Difference between revisions of "Timeline of Médecins Sans Frontières"

! Year !! Event type !! Details !! Country

| 1971 (December 22) || || {{w|Médecins Sans Frontières}} is founded in {{w|Paris}}<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières History"/> by a group of French doctors and journalists in the wake of {{w|Nigerian Civil War}}, and the [[w:Bangladesh famine of 1974|floods in Bangladesh]].<ref name="Founding"/> || {{w|France}}

| 1972 || Assistance || An [[w:1972 Nicaragua earthquake|earthquake in Nicaragua]] marks the first MSF mission in a natural disaster.<ref name="Founding">{{cite web |title=Founding |url=https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/who-we-are/history/founding |website=doctorswithoutborders.org |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Nicaragua}}

| 1974 || Assistance || MSF conducts a relief mission to assist people in {{w|Honduras}} after the devastating {{w|Hurricane Fifi–Orlene}}.<ref name="Founding"/> || {{w|Honduras}}

| 1975 || Assistance || MSF establishes its first large-scale medical program during a refugee crisis in {{w|Cambodia}}, providing medical care for the waves of Cambodians seeking sanctuary from the [[w:Democratic Kampuchea|Khmer Rouge]] regime.<ref>{{cite web |title=FOUNDING OF MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES |url=https://www.msf.org.au/founding-m%C3%A9decins-sans-fronti%C3%A8res |website=msf.org.au |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cambodia}}

| 1976 || Assistance || MSF conducts its first wartime mission in {{w|Lebanon}} and becomes a professional medical emergency organization.<ref>{{cite web |title=Caring for the most vulnerable |url=https://www.msf.org/lebanon-caring-most-vulnerable |website=msf.org |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Lebanon}}

| 1977 || || MSF organizes its first major advertising campaign, featuring a picture of a child, looking into a camera from behind bars.<ref>{{cite web |title=Medecins sans Frontieres looks back at its first four decades |url=https://www.dw.com/en/medecins-sans-frontieres-looks-back-at-its-first-four-decades/a-15614097-0 |website=dw.com |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 1977 || || In spite of having promoted a depoliticized image, MSF representative Claude Malhuret first violates the statutory confidentiality commitment by condemning the “revolutionary crimes” of the {{w|Khmer Rouge}} who, he says, are “exterminating entire segments of the population in the name of some revamped communist ideology”.<ref name="II. History">{{cite web |title=II. History |url=https://www.msf-crash.org/index.php/en/publications/agir-tout-prix-negociations-humanitaires-lexperience-de-msf/ii-history |website=msf-crash.org |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cambodia}}

| 1978 || Assistance || MSF launches various refugee programs in {{w|Thailand}}, in {{w|Djibouti}} during the {{w|Ogaden War}} and Eritrean refugees in {{w|Sudan}}.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Thailand}}, {{w|Djibouti}}, {{w|Sudan}}  

| 1979 || Staff || MSF Co-founder Dr {{w|Bernard Kouchner}} leaves to form a new group, {{w|Médecins du Monde}} (Doctors of the World).<ref name="The MSF timeline">{{cite web |title=The MSF timeline |url=https://www.msf.ie/msf-timeline |website=msf.ie |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 1979 || || MSF moves beyond its {{w|modus operandi}} of sending isolated doctors to crisis zones in favour of creating a more structured organization that can provide quality medical services in crises. The initiative is led by Dr Claude Malhuret and Dr Francis Charhon.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||

| 1979 || || MSF starts working in {{w|Somalia}}, in times of the {{w|Somali Rebellion}}.<ref name="A timeline of MSF in Somalia">{{cite web |title=A timeline of MSF in Somalia |url=https://www.msf.org/timeline-msf-somalia |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Somalia}}

| 1979 || || MSF sets up missions to help civilians in {{w|South Sudan}} affected by starvation and the civil war.<ref name="bionity">{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières |url=https://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res.html |website=bionity.com |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Sudan}}

| 1980 || Assistance || MSF launches its first nutritional program in the midst of drought and civil war in {{w|Karamoja}}, {{w|Uganda}}.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Uganda}}

| 1980 || Assistance || MSF medical teams clandestinely cross the Pakistani–Afghan border and travel by mule for several weeks to reach injured civilians living in remote areas during the {{w|Soviet–Afghan War}}.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Afghanistan}}

| 1980 || Branch || MSF-Belgium is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - Belgium |url=https://www.globalhand.org/en/organisations/21403 |website=globalhand.org |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Belgium}}

| 1981 || || MSF hospitals in Afghanistan are bombarded.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Afghanistan}}

