Doctors Without Borders

is an global humanitarian-aid, non-governmental organization (NGO) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, well known for its missions in war-torn areas and developing countries facing widespread diseases. It was originated in France. In 2015, over 30,000, generally local doctors, nurses and other medical practitioners, logistical specialists, water and sanitation engineers and officers, provided medical help in more than 70 countries. These doctors and nurses were determined to volunteer their time to resolve issues of world health. Private donors give about 80% of the organization's funding, while commercial donations provide the rest, giving MSF an yearly budget of around US$610 million. 

Médecins Sans Frontières was founded in 1971, in the outcome of the Biafra secession, by a tiny group of French doctors and journalists who understood that all people have the right to medical care despite of race, religion, faith or political association, and that the needs of these people overshadow respect for national borders. Core documents outlining MSF's doctrine are the agreement, the Chantilly philosophy, and the later La Mancha contract. Authority is tackled in Section 2 of the Rules segment of this final document. MSF has an associative arrangement, where operational decisions are made, mainly autonomously, by the five operational centres (Amsterdam, Barcelona-Athens, Brussels, Geneva and Paris). General policies on core subjects are synchronized by the International Council, in which each of the 24 sections (national offices) is signified. The International Council assembles in Geneva, Switzerland, where the International Office, that manages international activities regular to the operational centres, is also located.

The organization aggressively provides health care and medical training to populations in more than 70 countries and recurrently insists on political accountability in conflict zones such as Chechnya and Kosovo. Only once in its history, during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the organization has called for military interference. In order to be able to speak and perform freely, MSF remains sovereign of any political, religious or economic powers. MSF has broad consultative position with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. It acknowledged the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize in appreciation of its members' continuous efforts to offer medical care in acute crises, as well as raising worldwide awareness of possible humanitarian tragedies. James Orbinski who accepted the prize on behalf of MSF, was the president of the organization at the period of time.  Earlier than this, MSF also received the 1996 Seoul Peace Prize. 

Ongoing missions

The Campaign for entrée to Essential Medicines was formed in late 1999, giving MSF with a new voice with which to convey awareness to the lack of effective treatments and vaccines accessible in developing countries. In 1999, the organisation also spoke out about the short of humanitarian support in Kosovo and Chechnya, having arranged field missions to help civilians affected by the relevant political situations. Though MSF had worked in the Kosovo region ever since 1993, the beginning of the Kosovo War encouraged the movement of tens of thousands of refugees, and a decline in appropriate living conditions. MSF offered shelter, water and health care to civilians affected by NATO’s calculated bombing campaigns. 

A severe crisis within MSF exploded in connection with the organization's effort in Kosovo when the Greek segment of MSF was barred from the organization. The Greek MSF section had got access to Serbia at the cost of accommodating Serb government forced limits on where it could go and what it could see – conditions that the rest of the MSF movement had declined. A non-MSF source assumed that the exclusion of the Greek section occurred because its members extended help to both Albanian and Serbian civilians in Pristina through NATO's bombing, The crack was healed only in 2005 with the re-admission of the Greek segment to MSF.