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Medecins Sans Frontieres (France)
Mission: "MSF is an independent humanitarian medical aid agency committed to two objectives: providing medical aid wherever needed, regardless of race, religion, politics or sex and raising awareness of the plight of the people we help."
In China since: 1994
Annual China budget: $1,000,000
Number of staff: 40 national and 13 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Max-antoine Grolleron
10-1-42 Dong San Jie, San Li Tun Diplomatic Compoud
Beijing, 100600
Tel: +86 (10) 8532 3256/47
Fax: +86 (10) 8532-3245
International Contact:
Pierre Salignon
Programme Co-ordinator
8 rue Saint Sabin
Paris 75011
France
Tel: +33 1 40 21 2929
Fax: +33 1 40 26 6868
Established in Paris in 1971, MSF’s founders included journalists and doctors who were disturbed by the failure of international humanitarian agencies to prevent genocide in Biafra. They set out to create an emergency medical aid organisation that not only provides direct assistance but also speaks its own mind, drawing public attention to humanitarian crises and denouncing human rights abuses wherever it encounters them. Over the years, this forthright approach has brought MSF into conflict with several national governments – including the French Foreign Ministry – and with international pharmaceutical companies that MSF has criticised for failing to reduce drug prices in developing country markets. But the organisation has also won many accolades and awards for its work, including, in 1999, the Nobel Peace Prize.
From the early 1980s, doctors in other European countries began to establish their own MSF sections, which are registered as legal entities in their own countries but work together with a shared approach and mission. There are now five operational organizations that implement humanitarian projects – France, Belgium/Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland –and partner organisations in a dozen other countries that raise funds, recruit volunteers and carry out public information and advocacy activities to promote MSF’s values.
The operational sections responds to both natural and man-made humanitarian disasters, including war and famines. They mobilise volunteer health professionals, medical and relief supplies to assist victims and refugees. In some countries MSF engages in longer-term projects to strengthen essential public health services. It also views the global HIV/AIDS epidemic as an international humanitarian crisis, and has been active in many countries in prevention, treatment and advocacy programmes.
During the 1990s, MSF France worked in disaster relief across China, initiated a long-term health care programme in Guangxi, and worked to improve care and protection for street children in Baoji, Shaanxi.
Currently, the organisation is concentrating its resources on HIV/AIDS work, especially in Guangxi, where at the end of 2003 it began a pilot treatment and care project for HIV positive people.
In 2003, MSF France’s total income EUR 97 million. Of this, 35% was raised from the French public (including bequests); 30% was donated by fundraising partners in other countries, and 12% came through ‘institutional grants’ from governments and multilateral donors.
Links
http://www.msf.fr
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