| 1981 || || MSF sets up its first logistics department to coordinate and channel emergency medical relief.<ref name="About MSF">{{cite web |title=About MSF |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/24/christmasappeal2005 |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 1981 || Branch || MSF-Switzerland is established.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF Switzerland |url=https://www.msf.ch/sites/default/files/2018-05/20150611_ap_rapports_activites_ocg_2014_EN_1.pdf |website=msf.ch |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Switzerland}}

| 1982 || Assistance || MSF begins working in Rwanda.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rwandan genocide 25 years on: MSF caught in spiral of extreme violence from Rwanda to Zaire |url=https://www.msf.org/rwandan-genocide-25-years |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Rwanda}}

| 1983 || || MSF France registers the brands "MSF International" and "MSF Europe" in Geneva and modifies its own statutes in order to integrate the possible creation of an MSF international structure.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|France}}

| 1984 || Assistance || MSF starts programs to treat malnutrition in Ethiopia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Famine in Ethiopia |url=https://doctorswithoutborders.tumblr.com/post/3446035108/1984-famine-in-ethiopia-msf-starts-programs-to |website=doctorswithoutborders.tumblr.com |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Ethiopia}}

| 1984 || || MSF establishes office in the {{w|Netherlands}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - Holland |url=https://www.globalhand.org/en/organisations/22911 |website=globalhand.org |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Netherlands}}

| 1984 || || MSF creates the Liberté Sans Frontières (LSF) Foundation, a think-tank on development and human rights issues.<ref name="II. History"/> ||

| 1984 || || MSF Belgium establishes AEDES (Association Européenne pour le Développement et la Santé/European Association for Development and Health) in order to support long-term projects that MSF want to hand over, and to offer more stable jobs for certain MSF employees.<ref>{{cite web |title=AEDES |url=http://associativehistory.msf.org/sites/default/files/AEDES_En.pdf |website=http://associativehistory.msf.org |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Belgium}}

| 1985 || || MSF Belgium opposes the creation by MSF France’s newly formed Liberté Sans Frontières, thus taking a first step towards independence from MSF France.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014">{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014 |url=http://associativehistory.msf.org/sites/default/files/PPP_MSF_historical_VA.pdf |website=associativehistory.msf.org |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Belgium}}

| 1985 || Withdrawal || The {{w|Government from Ethiopia}} expells MSF doctors on accusations for speaking out against Government policies.<ref>{{cite web |title=EXPELLED DOCTORS ACCUSE ETHIOPIA |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/04/world/expelled-doctors-accuse-ethiopia.html |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Ethiopia}}

| 1985 || Assistance || MSF adds food relief to its eight-year-long mission in {{w|Eritrea}}, which has previously focused on emergency medicine.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Davey |first1=Eleanor |title=7 - Controversy in a humanitarian age |doi=10.1017/CBO9781107706880.008 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/idealism-beyond-borders/controversy-in-a-humanitarian-age/9B895A59A7E3546FB1C5EDC3F1398824}}</ref> || {{w|Eritrea}}

| 1985 || Assistance || MSF assists with medical care in {{w|Honduras}} to refugees from {{w|El Salvador}} and {{w|Nicaragua}}.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Honduras}}

| 1986 || Assistance || MSF organizes mobile clinics and starts assisting injured and traumatized people affected by the {{w|Sri Lankan Civil War}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Civil War in Sri Lanka |url=https://doctorswithoutborders.tumblr.com/post/3484745489/1986-civil-war-in-sri-lanka-msf-organizes-mobile |website=doctorswithoutborders.tumblr.com |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Sri Lanka}}

| 1986 || Branch || MSF-Spain is established. || {{w|Spain}}

| 1986 || || MSF France creates MSF Logistique to manage the stocks of equipment and medicines to be sent to missions.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|France}}

| 1986 || Branch || Three doctors create MSF Luxembourg. The first actions by this association are done jointly with MSF Belgium in Ethiopia, Lebanon, Nicaragua, and then with MSF Spain in Bolivia. Refusing to recognize MSF Luxembourg as operational and independent, because of concerns over its small size and about its close ties to MSF Belgium, MSF France threatens to prosecute MSF Luxembourg to prevent the use of the MSF trademark.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Luxemburg}}, {{w|France}}

| 1986 || || MSF France registers as an overseas organization in the {{w|United Kingdom}}.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|United Kingdom}}

| 1986 || || MSF Belgium creates its own green logo.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Belgium}}

| 1986 || || MSF France’s General Assembly votes to create a structure in charge of training MSF volunteers. This association, called CIREM (Centre d’Intervention pour la Recherche et l’Epidémiologie Médicale/Intervention Centre for Research and Medical Epidemiology), has three objectives: public health training, provision of scientific support to MSF missions, and scientific networking.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|France}}

