你可能早就知道，但我确实才知道，MSF，指的是无国界医生组织。
因为埃博拉，MSF频繁出现，想了半天没想明白是什么，一查才知道MSF是法语Médecins Sans Frontières，指的是无国界医生组织（Doctors Without Borders）。
MSF于１９７１年１２月２０日在巴黎成立，是一个由各国专业医学人员组成的国际性的志愿者组织，是全球最大的独立人道医疗救援组织，资金主要由私人捐助。该组织派出志愿医护和后勤人员到受到天灾、战乱、发生疫症的地区，为战争、疫症及天灾的受害者、提供紧急医药救援，亦为一些医疗设施不足甚至完全缺乏的地区提供基本医疗和手术、重建医院和药房、推动营养和卫生项目及培训当地医护人员。
无国界医生组织的宗旨是：无国界医生的救援行动无分种族﹑政治及宗教目标为受天灾、人祸及战火影响的受害者提供援助。无国界医生严格遵守国际医疗守则，及坚守提供人道援助的权利，并且保持中立不偏之立场。该组织在世界许多国家共有几千名志愿人员，他们由医生、护士、麻醉师、实验室技术人员、后勤人员、助产士、行政人员组成。他们的共同目标是协助那些受战火及自然灾害蹂躏的灾民脱离困境。所有的志愿工作者都遵从“无国界医生组织”宗旨，贡献着自己的专业知识，平等地对待不同种族及宗教背景的人士。１９９９年１０月１５日，该组织因“一直坚持使灾难受害者享有获得迅速而有效的专业援助的权利”而获得当年度诺贝尔和平奖。
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.
Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of neutrality and impartiality.
A worldwide movement
MSF was founded in Paris, France in 1971. Its principles are described in the organisation's founding charter. It is a non-profit, self-governed organisation.
Today, MSF is a worldwide movement of 24 associations, bound together as MSF International, based in Switzerland.
Thousands of health professionals, logistical and administrative staff – most of whom are hired locally – work on programmes in some 70 countries worldwide.
Humanitarian action
MSF's work is based on humanitarian principles. We are committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation.
MSF operates independently. We conduct our own evaluations on the ground to determine people’s needs. More than 90 per cent of our overall funding comes from millions of private sources, not governments.
MSF is neutral. We do not take sides in armed conflicts, we provide care on the basis of need, and we push for independent access to victims of conflict as required under international humanitarian law.
Bearing witness and speaking out
MSF medical teams often witness violence and neglect in the course of their work, largely in regions that receive scant international attention.
At times, MSF may speak out publicly in an effort to bring a forgotten crisis to public attention, to alert the public to abuses occurring beyond the headlines, to criticise the inadequacies of the aid system, or to challenge the diversion of humanitarian aid for political interests.
Quality medical care
MSF rejects the idea that poor people deserve third-rate medical care and strives to provide high-quality care to patients. In 1999, when MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the organisation announced the money would go towards raising awareness of and fighting against neglected diseases.
Through the Access Campaign, and in partnership with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, this work has helped lower the price of HIV/AIDS treatment and stimulated research and development for medicines to treat malaria and neglected diseases like sleeping sickness and kala azar.
Source: http://www.msf.org/about-msf
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