About Doctors Without
Borders
Doctors
Without Borders is the world’s leading independent humanitarian
organisation for medical aid. Annually, some 3,000 volunteer
doctors, nurses and support staff work in trouble spots around
the world.
Doctors
Without Borders are currently in 70 countries, working with
more than 15,000 locally recruited staff in conditions that are
always challenging, sometimes dangerous.
Doctors
Without Borders was formed in 1971 by a group of French doctors
who had previously worked with famine victims in
Biafra.
Doctors
Without Borders seek to focus media attention on problems and
injustices in the areas where they serve. Doctors Without
Borders was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in
1999.
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