| 1987 || || MSF vaccinates 2,5 million Nigerians in the region around {{w|Ibadan}} and in {{w|Anambra State}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF starts malaria programme in the Niger Delta |url=https://www.msf.org/msf-starts-malaria-programme-niger-delta |website=msf.org |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Nigeria}}

| 1987 || Assistance || MSF doctors start working in the {{w|Philippines}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Philippines: Floodwaters recede but medical needs remain |url=https://msf-seasia.org/news/12974 |website=msf-seasia.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Philippines}}

| 1987 || || MSF France launches a satellite organization called "Epicentre" to conduct epidemiological studies and assessments in field settings.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Redfield |first1=Peter |title=Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=f77CrYZvwP8C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=In+1987,+MSF-France+launched+a+%22satellite%22+organization+called+%22Epicentre%22+to+conduct+epidemiological+studies+and+assessments&source=bl&ots=miJXw46KYN&sig=ACfU3U0-GizqyyZ_BU7kS5Fr3d4RhEVaJQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpi73vyMHjAhXPGLkGHbQQDpMQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=In%201987%2C%20MSF-France%20launched%20a%20%22satellite%22%20organization%20called%20%22Epicentre%22%20to%20conduct%20epidemiological%20studies%20and%20assessments&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|France}}

| 1988 || || MSF is requested to start an intervention to address urgent health needs in the area of the Western Upper Nile.<ref>{{cite web |title=Leishmaniasis Sudan |url=https://watermark.silverchair.com/14-1-70.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAkEwggI9BgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggIuMIICKgIBADCCAiMGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM139m5aZH7nPoHM7pAgEQgIIB9NOuDUuXTwQCHZYcNZpkO9bRd3xKYClSCdooJ5-BY63TWHSBvcQYBJXU0kKrOl7LyHpzOyVyjZkEfTXec88O3-F_Xjt9J_AY7dLQepjsmO2b7thuoQFOOP5-dQd3U0AAyGJrHIkaDBdbBJw4BUi9X3Eov3L41NHqUcUqA3eTRE5C3TXDYQcYjl03D86pfoUKezdFYOjmAu7e5gEXB2YNwtcD-9j-TNKIovPCI2Nw1oqoAZxOlyoxzEX_gX0pKEP-HROvRSluPjAqHv5hLlZffQTFsT-yrbV7o49KiwhOpRF81QNd4QUo8bSBSVDfpZb5fYzOOveYeNjw5WSqq82J0I2jYAoLnKp658uaJrnsuGr4aVY3nf4UuMrK6fc9jaPAJ_NjW700rSwA9D_0GoO-CZsXfpAY7OscyUlYz9PrHOXmCe4_VH4M1bs36YU-KCDwYXfxBmVITyZZPnTlk1ZG3NaAWep5b1JR1yS9ADmRH8C5R_RJ8XxEQmVJtuW8swK9BNWolfp7mW9R6jRZpzWdg3p0rbTL-miDQ0WSc5yvZXjVY_hzD517Qn_c6LpPg8z-uly8S3xa7VV3BpaoUCXC4HrGNeCvf69XlWeVAW3U9c-NDHZ9erggtBXPZ7Enk8suRnwqlPZ34X7ZdfuAuF6JR0jKQ62E |website=watermark.silverchair.com |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Sudan}}

| 1988 || || MSF Belgium and MSF Holland strive to develop a concrete operational collaboration, and create a common Rapid Response Unit [Unité d’Intervention Rapide/UIR] which is to be coordinated alternately by each section.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Belgium}}, {{w|Netherlands}}

| 1988 || || MSF assists victims of the [[w:1988 Armenian earthquake|earthquake of Armenia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Heroes without borders |url=http://ccbeuproject2015j.blogspot.com/2015/11/in-1971-is-founded-by-doctors-and.html |website=ccbeuproject2015j.blogspot.com |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Armenia}}

| 1988 || || MSF employs cholera treatment centers (CTCs) in {{w|Malawi}} to address an epidemic among refugees escaping from the {{w|Mozambican Civil War}}.<ref name="Timeline: Innovation in action"/> || {{w|Malawi}}

| 1989 || || MSF withdraws from Sudan after an MSF plane is shot down by a missile, killing 4 people, two of them MSF volunteers.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Sudan}}

| 1989 || || MSF Belgium creates Transfer, a logistics center cooperative association, which remains under MSF control via the members of the General Assembly and board, who are all MSF Belgium members.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Belgium}}

