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This is a '''timeline of {{w|Médecins Sans Frontières}}''', an international humanitarian aid organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in nearly 70 countries.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières History">{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières History |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1999/msf/history/ |website=nobelprize.org |accessdate=4 July 2019}}</ref>
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This is a '''timeline of {{w|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.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières History">{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières History |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1999/msf/history/ |website=nobelprize.org |accessdate=4 July 2019}}</ref>
  
 
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| 1970s || "Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was born in the early 1970s out of the exasperation of a group of French doctors who worked in desperate conditions in the Biafra War (1967-70)" "MSF's growth and increased professionalism in the 1970s came as a response to decolonisation and cold war conflicts in Africa and Asia, which created massive refugee crises."<ref name="About MSF"/>
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| 1970s || {{w|Médecins Sans Frontières}} is born early in the decade out of the exasperation of a group of French doctors who worked in desperate conditions in the {{w|Nigerian Civil War}}. Along the decade, its growth and increased professionalism would come as a response to {{w|decolonization}} and {{w|cold war}} conflicts in Africa and Asia, which at the time create massive refugee crises.<ref name="About MSF"/> However, MSF remains a small organization in the 1970s.<ref name="The Challenges of Globalization of International Relief and Development"/>
 
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| 2010s || As og 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 {{w|Brussels}}, {{w|Paris}}, {{w|Amsterdam}}, {{w|Barcelona}} and {{w|Geneva}} that coordinate interventions. MSF is independent from governments and political parties.<ref>{{cite web |title=Papernet supports Doctors without Borders (MSF) |url=https://www.papernet.com/mea/en/news/papernet-supports-doctors-without-borders-msf |website=papernet.com |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref>
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| 1980s || Early in the decade, MSF introduces logistics and medical departments, a salaried administrative system, and the organization of marketing and fundraising activities.<ref name="The Challenges of Globalization of International Relief and Development"/> MSF field missions increase.<ref name="Silence Heals…from the Cold War to the War on Terror, MSF Speaks Out: a Brief History"/> In the 1980s, wars and refugee camps are MSF’s main field of intervention.<ref name="The Challenges of Globalization of International Relief and Development">{{cite journal |last1=Biberson |first1=Philippe |last2=Jean |first2=François |title=The Challenges of Globalization of International Relief and Development |doi=10.1177/089976499773746456}}</ref> Several sections of MSF are created in European countries in the decade.<ref name="Silence Heals…from the Cold War to the War on Terror, MSF Speaks Out: a Brief 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=19 July 2019}}</ref> 
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| 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 {{w|Soviet Union}}, lack of access to heath care for excluded populations in Western countries, and so forth.<ref name="The Challenges of Globalization of International Relief and Development"/>
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| 2000s || Médecins Sans Frontières experiences steady growth.<ref>{{cite web |title=On Danger, Sacrifice and Professionalisation: MSF and the security debate |url=https://www.msf-crash.org/en/publications/secourir-sans-perir-la-securite-humanitaire-lere-de-la-gestion-des-risques/1-history |website=msf-crash.org |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> Among great activist challenges is the support to the battle to bring down the price of {{w|antiretroviral}} drugs for people living with HIV in developing countries.<ref>{{cite web |title=7 ways we increased access to lifesaving treatment |url=https://msfaccess.org/access-campaign-year-review-2017 |website=msfaccess.org |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> MSF's infrastructure like inflatable hospitals and telemedicine are developed in the decade.
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| 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 {{w|Brussels}}, {{w|Paris}}, {{w|Amsterdam}}, {{w|Barcelona}} and {{w|Geneva}} that coordinate interventions. MSF remains independent from governments and political parties.<ref>{{cite web |title=Papernet supports Doctors without Borders (MSF) |url=https://www.papernet.com/mea/en/news/papernet-supports-doctors-without-borders-msf |website=papernet.com |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 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}}
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| 1971 (December 22) || Creation || || {{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}}
 
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| 1972 || || 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}}
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| 1972 || Assistance || Earthquake || 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}}
 
