28 Incredible Web Sites About Doctors Without Borders
Written by Dayna at 07:15 am on 14th November, 2011 Global Health
Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has come to symbolize the best that humanity can offer to others who need help. Now assisting others in over 70 countries, MSF frequently insists on political responsibility in conflict zones such as Chechnya and Kosovo. Only once in its history, during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, has the organization called for military intervention. Otherwise, MSF remains independent of any political, religious or economic powers. The following list contains the majority of the English-speaking MSF sites and another list of other organizations that either provide help to MSF or that offers other types of public health care to the world from various origins, including the U.S.
Doctors Without Borders
- Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in nearly 70 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.
- Facebook: The official Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) English-language page.
- Medecins Sans Fronteires: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters.
- Michael Goldfarb: Michael is the media relations manager for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-USA.
- MSF Access: Officially known as Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, this effort pushes governments, International Government Institutions, the Pharmaceutical Industry and other NGOs to confront the injustice of medicinal discrepancies. “Some of the reasons that people die from diseases like AIDS, TB, Sleeping Sickness and other tropical diseases is that life saving essential medicines are either too expensive, are not available because they are not seen as financially viable, or because there is virtually no new research and development for priority tropical diseases.”
- MSF USA: The U.S. office of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries.
- Tumblr: The English-language “blog” for MSF. Activities, statements and articles about malnutrition, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Haiti and HIV/AIDS await readers.
- YouTube: In the world’s newest country, three out of four people have no access to basic health care. Women and children bear the brunt of this neglect: many women do not survive pregnancy or childbirth, and children die from preventable diseases and malnutrition.
Other Sites
- Acupuncturists Without Borders: AWB’s vision is to foster the creation of stable, peaceful global communities through its community-based acupuncture services and training which interrupt the cycles of unresolved trauma.
- Birth Without Borders: Birth Without Borders is the vision of a group of dedicated women who have been intricately involved in the International Birthing and public health community for years.
- Caring Beyond Borders: This Facebook page carries a number of true stories about dedicated nurses from around the world. It also represents the book, Nurses Beyond Borders, an anthology filled with nurses’ stories.
- Chemists Without Borders: This organization is a public benefit, non-profit, international humanitarian organization designed to alleviate human suffering through the use of proven chemical technologies and related skills.
- Counselors Without Borders: Counselors Without Borders is a committed to provide culturally responsive humanitarian counseling in post-disaster emergency situations.
- Dentists Without Borders: This organization is a registered non-profit charitable international volunteer organization started in 2003.
- Engineers Without Borders – Public Health Chapter at GWU: This Facebook page is home to a chapter of Engineers Without Borders, an organization that consists of professionals and students from a variety of professions including engineering, public health, anthropology and business.
- Health For All: Under the heading of ‘Health without Borders’, the Wemos Foundation and Nyenrode Business Universiteit are working together to make healthcare in the Netherlands more sustainable. Their aim in doing so is to help to improve the access to care elsewhere in the world.
- Healthcare Without Borders: The purpose of HWB is to help underserved and underdeveloped areas of the world by providing health care related materials and expertise.
- Knitters Without Borders: Also known as “Tricoteuses Sans Frontières,” this site and effort was born as a response to the tsunami disaster on December 26th 2004, but exists to fundraise for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders.
- Medics Without Borders: MWB is a non-profit organization that began providing Emergency Medical Services (EMS) training and health education programs in Ghana in 2008. From the beginning, MWB focused on providing health education in the country by focusing on interest groups who have direct access to and influence on large audiences.
- Naturopathic Doctors Without Borders: This organization’s goal is to provide naturopathic health care to impoverished communities, while empowering those communities through education, supporting growth and cultivating sustainable resources.
- Patients Beyond Borders: Patients Beyond Borders is the world’s most trusted source of consumer information about international medical and health travel.
- Pharmaciens Sans Frontières Comité International: PSFCI is the largest humanitarian association in the world specialized in the pharmaceutical sector. Founded in 1985 to retrieve unused drugs from chemists for use in developing countries, PSFCI extended its objectives to help the developing countries set up a local adapted health care system.
- Psychology Beyond Borders: PBB is committed to international leadership in evidence-informed psychosocial preparedness, prevention and response to disasters, armed conflict and terrorism.
- Scientists Without Borders: This organization is an initiative that aims to mobilize and coordinate science-based, capacity-building efforts in the developing world. The Scientists Without Borders ecosystem includes individuals and organizations working on science and technology-based activities at all levels of academia, NGOs, government, and the private sector, across a variety of regions, disciplines, and subject matter areas.
- Specialists Without Borders: SWB is an Australia-based non-profit organization with the aim of improving health outcomes and enhancing the sustainability of medical service provision in developing countries.
- Surgery Without Borders: CSF is an organization that originates from the need to contribute to those patients that, because of several limiting factors such as economical condition, geographic location, cultural differences, biologic disease and because of lack of private insurance, have difficulty reaching the medical system in the U.S.
- Vets Beyond Borders: This is an Australian based organization, not for profit, established by veterinary volunteers in 2003. They run veterinary based animal welfare and public health programs in developing communities in the Asia Pacific region.
- Workplace Health Without Borders: In the Spring of 2011,a group of occupational hygienists and other activists came together in Toronto to found Workplace Health Without Borders, a not-for-profit organization,to address issues surrounding workplace safety.
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