Médicins Sans Frontières (http://www.msf.org/) is an international humanitarian aid organisation providing emergency medical aid in more than 80 countries. (Registered UK Charity number 1026588).
Médicins Sans Frontières was founded in 1971 by a small group of French doctors and journalists who believed that all people should have access to emergency relief. MSF was one of the first non-governmental organisations to provide urgently needed medical assistance and to publicly bear witness to the plight of the people it helps.
Today, MSF is an international medical humanitarian movement with branch offices in 19 countries. In 2005, MSF volunteers doctors, nurses, other medical professionals, logistical experts and water-and-sanitation engineers departed on more than 3,800 missions and joined approximately 22,500 locally hired staff to provide medical aid in over 70 countries.