| 1990 || || "An MSF logistician is murdered in Afghanistan. Activities suspended."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||

| 1990 || || MSF begins working in {{w|Liberia}} in response to the [[w:First Liberian Civil WarFirst Liberian Civil War|civil war]].<ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Liberia |url=https://www.msf-me.org/country/liberia |website=msf-me.org |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Liberia}}

| 1990 || Branch || MSF-Greece is established.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Renée C. |title=Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=0C4_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=1990+Branch+MSF-Greece+is+established.&source=bl&ots=lUxy37lT17&sig=ACfU3U11tgnQ-n4NUjgEBgJI9_T6k26J8Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQwo2WvbrjAhU8IbkGHWLkDR0Q6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=1990%20Branch%20MSF-Greece%20is%20established.&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|Greece}}

| 1990 || Branch || MSF establish office in the {{w|United States}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Doctors Without Borders |url=https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/story/new-executive-director-doctors-without-borders-usa |website=doctorswithoutborders.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}

| 1990 || Assistance || MSF begins its first psychosocial program in {{w|Gaza}}, which focuses on developing people’s self-help skills and on addressing both the social and psychological effects of violence.<ref>{{cite web |title=Psychosocial support within a global movement |url=https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-23/edition-4/psychosocial-support-within-global-movement |website=thepsychologist.bps.org.uk |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Palestine}}

| 1991 || || "The MSF relief convoy evacuating the wounded from Vukovar hospital comes under attack. Three of our workers are wounded."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||  

| 1991 || Assistance || MSF initiates an {{w|HIV/AIDS}} prevention program in {{w|Uganda}}.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schopper |first1=D |last2=Doussantousse |first2=S |last3=Idro |first3=WJ |last4=Homsy |first4=J. |title=Country watch. Uganda. |pmid=12318838 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12318838 |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Uganda}}

| 1991 || Branch || MSF establish office in {{w|Canada}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS |url=https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/81-doctors-without-borders |website=charityintelligence.ca |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Canada}}

| 1991 || Assistance || MSF starts operations in Brazil. All projects would be closed in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brazil |url=https://www.msf.org/brazil |website=msf.org |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Brazil}}

| 1992 || Branch || MSF establish office in {{w|Japan}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Japon founded |url=https://www.msf.or.jp/25th/en/ |website=msf.or.jp |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Japan}}

| 1992 || Branch || MSF Sweden is established.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Sweden}}

| 1992 || || MSF states that, “the main problem today is that of access to victims; the authorities or factions oppose humanitarian action, an inconvenient witness to their atrocities, and insecurity makes intervention increasingly dangerous”.<ref name="II. History"/> ||

| 1992 || || The MSF International Office organizes the ‘Populations in Danger’ Days and the production of the ‘MSF Report on the Populations in Danger.’<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> ||

| 1992 || || "In 1992, the lawyer Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier was tasked by the International Office to address the trademark issue, starting with a review of all the registered MSF trademarks. Eventually, the six first sections (MSF France, MSF Belgium, MSF Switzerland, MSF Holland, MSF Luxembourg, MSF Spain) were allowed to keep their trademark in their home countries, providing they would release their trademarks in other countries to the international office."<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> ||

| 1993 || Assistance || MSF starts operations in {{w|Burundi}} during the [[w:Burundian Civil War|civil war]] in the country.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF treats 60 people wounded in grenade explosions |url=https://www.msf.org/burundi-msf-treats-60-people-wounded-grenade-explosions |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Burundi}}

| 1993 || Branch || MSF establishes office in the {{w|United Kingdom}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières |url=https://www.msf.org.uk/contact-us |website=msf.org.uk |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}

| 1993 || Branch || MSF-Italy is established.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Italy}}

| 1993 || || MSF Denmark is established.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Denmark}}

| 1994 || || MSF issues a new {{w|tuberculosis}} guideline that refers explicitly to {{w|WHO}}'s declaration on the eradication of TB as a public health priority.<ref>{{cite web |title=Questioning health and human rights |url=https://www.msf.org/questioning-health-and-human-rights |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 1994 || Branch || MSF-Australia is established.<ref>{{cite web |title=MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES AUSTRALIA |url=https://www.msf.org.au/m%C3%A9decins-sans-fronti%C3%A8res-australia |website=msf.org.au |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Australia}}

| 1994 || Branch || MSF Germany, MSF Hong Kong, MSF Australia, and MSF Austria are established.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF-Hong Kong |url=https://msf-seasia.org/5424 |website=msf-seasia.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref><ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Germany}}, {{w|Hong Kong}}, {{w|Australia}}, {{w|Austria}}