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| 1974 || || MSF conducts a relief mission to assist people in {{w|Honduras}} after the devastating {{w|Hurricane Fifi–Orlene}}.<ref name="Founding"/> || {{w|Honduras}}
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| 1974 || Assistance || Hurricane || MSF conducts a relief mission to assist people in {{w|Honduras}} after the devastating {{w|Hurricane Fifi–Orlene}}.<ref name="Founding"/> || {{w|Honduras}}
 
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| 1975 || || 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}}
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| 1975 || Assistance || Dictatorship/genocide || 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}}
 
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| 1976 || || 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}}
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| 1976 || Assistance || War || 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}}
 
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| 1977 || || MSF organize their 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> ||
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| 1977 || Activism || || 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> ||
 
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| 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}}
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| 1977 || Activism || Dictatorship/genocide || In spite of having promoted a depoliticized image, MSF representative {{w|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}}
 
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| 1978 || || 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}}  
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| 1978 || Assistance || War || 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}}  
 
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| 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> ||
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| 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> ||
 
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| 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"/> ||
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| 1979 || Administration || || 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"/> ||
 
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| 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}}
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| 1979 || Assistance || War || 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}}
 
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| 1979 || || MSF set 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}}
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| 1979 || Assistance || War || 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}}
 
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| 1980 || || 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}}
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| 1980 || Assistance || War || 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}}
 
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| 1980 || || 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}}
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| 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 {{w|Soviet–Afghan War}}.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Afghanistan}}
 
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| 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}}
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| 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}}
 
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| 1981 || || MSF hospitals in Afghanistan are bombarded.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Afghanistan}}
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| 1981 || || War || MSF hospitals in Afghanistan are bombarded.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Afghanistan}}
 
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| 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> ||
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| 1981 || Administration || || 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> ||
 
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| 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}}
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| 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}}
 
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| 1982 || || 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}}
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| 1982 || Assistance || General || 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}}
 
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| 1984 || || 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}}
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| 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.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|France}}
 
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| 1984 || || MSF establish 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}}
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| 1984 || Assistance || Malnutrition || MSF starts programs to treat malnutrition in {{w|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}}
 
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| 1985 || || 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}}
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| 1984 || Branch || || 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}}
 
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| 1985 || || MSF assists with medical care in {{w|Honduras}} to refugees from {{w|El Salvador}} and {{w|Nicaragua}}.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Honduras}}
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| 1984 || Suborganization || || MSF creates the Liberté Sans Frontières (LSF) Foundation, a think-tank on development and human rights issues.<ref name="II. History"/> ||
 
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| 1986 || || 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}}
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| 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=AEDES |url=http://associativehistory.msf.org/sites/default/files/AEDES_En.pdf |website=associativehistory.msf.org |accessdate=18 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Belgium}}
 
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| 1986 || Branch || MSF-Spain is established. || {{w|Spain}}
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| 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.<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}}
 
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| 1986 || || Yemen intervention in Aden where fighting rages between rival factions of the ruling party."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Yemen}}
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| 1985 || Withdrawal || || The {{w|Government of 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}}
 
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| 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}}
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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}}
 
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| 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}}
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| 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}}
 
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| 1989 || || "MSF provide medical care in the Soviet Union."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1985 || Branch || || MSF-Spain is established.<ref name="The Challenges of Globalization of International Relief and Development"/> || {{w|Spain}}
 
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| 1990 || || "An MSF logistician is murdered in Afghanistan. Activities suspended."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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}}
 
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| 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}}
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| 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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| 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}}
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| 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}}
 
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| 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}}
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| 1986 || Administration || || 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}}
 
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| 1990 || || 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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| 1986 || Administration || || MSF Belgium creates its own green logo.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Belgium}}
 
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| 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"/> ||  
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| 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.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|France}}
 
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| 1991 || || 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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| 1987 || Assistance || Disease || 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}}
 
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| 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}}
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| 1987 || Assistance || General || 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}}
 
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| 1991 || || 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}}
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| 1987 || Suborganization || || 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}}
 
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| 1991 || || "EMERGENCY IN SOMALIA MSF represents the only foreign presence in war-stricken Mogadishu, and aids refugees in other countries."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Somalia}}
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| 1988 || Assistance || || 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}}
 
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| 1991 || || "EMERGENCY IN KURDISTAN Largest emergency relief operation to date. MSF provide care in Turkey, Iran and Jordan to Kurds displaced by the Gulf War"<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Kurdistan}}
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| 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.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Belgium}}, {{w|Netherlands}}
 
