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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