| 1995 || || MSF doctors assist civilians during the {{w|First Chechen War}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=War crimes and politics of terror in Chechnya (1994-2004) |url=https://www.msf-crash.org/index.php/en/publications/war-and-humanitarianism/war-crimes-and-politics-terror-chechnya-1994-2004 |website=msf-crash.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref>|| {{w|Russia}}

| 1995 || Branch || MSF France’s Antenna is set up in the {{w|United Arab Emirates}}.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|United Arab Emirates}}

| 1995 || || MSF becomes the first European {{w|NGO}} to begin working in North Korea.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Flake |first1=L. Gordon |last2=Snyder |first2=Scott |title=Paved with Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=K0dfIxTr5MUC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=%22in+1995+medecins+sans+frontieres%22&source=bl&ots=2iH3CJQ0nL&sig=ACfU3U2ZO6doGEkf0aBZ22WwhFJzy0-KYg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4g-Ot_7fjAhVXH7kGHQrgDVEQ6AEwBHoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201995%20medecins%20sans%20frontieres%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|North Korea}}

| 1996 || Recognition || MSF receive the {{w|Seoul Peace Prize}}.<ref name="bionity"/> || {{w|South Korea}}

| 1996 || Branch || MSF Norway is established.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Norway}}

| 1996 || Assistance || MSF launches a massive vaccination and treatment program during a severe epidemic of {{w|meningococcal meningitis}} in {{w|Nigeria}}. About 4.5 million people are assisted.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mohammed |first1=I |last2=Nasidi |first2=A |last3=Alkali |first3=AS |last4=Garbati |first4=MA |last5=Ajayi-Obe |first5=EK |last6=Audu |first6=KA |last7=Usman |first7=A |last8=Abdullahi |first8=S. |title=A severe epidemic of meningococcal meningitis in Nigeria, 1996. |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10974995 |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Nigeria}}

| 1996 (November) || || MSF calls for armed international intervention in {{w|Rwanda}}, “to protect the refugees and guarantee access to aid”.<ref name="II. History"/> || {{w|Rwanda}}

| 1997 || Assistance || MSF assists Rwandan refugees forced out of camps in {{w|Zaire}} as they return home, but are blocked from assisting those fleeing further into Zaire, who fall victim to widespread massacres.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Rwanda}}

| 1997 || Literature || MSF publishes the book ''Refugee Health'', which establishes ten top priorities for managing refugee emergencies.<ref>{{cite book |title=Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine |edition=Amy Kravitz |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=ShGIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=%22in+1997+medecins+sans+frontieres%22&source=bl&ots=LjSFZQzOhQ&sig=ACfU3U3Heay1xdKhWpkMe58_XE4rIQz5pw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaw_Tw_7fjAhVFH7kGHQOzDY4Q6AEwBHoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201997%20medecins%20sans%20frontieres%22&f=false}}</ref> ||

| 1998 || Policy || MSF formally recognizes the importance of providing mental healthcare and psychosocial care as part of its emergency work.<ref>{{cite web |title=Beyond a healthy body: MSF's mental health support |url=https://www.msf-me.org/article/beyond-healthy-body-msfs-mental-health-support |website=msf-me.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The psychological impact of a humanitarian emergency can be severe. |url=https://www.msf.org.uk/issues/mental-health |website=msf.org.uk |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 1998 || Endorsement || MSF decides to support the creation of the {{w|International Criminal Court}}. However, 10 years later it would state that it ‘would not cooperate and would not transmit any information to the ICC', as the organization needs to keep its distance from the ICC, as from any other political body.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grounds for divorce ? MSF and the international criminal court |url=https://www.msf-crash.org/en/conferences-debates/grounds-divorce-msf-and-international-criminal-court |website=msf-crash.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 1998 (October–November) || Assistance || MSF assists victims of {{w|Hurricane Mitch}} in {{w|Central America}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hurricane Mitch: Two years after MSF post Mitch intervention |url=https://www.msf.org/hurricane-mitch-two-years-after-msf-post-mitch-intervention |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Honduras}}, {{w|Nicaragua}}, {{w|Guatemala}}, {{w|El Salvador}}

| 1999 || Recognition || MSF is awarded the {{w|Nobel Peace Prize}} "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents".<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize speech |url=https://www.msf.org/nobel-peace-prize-speech |website=msf.org |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Sweden}}

| 1999 || Assistance || MSF India doctors assist victims of the [[w:1999 Odisha cyclone|cyclone in Odisha]].<ref name="Emergency response"/> || {{w|India}}

