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This is a timeline of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), a French-origin international humanitarian aid organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in nearly 70 countries.^[1]

Big picture

Time period	Development summary
1970s	Medecins Sans Frontieres is born early in the decade out of the exasperation of a group of French doctors who worked in desperate conditions in the Nigerian Civil War. Along the decade, its growth and increased professionalism would come as a response to decolonization and cold war conflicts in Africa and Asia, which at the time create massive refugee crises.^[2] However, MSF remains a small organization in the 1970s.^[3]
1980s	Early in the decade, MSF introduces logistics and medical departments, a salaried administrative system, and the organization of marketing and fundraising activities.^[3] MSF field missions increase.^[4] In the 1980s, wars and refugee camps are MSF’s main field of intervention.^[3] Several sections of MSF are created in European countries in the decade.^[4]
1990s	War related situations and refugees movements remain an important focus for MSF. However, the organization increasingly faces the challenges of new health care crises, with the reemergence of once controlled diseases, the emergence of new epidemics, the failing health system in the former Soviet Union, lack of access to heath care for excluded populations in Western countries, and so forth.^[3]
2010s	As of 2015, MSF is active in nineteen countries and is involved in assistance activities in over sixty nations. It is represented by the International Office in Geneva, and has operational centers in Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Geneva that coordinate interventions. MSF is independent from governments and political parties.^[5]

Full timeline

Year	Event type	Main affliction (when applicable)	Details	Country/location
1971 (December 22)	Creation		Médecins Sans Frontières is founded in Paris^[1] by a group of French doctors and journalists in the wake of Nigerian Civil War, and the floods in Bangladesh.^[6]	France
1972	Assistance	Earthquake	An earthquake in Nicaragua marks the first MSF mission in a natural disaster.^[6]	Nicaragua
1974	Assistance	Hurricane	MSF conducts a relief mission to assist people in Honduras after the devastating Hurricane Fifi–Orlene.^[6]	Honduras
1975	Assistance	Dictatorship/genocide	MSF establishes its first large-scale medical program during a refugee crisis in Cambodia, providing medical care for the waves of Cambodians seeking sanctuary from the Khmer Rouge regime.^[7]	Cambodia
1976	Assistance	War	MSF conducts its first wartime mission in Lebanon and becomes a professional medical emergency organization.^[8]	Lebanon
1977	Activism		MSF organizes its first major advertising campaign, featuring a picture of a child, looking into a camera from behind bars.^[9]
1977	Activism	Dictatorship/genocide	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 Khmer Rouge who, he says, are “exterminating entire segments of the population in the name of some revamped communist ideology”.^[10]	Cambodia
1978	Assistance	War	MSF launches various refugee programs in Thailand, in Djibouti during the Ogaden War and Eritrean refugees in Sudan.^[11]	Thailand, Djibouti, Sudan
1979	Staff		MSF Co-founder Dr Bernard Kouchner leaves to form a new group, Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World).^[11]
1979	Administration		MSF moves beyond its 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.^[11]
1979	Assistance	War	MSF starts working in Somalia, in times of the Somali Rebellion.^[12]	Somalia
1979	Assistance	War	MSF sets up missions to help civilians in South Sudan affected by starvation and the civil war.^[13]	Sudan
1980	Assistance	War	MSF launches its first nutritional program in the midst of drought and civil war in Karamoja, Uganda.^[11]	Uganda
1980	Assistance	War	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 Soviet–Afghan War.^[11]	Afghanistan
1980	Branch		MSF-Belgium is founded.^[14]	Belgium
1981		War	MSF hospitals in Afghanistan are bombarded.^[11]	Afghanistan
1981	Administration		MSF sets up its first logistics department to coordinate and channel emergency medical relief.^[2]
1981	Branch		MSF-Switzerland is established.^[15]	Switzerland
1982	Assistance	General	MSF begins working in Rwanda.^[16]	Rwanda
1983	Administration		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.^[17]	France
1984	Assistance	Malnutrition	MSF starts programs to treat malnutrition in Ethiopia.^[18]	Ethiopia
1984	Branch		MSF establishes office in the Netherlands.^[19]	Netherlands
1984	Suborganization		MSF creates the Liberté Sans Frontières (LSF) Foundation, a think-tank on development and human rights issues.^[10]
1984	Suborganization		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.^[20]	Belgium
