Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) is an
international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors
and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides aid in
nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by
violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict,
epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural
disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those
most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring
attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse
of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments
and protocols. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.