Medicins du Monde

Doctors of the World grew out of the French Doctors movement, consisting of a small group of physicians who were no longer able to stay silent in the face of the human rights violations they were witnessing. Out of a desire to bring help to the victims of the Biafra (Nigerian province) war of independence, many doctors had joined the Red Cross. In 1971 a number of them opposed to maintaining the silence and neutrality required by the Red Cross created an association with more scope to speak up and to act, Doctors Without Borders. A group of fifteen doctors decided to create a new association whose mandate was to both provide care and bear witness. Doctors of the World was thus born in France in March 1980. Setting up the first association launched a dynamic force which resulted in the creation of a number of Doctors of the World associations in Europe, North and South America and Asia.

Migrants’access to healthcare
European Observatory
AIDS
Medical care