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| 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}}
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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}}
 
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| 1993 || Branch || MSF establish 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}}
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| 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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| 1993 || || 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}}
 
 
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| 1993 || Branch || MSF-Italy is established. || {{w|Italy}}
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| 1988 || Assistance || General || MSF starts operations in {{w|Algeria}}. The organization would close its projects in 2016 in the country.<ref>{{cite web |title=Algeria |url=https://www.msf.org/algeria |website=msf.org |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Algeria}}
 
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| 1993–1994 || || "WAR IN BOSNIA Medical programmes in the region extend to the UN's supposed "protection zones" of Gorazde and Srebrenica."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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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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| 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> ||
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| 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.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Belgium}}
 
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| 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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| 1990 || Withdrawal || Crime || MSF suspends activities in {{w|Afghanistan}} after a logistician from the organization is murdered.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Afghanistan}}
 
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| 1994 || Branch || MSF establish office in {{w|Hong Kong}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF-Hong Kong |url=https://msf-seasia.org/5424 |website=msf-seasia.org |accessdate=16 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Hong Kong}}
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| 1990 || Assistance || War || 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}}
 
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| 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}}
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| 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}}
 
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| 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}}
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| 1990 || Branch || || MSF establishes 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}}
 
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| 1996 || Recognition || MSF receive the {{w|Seoul Peace Prize}}.<ref name="bionity"/> || {{w|South Korea}}
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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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| 1996 || || MSF launch 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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| 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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| 1997 || || MSF assist 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}}
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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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| 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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| 1991 || Assistance || General || 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}}
 
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| 1998 || || "FAMINE IN NORTH KOREA Unable to ensure that medical aid was reaching the most vulnerable, we end our programmes after three years, but continue to assist refugees fleeing to China."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|North Korea}}
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| 1992 || Branch || || MSF establishes 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}}
 
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| 1998 (October–November) || || 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}}
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| 1992 || Branch || || MSF Sweden is established.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Sweden}}
 
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| 1998 || || "CIVIL WAR IN REPUBLIC OF CONGO MSF integrate treatment for survivors of rape and sexual assault into our emergency response."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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”.<ref name="II. History"/> ||
 
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| 1998 || || "FAMINE IN SOUTHERN SUDAN MSF respond to widespread famine caused by civil war and drought."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> || {{w|Southern Sudan}}
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| 1992 || Activism || || 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"/> ||
 
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| 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}}
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| 1992 || Suborganization || War || Netherlands-based {{w|Healthnet International}} is established by MSF to bridge the gap between humanitarian relief and structural support for health services in war-affected countries.<ref>{{cite book |title=Another Day in Paradise: Front Line Stories from International Aid Workers |edition=Carol Bergman |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=_zCS0MUHMg8C&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=Health+Net+MSF+%22in+1992%22&source=bl&ots=h6GgcsUWV4&sig=ACfU3U1X3H6pfkxtLCna2IAXTC_sdSRHlw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi83N7kmMLjAhXBGbkGHZ7TBrgQ6AEwAHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Health%20Net%20MSF%20%22in%201992%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|Netherlands}}
 
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| 1999 || || "SECOND WAR IN CHECHNYA MSF call for access to Grozny and denounce the massive use of violence by Russian forces against civilians."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1993 || Assistance || War || 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}}
 
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| 1999 || || 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}}
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| 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}}
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| 2000 || || "ASYLUM SEEKERS FLEE TO EUROPE MSF expand programmes assisting asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1993 || Branch || || MSF-Italy is established.<ref name="Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2014"/> || {{w|Italy}}
 
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| 2000 || || 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}}
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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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| 2000 || || 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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| 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> ||
 
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| 2001 || || 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}}
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| 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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| 2002 || || "AID WORKERS TARGETED MSF worker Arjan Erkel is abducted in the North Caucacus, a victim of increasing dangers faced by aid workers in conflict zones worldwide."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||  
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| 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}}
 
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| 2002 || || 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}}
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| 1995 || Assistance || War || 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}}
 
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| 2002 || || "MALARIA KILLING MILLIONS IN AFRICA Faced with skyrocketing resistance to common antimalarials like chloroquine MSF increase its use of artemisin-based combination therapy, and push for wider availability of this effective treatment."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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}}
 
