Doctors Without Borders facts for kids

Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a non profitable international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. MSF gives emergency aid to people affected by wars, epidemics, famine, natural disasters and man-made disasters, or areas where there is no health care available. It provides this help to all people, regardless of their race, religion or political beliefs.

In 1999 Doctors Without Borders was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On 7 October 2015, President Barack Obama, also Nobel Peace Prize winner and at that time commander in chief, issued an apology to Doctors Without Borders for Kunduz hospital airstrike.

Images for kids

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  Aerial photograph of a Mihanda, Zaire refugee camp in 1996. Pictured are 500+ tents set up in the Mitumba Mountains.

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  An MSF outpost in Darfur (2005)

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  A Médecins Sans Frontières staff member adjusts Dr. Joel Montgomery, Team Lead for CDC's Ebola Response Team in Liberia, goggles before Dr. Montgomery enters the Ebola treatment unit (ETU), ELWA 3. MSF operates the ELWA 3 ETU, which opened on August 17.

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  MSF logistician in Nigeria showing plans

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  Doctors from MSF and the American CDC put on protective gear before entering an Ebola treatment ward in Liberia, August 2014

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  An MSF health worker examines a malnourished child in Ethiopia, July 2011

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  James Orbinski speaking about MSF in 2015.

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In Spanish: Médicos Sin Fronteras para niños