 |
Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, international, not-for-profit,
humanitarian organisation whose objective is to provide assistance to populations
in distress.
Médecins Sans Frontières delivers emergency aid to the victims
of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others
who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation. Médecins
Sans Frontières provides primary health care, performs surgery, rehabilitates
hospitals and clinics, runs nutrition and sanitation programmes, trains local
medical personnel, and provides mental health care. Through longer-term programs
its teams treat diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, sleeping sickness and
HIV/AIDS.
Médecins Sans Frontières teams are working in 70 countries running
hundreds of projects.
Annually, some 3,000 volunteer expatriate doctors, nurses and support staff,
from 45 different nations, go to the field where they work alongside 15,000 locally
recruited staff. In 2003 Médecins Sans Frontières Australia placed
113 volunteers in the field.
Médecins Sans Frontières recruits doctors (general), emergency
physicians, public health physicians, surgeons, paediatricians, anaesthetists,
nurses, midwives, psychologists, medical scientists, logisticians, admin/finance
professionals.
View
a brief history of Médecins Sans Frontières and world events
View
an interactive map of places where we are active around the world
 How
to contact us
|