1985	Administration		MSF Belgium opposes the creation by MSF France’s newly formed Liberté Sans Frontières, thus taking a first step towards independence from MSF France.^[17]	Belgium
1985	Withdrawal		The Government from Ethiopia expells MSF doctors on accusations for speaking out against Government policies.^[21]	Ethiopia
1985	Assistance	Starvation	MSF adds food relief to its eight-year-long mission in Eritrea, which has previously focused on emergency medicine.^[22]	Eritrea
1985	Assistance	War	MSF assists with medical care in Honduras to refugees from El Salvador and Nicaragua during armed conflict.^[11]	Honduras
1985	Branch		MSF-Spain is established.Cite error: Closing `</ref>` missing for `<ref>` tag	Sri Lanka
1986	Suborganization		MSF France creates MSF Logistique to manage the stocks of equipment and medicines to be sent to missions.^[17]	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.^[17]	Luxemburg, France
1986	Administration		MSF France registers as an overseas organization in the United Kingdom.^[17]	United Kingdom
1986	Administration		MSF Belgium creates its own green logo.^[17]	Belgium
1986	Administration		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.^[17]	France
1987	Assistance	Disease	MSF vaccinates 2,5 million Nigerians in the region around Ibadan and in Anambra State.^[23]	Nigeria
1987	Assistance	General	MSF doctors start working in the Philippines.^[24]	Philippines
1987	Suborganization		MSF France launches a satellite organization called "Epicentre" to conduct epidemiological studies and assessments in field settings.^[25]	France
1988	Assistance		MSF is requested to start an intervention to address urgent health needs in the area of the Western Upper Nile.^[26]	Sudan
1988	Suborganization		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.^[17]	Belgium, Netherlands
1988	Assistance	Earthquake	MSF assists victims of the earthquake of Armenia.^[27]	Armenia
1988	Assistance	Disease (cholera)	MSF employs cholera treatment centers (CTCs) in Malawi to address an epidemic among refugees escaping from the Mozambican Civil War.^[28]	Malawi
1989	Withdrawal	War	MSF withdraws from Sudan after an MSF plane is shot down by a missile, killing 4 people, two of them MSF volunteers.^[11]	Sudan
1989	Suborganization		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.^[17]	Belgium
1990	Withdrawal	Crime	MSF suspends activities in Afghanistan after a logistician from the organization is murdered.^[11]	Afghanistan
1990	Assistance	War	MSF begins working in Liberia in response to the civil war.^[29]	Liberia
1990	Branch		MSF-Greece is established.^[30]	Greece
1990	Branch		MSF establishes office in the United States.^[31]	United States
1990	Assistance	War	MSF begins its first psychosocial program in Gaza, which focuses on developing people’s self-help skills and on addressing both the social and psychological effects of violence.^[32]	Palestine
1991	Assistance	Disease (HIV/AIDS)	MSF initiates an HIV/AIDS prevention program in Uganda.^[33]	Uganda
1991	Branch		MSF establishes office in Canada.^[34]	Canada
1991	Assistance	General	MSF starts operations in Brazil. All projects would be closed in 2011.^[35]	Brazil
1992	Branch		MSF establishes office in Japan.^[36]	Japan
1992	Branch		MSF Sweden is established.^[17]	Sweden
1992		War/crime	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”.^[10]
1992	Activism		The MSF International Office organizes the ‘Populations in Danger’ Days and the production of the ‘MSF Report on the Populations in Danger.’^[17]
1992	Suborganization	War	Netherlands-based Healthnet International is established by MSF to bridge the gap between humanitarian relief and structural support for health services in war-affected countries.^[37]	Netherlands
1993	Assistance	War	MSF starts operations in Burundi during the civil war in the country.^[38]	Burundi
1993	Branch		MSF establishes office in the United Kingdom.^[39]	United Kingdom
1993	Branch		MSF-Italy is established.^[17]	Italy
1993	Branch		MSF Denmark is established.^[17]	Denmark
1994	Assistance	Disease (tuberculosis)	MSF issues a new tuberculosis guideline that refers explicitly to WHO's declaration on the eradication of TB as a public health priority.^[40]
1994	Branch		MSF-Australia is established.^[41]	Australia
1994	Branch		MSF Germany, MSF Hong Kong, MSF Australia, and MSF Austria are established.^[42]^[17]	Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, Austria
1995	Assistance	War	MSF doctors assist civilians during the First Chechen War.^[43]	Russia
1995	Branch		MSF France’s Antenna is set up in the United Arab Emirates.^[17]	United Arab Emirates
1995	Assistance		MSF becomes the first European NGO to begin working in North Korea.^[44]	North Korea
1996	Recognition		MSF receive the Seoul Peace Prize.^[13]	South Korea
1996	Branch		MSF Norway is established.^[17]	Norway