| 1999 || Assistance || MSF doctors provide humanitarian assistance to refugees in {{w|Macedonia}}, {{w|Albania}} and {{w|Montenegro}} during the {{w|Kosovo War}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF in Albania and Macedonia |url=https://www.msf.org/msf-albaniamacedonia |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Kosovo}}

| 2000 || Assistance || MSF doctors assist victims during the {{w|Sierra Leone Civil War}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Assessing Trauma in Sierra Leone |url=https://www.msf.org/assessing-trauma-sierra-leone |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Sierra Leone}}

| 2000 || Assistance || MSF teams in Thailand break rules to import affordable HIV medicines to treat patients from HIV/AIDS.<ref>{{cite web |title=1999-2019: 20 Years of Advocacy in Action |url=https://20years.msfaccess.org/?fbclid=IwAR31NUF5nkV_vzUOYv5JMiUvspSLYeUEaLwqq4fdUJ0MSCbJAUL7bK7kX0g |website=20years.msfaccess.org |accessdate=17 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Thailand}}

| 2001 || Assistance || MSF start providing antiretroviral therapy to people living with AIDS in several countries.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Thailand}}, {{w|Cambodia}}, {{w|Cameroon}}, {{w|Guatemala}}, {{w|Kenya}}, {{w|Malawi}}, {{w|South Africa}}

| 2001 || Assistance || MSF assists victims of the [[w:2001 Gujarat earthquake|earthquake in Gujarat]].<ref name="Emergency response">{{cite web |title=Emergency response |url=https://www.msfindia.in/emergency-response-0/ |website=msfindia.in |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|India}}

| 2002 || Assistance || MSF France extends its program to assist {{w|North Korean}} refugees who fly from China to other Asian countries in their attempt to reach {{w|South Korea}}, where an office is established in {{w|Seoul}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Binet |first1=Laurence |title=MSF and North Korea 1995-1998 |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=lE8uDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=%22in+2002+msf%22&source=bl&ots=NpR0KXVP-l&sig=ACfU3U2qD9I8ers7tSfCkLxdWWT28P3n6g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWh_qN1rrjAhW8K7kGHcvmBUMQ6AEwEnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%202002%20msf%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|North Korea}}, {{w|China}}, {{w|South Korea}}

| 2003 || || MSF joins several research institutes, including the {{w|Institut Pasteur}}, to create the {{w|Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative}}, a non-profit organization engaged in research and development of new treatments for neglected diseases.<ref>{{cite web |title=Access to medicines |url=https://www.msf.org/access-medicines |website=msf.org |accessdate=17 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 2003 || Program || The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative is founded by MSF and the {{w|Pasteur Institute}}, along with four other public research institutions. DNDi focuses on research and development of new and more efficient treatments for neglected diseases such as {{w|malaria}}, {{w|Chagas}}, {{w|kala azar}} and {{w|sleeping sickness}}.<ref name="MSF welcomes new fixed-dose combination against malaria">{{cite web |title=MSF welcomes new fixed-dose combination against malaria |url=https://www.msf.org/msf-welcomes-new-fixed-dose-combination-against-malaria |website=msf.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 2004 || Assistance || MSF treats patients for {{w|tuberculosis}} in nearly 50 projects in 24 countries.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF and Tuberculosis Care in 2004 |url=https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/msf-and-tuberculosis-care-2004 |website=doctorswithoutborders.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Angola}}, {{w|Afghanistan}}, {{w|Abkhazia/Georgia}}, {{w|Burma}}, {{w|Burundi}}, {{w|Cambodia}}, {{w|Caucasus/Chechnya}}, {{w|Chad}}, {{w|China}}, {{w|Congo}}, {{w|Congo DR}}, {{w|Ethiopia}}, {{w|Guinea}}, {{w|Ivory Coast}}, {{w|Kenya}}, {{w|Liberia}}, {{w|Malawi}}, {{w|Nepal}}, {{w|Nigeria}}, {{w|Sudan}}, {{w|Somalia}}, {{w|Thailand}}, {{w|Uganda}}, {{w|Uzbekistan}}  

| 2004 || Assistance || MSF treats 30,000 malnourished children worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nutritional emergency in Niger |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/niger/nutritional-emergency-niger |website=reliefweb.int |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> ||  

| 2004 || Withdrawal || MSF leaves {{w|Afghanistan}} after five of its aid workers are murdered, ostensibly by the {{w|Taliban}}. By 2009, the organization would return to the country.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Big Dilemma Facing Doctors Without Borders |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-big-dilemma-facing-doctors-without-borders-4946758/ |website=smithsonianmag.com |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Afghanistan}}

