Doctors Without Borders is an independent
international humanitarian organization committed to bring help to people who
really need it without discrimination of race, religion or public convictions.
It was created in 1971, in France, by young doctors and journalists, who acted as volunteers in the end of the sixties. While the medical team rescued victims in a brutal civil war, the group noticed the limitations of the international humanitarian help: the difficulty of access to the location and the burocratic and politic obstacles made many keep quiet in front of the observed facts. MSF then arises like a humanitarian organization which associates medical help and public sensibilization about the suffering of its pacients, bringing to light realities which can’t be neglected anymore. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Today, more than 34 thousand of
professionals, from different areas and nacionalities, make up the
organization. Scattered over 70 countries, they act in contexts that involve
human and natural disasters, conflicts, epidemics, malnutrition and exclusion
of the access to health. Currently MSF, is one of the biggest non governmental
organizations in the world
MSF arrived in Brazil in 1991, to combat
a cholera epidemic in Amazonia. After the control of the outbreak, the
organization stayed in the region until 2002, promoting a preventive medicine
work with indigenous tribes
In 2006, MSF established its office in
the country and recently created the Brazilian Medical Unit, whose goal is to
enable and train MSF professionals to improve its action in the projects
Source:http://www.msf.org.br/
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