1996	Assistance	Disease (meningococcal meningitis)	MSF launches a massive vaccination and treatment program during a severe epidemic of meningococcal meningitis in Nigeria. About 4.5 million people are assisted.^[45]	Nigeria
1996 (November)	Activism	War	MSF calls for armed international intervention in Rwanda, “to protect the refugees and guarantee access to aid”.^[10]	Rwanda
1997	Assistance	War/Genocide	MSF assists Rwandan refugees forced out of camps in Zaire as they return home, but are blocked from assisting those fleeing further into Zaire, who fall victim to widespread massacres.^[11]	Rwanda
1997	Literature		MSF publishes the book Refugee Health, which establishes ten top priorities for managing refugee emergencies.^[46]
1998	Policy	Disease (mental disorder)	MSF formally recognizes the importance of providing mental healthcare and psychosocial care as part of its emergency work.^[47]^[48]
1998	Activism	Crime	MSF decides to support the creation of the 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.^[49]
1998 (October–November)	Assistance	Hurricane	MSF assists victims of Hurricane Mitch in Central America.^[50]	Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador
1999	Recognition		MSF is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents".^[51]	Sweden
1999	Assistance	Cyclone	MSF India doctors assist victims of the cyclone in Odisha.^[52]	India
1999	Assistance	War	MSF doctors provide humanitarian assistance to refugees in Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro during the Kosovo War.^[53]	Kosovo
2000	Assistance	War	MSF doctors assist victims during the Sierra Leone Civil War.^[54]	Sierra Leone
2000	Assistance	Disease (HIV/AIDS)	MSF teams in Thailand break rules to import affordable HIV medicines to treat patients from HIV/AIDS.^[55]	Thailand
2001	Assistance	Disease (HIV/AIDS)	MSF starts providing antiretroviral therapy to people living with AIDS in several countries.^[11]	Thailand, Cambodia, Cameroon, Guatemala, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa
2001	Assistance	Earthquake	MSF assists victims of the earthquake in Gujarat.^[52]	India
2002	Assistance	Dictatorship/repression	MSF France extends its program to assist North Korean refugees who fly from China to other Asian countries in their attempt to reach South Korea, where an office is established in Seoul.^[56]	North Korea, China, South Korea
2003	Assistance	Disease	MSF joins several research institutes, including the Institut Pasteur, to create the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, a non-profit organization engaged in research and development of new treatments for neglected diseases.^[57]
2003	Program	Disease	The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative is founded by MSF and the 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 malaria, Chagas, kala azar and sleeping sickness.^[58]
2004	Assistance	Disease (tuberculosis)	MSF treats patients for tuberculosis in nearly 50 projects in 24 countries.^[59]	Angola, Afghanistan, Abkhazia/Georgia, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Caucasus/Chechnya, Chad, China, Congo, Congo DR, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan
2004	Assistance	Malnutrition	MSF treats 30,000 malnourished children worldwide.^[60]
2004	Withdrawal	War	MSF leaves Afghanistan after five of its aid workers are murdered, ostensibly by the Taliban. By 2009, the organization would return to the country.^[61]	Afghanistan
2005	Administration		MSF establishes an independent and specialized Evaluation Unit in Vienna. Since then, similar units would be set up in Stockholm and Paris.^[62]	Austria
2005	Assistance	Malnutrition	MSF treats 60,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Niger by providing ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a fortified milk paste rich in vitamins and minerals.^[28]	Niger
2005	Infrastructure	Earthquake	During the 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.^[28]	Pakistan
2006	Branch		The MSF-Czech Republic office is established in Prague.^[63]	Czechia
2006	Assistance	Disease (malaria)	MSF treats 1.8 million people for malaria in its projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.^[58]	Africa, Asia, Latin America
2007	Assistance	Disease (ebola)	MSF teams assist patients during an Ebola outbreak in Uganda.^[64]^[65]	Uganda
2007	Assistance	Repression	MSF starts to provide medical assistance to Zimbabwean refugees in the border town of Musina, South Africa.^[66]	South Africa, Zimbabwe
2007	Assistance	War	MSF assists civilians affected by the Somali Civil War. War surgery programs start in several locations.^[12]	Somalia
2008	Assistance	Disease (cholera)	MSF doctors assist patients during an outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe.^[67]	Zimbabwe
2008	Assistance	General	MSF staff comprising over 26,000 doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, logistical experts, water and sanitation engineers and administrators provide medical aid in over 65 countries.^[66]