| 2005 || || MSF establishes an independent and specialized Evaluation Unit in {{w|Vienna}}. Since then, similar units would be set up in {{w|Stockholm}} and {{w|Paris}}.<ref name="">{{cite web |title=What is evaluation? |url=https://evaluation.msf.org/our-work/what-evaluation |website=evaluation.msf.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Austria}}

| 2005 || || MSF treats 60,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in {{w|Niger}} by providing ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a fortified milk paste rich in vitamins and minerals.<ref name="Timeline: Innovation in action">{{cite web |title=Timeline: Innovation in action |url=https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/story/timeline-innovation-action |website=doctorswithoutborders.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Niger}}

| 2005 || Infrastructure || During the {{w|2005 Kashmir earthquake}}, MSF uses an inflatable hospital for the first time, comprising nine tents, four operating theaters, an emergency room, an intensive care unit, and 120 beds. Since then such hospitals would become a staple in MSF’s projects, especially in places where medical infrastructure were damaged by conflict or natural disasters.<ref name="Timeline: Innovation in action"/> || {{w|Pakistan}}

| 2006 || Branch || The MSF-Czech Republic office is established in {{w|Prague}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=(MSF) Czech Republic |url=https://www.lekari-bez-hranic.cz/en/msf-czech-republic |website=lekari-bez-hranic.cz |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Czechia}}

| 2006 || Assistance || MSF treats 1.8 million people for {{w|malaria}} in its projects in {{w|Africa}}, {{w|Asia}} and {{w|Latin America}}.<ref name="MSF welcomes new fixed-dose combination against malaria"/> || {{w|Africa}}, {{w|Asia}}, {{w|Latin America}}

| 2007 || Assistance || MSF teams assist patients during an {{w|Ebola}} outbreak in {{w|Uganda}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ebola healthcare workers: a hazardous and isolating job |url=https://www.msf.org/ebola-healthcare-workers-hazardous-and-isolating-job |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Outbreak of Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever in Uganda |url=https://www.hpsc.ie/news/newsarchive/2007newsarchive/title-2626-en.html |website=hpsc.ie |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Uganda}}

| 2007 || || MSF assists civilians affected by the {{w|Somali Civil War}}. War surgery programs start in several locations.<ref name="A timeline of MSF in Somalia"/> || {{w|Somalia}}

| 2008 || || "MSF staff already working in the country provide assistance to thousands of people displaced by the cyclone while the government stalls on allowing additional staff to enter the country."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||

| 2008 || || MSF doctors assist patients during an [[w:2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak|outbreak of cholera]] in {{w|Zimbabwe}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=A collective response to cholera in Harare |url=https://www.msf.org/zimbabwe-collective-response-cholera-harare |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Zimbabwe}}

| 2009 || Withdrawal || MSF is expelled from {{w|Darfur}}, and its activities in {{w|Niger}} are suspended by the government.<ref name="Sri Lanka. Amid All-out War"/> || {{w|Sudan}}  

| 2009 || Assistance || MSF opens a surgical hospitals in Gaza and starts offering post-operative and psychological care. The two hospital tents include operating theaters and a 12-bed post-surgery recovery and post-operative care unit.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF expands surgical activity in Gaza City |url=https://www.msf.org/msf-expands-surgical-activity-gaza-city |website=msf.org |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Palestine}}

| 2009 || Assistance || MSF organizes large-scale immunization campaigns, particularly against meningitis in western Africa, where MSF workers vaccinate almost eight million people in {{w|Nigeria}} and {{w|Niger}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF India |url=https://www.msfindia.in/sites/default/files/2018-05/Financial%20Report%202009_0.pdf |website=msfindia.in |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 2009 || Withdrawal || MSF withdraws from {{w|Sri Lanka}}, after working for seventeen years against a background of civil war between the government and the {{w|Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam}}.<ref name="Sri Lanka. Amid All-out War">{{cite web |title=Sri Lanka. Amid All-out War |url=https://www.msf-crash.org/en/publications/agir-tout-prix-negociations-humanitaires-lexperience-de-msf/i-stories |website=msf-crash.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Sri Lanka}}

| 2009 || Assistance || MSF workers treat 250,000 malnourished children in 34 countries in the year.<ref>{{cite web |title=“Starved for Attention”: MSF Launches Global Campaign on Childhood Malnutrition |url=https://msfaccess.org/starved-attention-msf-launches-global-campaign-childhood-malnutrition |website=msfaccess.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> ||

