Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. They provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Their teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, and logistic and administrative staff - bound together by our charter. Their actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation. MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, MSF are a worldwide movement of nearly 68,000 people. War, violence, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, rising inflation and spiralling prices; factors all contributed to an overall increase in people’s needs, to which nearly 68,000 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff responded in more than 75 countries around the world in 2022.
Speaking to Asian Voice, Chloe Marshall-Denton, Humanitarian Advisor on force migration said, “MSF has a long history of assisting people displaced by conflict, persecution, natural disasters, and destitution. With the number of internally and internationally displaced people on the rise in the last years, MSF continues to respond to increasing needs in settings of internal displacement, in countries neighbouring conflict areas, as well as along migration routes. We see first-hand how people’s health and well-being are often undermined by inadequate access to healthcare, safe accommodation and food in displacement settings, and further put at risk by violence during flight and a lack of protection and exclusionary policies on arrival. MSF responds to the needs to which displacement, and the responses to it, have given rise through the provision of medical-humanitarian assistance, including healthcare, psychological support, sanitation, food, relief items and shelter to people in need at varying stages of their displacement.”