2009	Withdrawal		MSF is expelled from Darfur, and its activities in Niger are suspended by the government.^[68]	Sudan
2009	Assistance	War	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.^[69]	Palestine
2009	Assistance	Disease	MSF organizes large-scale immunization campaigns, particularly against meningitis in western Africa, where MSF workers vaccinate almost eight million people in Nigeria and Niger.^[70]
2009	Withdrawal	War	MSF withdraws from Sri Lanka, after working for seventeen years against a background of civil war between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.^[68]	Sri Lanka
2009	Assistance	Malnutrition	MSF workers treat 250,000 malnourished children in 34 countries in the year.^[71]
2009–2013	Infrastructure		MSF first pilots the use of 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 X-rays.^[28]
2010	Assistance	Flood	MSF responds to massive floods in Pakistan, assisting more than 80,000 patients and distributing nearly 2 million liters of clean water, along with almost 65,000 relief kits.^[72]	Pakistan
2010	Activism	Malnutrition	MSF and the VII Photo Agency launch the "Starved For Attention" multimedia campaign on global malnutrition.^[11]
2010 (January)	Assistance	Earthquake	MSF doctors assist victims of the Haitian earthquake.^[73]	Haiti
2010	Assistance	Flood	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 2010 Pakistan floods.^[73]	Pakistan
2010	Infrastructure		MSF develops a multilingual telemedicine network to assist its field medical staff by providing direct access to specialist advice.^[74]
2010	Withdrawal		MSF suspends activities in 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.^[73]	Turkmenistan
2011	Assistance	War/crime	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 Hangu, Pakistan, where risk of armed conflict remains high.^[75]	Pakistan
2013	Withdrawal	War/crime	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.^[76]	Somalia
2013	Assistance	Disease (tuberculosis)	MSF begins implementation of a shortened treatment course for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Uzbekistan.^[28]	Uzbekistan
2014 (February)	Withdrawal		MSF is ordered by the 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.^[77] By December 2014 MSF would restart primary health clinics in the country.^[78]	Myanmar
2014	Infrastructure		MSF experiments with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Papua New Guinea to transport sputum samples from patients with suspected tuberculosis from remote health centers to a hospital for testing.	Papua New Guinea
2018 (January)		Disease/injury	MSF opens a paediatric surgical program at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, with the goal to make surgical care more available for children in the country.^[79]	Liberia

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 | 1985 || Assistance || Starvation || 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}}
+| 1985 || Assistance || War || MSF assists with medical care in {{w|Honduras}} to refugees from {{w|El Salvador}} and {{w|Nicaragua}} during armed conflict.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Honduras}}
+|-
+| 1985 || Branch || || MSF-Spain is established.<ref name="The Challenges of Globalization of International Relief and Development"> || {{w|Spain}}
 |-
 | 1986 || Assistance || War || 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 || Suborganization || || 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}}
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 | 1988 || Assistance || Earthquake || 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 || Assistance || Cholera || 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}}
+| 1988 || Assistance || Disease (cholera) || 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}}
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 | 1989 || Withdrawal || War || 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}}
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 | 1990 || Assistance || War || 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}}
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-| 1991 || Assistance || HIV/AIDS || 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 || Assistance || Disease (HIV/AIDS) || 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}}
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 | 1991 || Branch || || MSF establishes 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}}
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 | 1993 || Branch || || MSF Denmark is established.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Denmark}}
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-| 1994 || Assistance || Tuberculosis || 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 || Assistance || Disease (tuberculosis) || 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}}
