF en Haïti : deux ans après MSFCanada 163 views Deux ans après le terrible séisme qui a dévasté Port-au-Prince, près de 500 000 Haïtiens vivent toujours dans des conditions d'extrême précarité. MSF s'efforce toujours d'e...
MSF in Haiti: Two Years on MSFCanada 345 views Two years after the devastating earthquake in Port-au-Prince, nearly 500,000 displaced Haitians are still living in extremely precarious conditions. MSF is still working to...
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4 - PMTCT - La Journée mondiale du sida 2011 MSFCanada 155 views
6 - Peut-être que je vais survivre - La Journée mondiale du sida 2011 MSFCanada 135 views
7 - Retourne à la normale - La Journée mondiale du sida 2011 MSFCanada 31 views 1* patient
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About Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders Canada

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, was established in 1971 by a small group of French doctors. Today, MSF is the world's leading independent international medical relief organisation.

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Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was established in 1971 by a small group of French doctors who had worked in Biafra. Upon their return, they were determined to find a way to respond rapidly and effectively to public health emergencies, with complete independence from political, economic and religious influences.

Today, we are the world's leading independent international medical relief organisation.

Our mandate concerns emergency relief, and the principles we honour while carrying out our work are contained in the MSF Charter. 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 programs change to rehabilitation projects that may run for several years after the most urgent needs have been met.

For more than 35 years, we have been providing medical help to people caught in many kinds of catastrophes: armed conflicts, natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, epidemics of disease, and famines. All these situations call for rapid response with specialised medical and logistical help. We are renowned for our quick response and efficient, effective work in the toughest emergencies. Beyond the drama of the acute crisis, we also intervene in times that call for a less urgent type of action, for instance, in chronic refugees situations, areas of chronic instability, and in periods following a conflict or disaster. The action we take comes in multiple forms: * Emergency public health care, including medicine and surgery * Mass vaccination campaigns * Water and sanitation systems * Therapeutic and supplementary nutrition * Distribution of drugs and supplies * Training and health education * Organisation or rehabilitation of health structures * Medical assistance within existing health structures

We observe impartiality in the name of medical ethics and the right to humanitarian assistance. To ensure this independence, an important part of our funding for projects comes from donations from the public, as well as from corporations and foundations. Additional funding comes from national governments and international institutions, such as the Canadian International Development Agency [CIDA], European Community and various bodies of the United Nations.

In carrying out humanitarian assistance, we act as witnesses and will speak out, in private or in public, about the plights of the populations in danger for whom we work. In doing so, we seek to alleviate human suffering, to protect life and health, and to restore and ensure respect for human beings and their fundamental human rights.

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