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Medecins du Monde
Mission: "To provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations when they are faced with crisis or exclusion from society, the world over, including France."
In China since: 1988
Annual China budget: $750,000
Number of staff: 19 national and 5 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
青海 810000西宁市南山路68号1单元161室
68 Nanshan Road, Xining
Qinghai 810000
Tel: +86 (0)971 8589 9591
Fax: +86 (0) 971 8304 4670
Chengdu Centre for Disease Control
四川省610021成都市烟袋巷58号成都市疾病预防中心
58, Yandai Xiang
Chengdu, Sichuan 610021
Tel: +86 (0)28 8666 8936
International Contact:
Christian Trevgoda
62 rue Marcadet
Paris 75018
France
Tel: +33 1 44 921 515
Fax: +33 1 44 929 992
Activities in Other Countries:
54 countries worldwide
Médecins du Monde was established in France in 1980 by some of the founding members of Médecins Sans Frontières (see separate entry). The new organisation’s first international mission was to fit a ship, L’Isle de Lumière, that sailed in international waters providing humanitarian assistance to Vietnamese ‘boat people’ refugees. Other missions provided medical aid to civilians in Cold War conflict zones, including Afghanistan and El Salvador. MdM has since responded to humanitarian emergencies in many countries, providing medical care following conflict or natural disasters, and also running primary health care and HIV/AIDS prevention programmes. Since the mid 1980s it has also provided medical assistance to marginalised populations in France, including drug users, sex workers, immigrants and asylum seekers.
As well as its primary mission of providing health care for the needy, MdM sets out to ‘bear witness to impeded access to healthcare and violations of human rights and dignity.’ Supporting organisations in twelve countries of Europe and the Americas help to raise funds, mobilise volunteers and advocate MdM’s values and vision.
MDM first came to China in 1988, initially providing assistance in response to natural disasters. Since 1998 it has worked on primary health care programmes in Qinghai Province and on AIDS prevention in the cities of Shanghai and Chengdu.
The Qinghai programme has set out to improve access to health care for Tibetan nomadic communities. In particular, it aimed to improve reproductive health and reduce the incidence of sickness and mortality due to respiratory diseases. To this end, the project rehabilitated and equipped two county-level hospitals and eight township clinics in Gande County and trained health professionals and Tibetan community health workers, with attention paid to both traditional Tibetan medicine and Western medicine.
In Chengdu, MDM has in the past conducted AIDS information, education and communication campaigns among migrant workers communities. Its current programme works with drug users to raise their awareness and understanding of HIV transmission, promote harm reduction approaches to drug use, and ensure that drug users discharged from detoxification centers have access to adequate health care and support.
In 2003, Médecins du Monde’s total income was EUR 42 million. Of this, 68% was donated by the general public in France, and 29% was in grants from governments and multilateral agencies. Other members of MdM’s international network raised a cumulative total of EUR 75 million.
Links
http://www.medecinsdumonde.org
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