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 | 1996 || Branch || || MSF Norway is established.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Norway}}
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-| 1996 || Assistance || Meningococcal meningitis || 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 || Assistance || Disease (meningococcal meningitis) || 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}}
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 | 1996 (November) || Activism || War || MSF calls for armed international intervention in {{w|Rwanda}}, “to protect the refugees and guarantee access to aid”.<ref name="II. History"/> || {{w|Rwanda}}
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 | 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> ||
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-| 1998 || Policy || Mental disorder || 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 || Policy || Disease (mental disorder) || 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> ||
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 | 1998 || Activism || Crime || 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> ||
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 | 2000 || Assistance || War || 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 || HIV/AIDS || 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}}
+| 2000 || Assistance || Disease (HIV/AIDS) || 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}}
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-| 2001 || Assistance || HIV/AIDS || MSF starts 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 || Disease (HIV/AIDS) || MSF starts 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 || Earthquake || 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}}
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 | 2003 || Program || Disease || 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> ||
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-| 2004 || Assistance || Tuberculosis || 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 || Disease (tuberculosis) || 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}}
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 | 2004 || Assistance || Malnutrition || 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> ||
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 | 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}}
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-| 2006 || Assistance || Malaria || 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}}
+| 2006 || Assistance || Disease (malaria) || 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}}
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-| 2007 || Assistance || Ebola || 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 || Assistance || Disease (ebola) || 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}}
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 | 2007 || Assistance || Repression || MSF starts to provide medical assistance to Zimbabwean refugees in the border town of {{w|Musina}}, {{w|South Africa}}.<ref name="MSF Activity Report 2008"/> || {{w|South Africa}}, {{w|Zimbabwe}}
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 | 2007 || Assistance || War || 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}}
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-| 2008 || Assistance || Cholera || 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}}
+| 2008 || Assistance || Disease (cholera) || 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}}
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 | 2008 || Assistance || General || MSF staff comprising over 26,000 doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, logistical experts, water and sanitation engineers and administrators provide medical aid in over 65 countries.<ref name="MSF Activity Report 2008">{{cite web |title=MSF Activity Report 2008 |url=https://legerutengrenser.no/sites/default/files/files/msf-activity-report-2008.pdf |website=legerutengrenser.no |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> ||
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 | 2013 || Withdrawal || War/crime || 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}}
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-| 2013 || Assistance || Tuberculosis || MSF begins implementation of a shortened treatment course for drug-resistant tuberculosis in {{w|Uzbekistan}}.<ref name="Timeline: Innovation in action"/> || {{w|Uzbekistan}}
+| 2013 || Assistance || Disease (tuberculosis) || MSF begins implementation of a shortened treatment course for drug-resistant tuberculosis in {{w|Uzbekistan}}.<ref name="Timeline: Innovation in action"/> || {{w|Uzbekistan}}
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 | 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}}

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