| 2009–2013 || Infrastructure || MSF first pilots the use of {{w|telemedicine}} and consolidates multiple platforms in different languages in 2013 to create a more secure and accessible system. The platforms allow doctors and nurses in the field to easily consult with both MSF and non-MSF experts and specialists anywhere in the world by posting text and images, including {{w|X-ray}}s.<ref name="Timeline: Innovation in action"/> ||

| 2010 || Assistance || MSF responds to massive floods in {{w|Pakistan}}, assisting more than 80,000 patients and distributing nearly 2 million liters of clean water, along with almost 65,000 relief kits.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pakistan: Six months after the floods |url=https://www.msf.org/pakistan-six-months-after-floods |website=msf.org |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Pakistan}}

| 2010 || || "MSF and the VII photo agency launch the "Starved For Attention" multimedia campaign on global malnutrition. The ongoing exhibition, which has already been staged in the US, Europe, and Africa, highlights the often overlooked global scourge of malnutrition, its lethal impact on children in particular, and some innovative practices employed by MSF and others to combat it."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||

| 2010 (January) || Assistance || MSF doctors assist victims of the [[w:2010 Haiti earthquake|Haitian earthquake]].<ref name="MSF Activity Report 2010">{{cite web |title=MSF Activity Report 2010 |url=https://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/msf-activity-report-2010.pdf |website=msf.org |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Haiti}}

| 2010 || Assistance || MSF doctors carry out more than 80,000 medical consultations, treat more than 4,500 children for malnutrition and distribute 1.8 million litres of clean water every day to people affected by flooding during the {{w|2010 Pakistan floods}}.<ref name="MSF Activity Report 2010"/> || {{w|Pakistan}}

| 2010 || Infrastructure || MSF develops a multilingual telemedicine network to assist its field medical staff by providing direct access to specialist advice.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Delaigue |first1=Sophie |last2=Bonnardot |first2=Laurent |last3=Steichen |first3=Olivier |last4=Martinez Garcia |first4=Daniel |last5=Venugopal |first5=Raghu |last6=Saint-Sauveur |first6=Jean-François |last7=Wootton |first7=Richard |title=Seven years of telemedicine in Médecins Sans Frontières demonstrate that offering direct specialist expertise in the frontline brings clinical and educational value |doi=10.7189/jogh.08.020414 |pmid=30574293 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6292825/}}</ref> ||  

| 2010 || Withdrawal || MSF suspends activities in {{w|Turkmenistan}} stating they can no longer provide effective assistance in a country where national health authorities hide the true state of public health and disseminate misinformation.<ref name="MSF Activity Report 2010"/> || {{w|Turkmenistan}}

| 2011 || Assistance || MSF workers provide medical care to more than 20,088 patients in the emergency room and conduct 955 emergency surgeries in the hospital’s operating theater in {{w|Hangu, Pakistan}}, where risk of armed conflict remains high.<ref>{{cite web |title=In 2011, MSF provided medical care to 20,440 patients in Hangu |url=https://www.msf.org/pakistan-2011-msf-provided-medical-care-20440-patients-hangu |website=msf.org |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref>  || {{w|Pakistan}}  

| 2013 || Withdrawal || MSF closes all its programs in Somalia after 22 years working in the country. The decision comes after a long series of threats, kidnappings, extremely violent attacks, and murders, with 16 members of MSF staff having been killed since 1991.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF closes operations in Somalia over 'extreme attacks' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23697275 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Somalia}}

| 2013 || || MSF begins implementation of a shortened treatment course for drug-resistant tuberculosis in {{w|Uzbekistan}}.<ref name="Timeline: Innovation in action"/> || {{w|Uzbekistan}}

| 2014 (February) || Withdrawal || MSF is ordered by the {{w|Government of Myanmar}} to cease all activities in the country, where MSF doctors assist 30,000 HIV/AIDS patients and more than 3,000 TB patients.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF concerned about the fate of thousands of patients after being ordered to cease activities |url=https://www.msf.org/myanmar-msf-concerned-about-fate-thousands-patients-after-being-ordered-cease-activities |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> By December 2014 MSF would restart primary health clinics in the country.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF restarts basic medical activities in parts of Myanmar’s Rakhine State after nine-month absence |url=https://www.msf.org/myanmar-msf-restarts-basic-medical-activities-parts-myanmar%E2%80%99s-rakhine-state-after-nine-month |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Myanmar}}

| 2018 (January) || || MSF opens a paediatric surgical program at a hospitaol in {{w|Monrovia}}, {{w|Liberia}}, with the goal to make surgical care more available for children in the country.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF opens paediatric surgery programme |url=https://www.msf.org/liberia-msf-opens-paediatric-surgery-programme |website=msf.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Liberia}}