Medici Senza Frontiere

About Medici Senza Frontiere

Founded in Paris in 1971 by a group of doctors and journalists, Doctors Without Borders is now the largest independent medical humanitarian aid organization. The goal of MSF is to bring aid to populations in danger and to bear witness to their situation. Every day, more than 25,000 humanitarian workers are engaged in assisting populations involved in various crisis contexts. They are doctors, nurses, logistics experts, administrators, engineers, architects, epidemiologists, laboratory technicians, and psychologists. For MSF, the decision to intervene is based solely on an independent assessment of needs, without any political, economic, or religious conditioning. In 1999, Doctors Without Borders was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.