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| 2002 || || "US-LED COALITION INVADE AFGHANISTAN With many International staff evacuated, our programmes continue to operate led by Afghan staff."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1995 || Assistance || || 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}}
 
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| 2003 || || "US INVADE IRAQ MSF teams remain in Baghdad and challenge the US government on its failure to provide adequate medical care to civilians."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1996 || Recognition || || MSF receive the {{w|Seoul Peace Prize}}.<ref name="bionity"/> || {{w|South Korea}}
 
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| 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> ||
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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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| 2003 || || "CIVILIANS SUFFER IN DRC MSF run dozens of medical programmes for people caught in the region’s chronic conflict."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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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| 2004 || || "MEETING THE EMERGENCY IN WESTERN DARFUR MSF open feeding centres, clinics and vaccination campaigns in western Sudan (Darfur) and Chad, where hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence face starvation."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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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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| 2004 || || "ASIAN TSUNAMI MSF reacts immediately to the Asian tsunami disaster. Within 48 hours teams were working on the ground and 32 tonnes of medical, water and sanitation supplies had been dispatched. Thanks to the huge international response to the tsunami, the worst of the emergency was over by May. MSF felt able to ask its donors, 99 percent of whom agree, to allow it to reallocate some of the funds received to other MSF emergency medical programmes around the world."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1997 || Assistance || War/Genocide || 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}}
 
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| 2005 || || "NUTRITIONAL CRISIS IN NIGER MSF begin an emergency operation to treat tens of thousands of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in various parts of Niger, opening seven in-patient centres and 27 ambulatory centres."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1997 || Literature || Forced displacement || 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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| 2006 || || "SURGICAL CARE FOR VICTIMS OF WAR IN IRAQ Unable to work safely in Iraq, MSF sets up a reconstructive surgical program in Amman, Jordan to treat severely war-wounded patients referred by medical colleagues in Iraq."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1997 || Assistance || Flood || MSF in {{w|North Korea}} distributes 2,200 tons of spring barley seeds to help the population cope with flood damage and increase agricultural production.<ref name="Health System in North Korea Has Collapsed">{{cite web |title=Health System in North Korea Has Collapsed |url=https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/health-system-north-korea-has-collapsed |website=doctorswithoutborders.org |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|North Korea}}
 
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| 2006 || || "SRI LANKA RETURNS TO WAR As tens of thousands of people flee renewed fighting in the north of the country, MSF reopens surgical programmes in north and central Sri Lanka after facing a series of setbacks from the authorities."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1998 || Policy || Mental health || 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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| 2006 || || "MASSIVE CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN ANGOLA MSF treats 26,000 people and sends more than 400 tonnes of supplies to respond to a cholera outbreak that spreads from the capital to more than half the country."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||  
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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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| 2006 || || "MEASLES VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN DRC MSF launch a massive measles vaccination campaign in DRC. In only a few weeks, MSF teams vaccinate 359,318 children under the age of five."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1998 (October–November) || Assistance || Hurricane || 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}}
 
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| 2006 || Branch || The MSF-Czech Republic office is established in 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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| 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}}
 
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| 2007 || || "CRISIS UNFOLDS IN CHAD More than 150,000 displaced people attempt to survive in makeshift camps in eastern Chad as fighting escalates between government and rebel groups. MSF scales up its medical programmes and calls for a massive international humanitarian response."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 1999 || Assistance || Cyclone || MSF India doctors assist victims of the [[w:1999 Odisha cyclone|cyclone in Odisha]].<ref name="Emergency response"/> || {{w|India}}
 
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| 2007 || || 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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| 1999 || Assistance || War || 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}}
 
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| 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}}
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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}}
 
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| 2007 || || "A NEW TREATMENT FOR MALARIA The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative and the pharmaceutical company sanofi-aventis launch ASAQ, an inexpensive and easy-to-use combination pill. ASAQ is not patented, allowing for others to produce it at lower cost."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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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| 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"/> ||
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| 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}}
 
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| 2008 || || "VIOLENCE ESCALATES AGAINST CIVILIANS IN DRC MSF runs mobile clinics, surgical programmes, nutritional programmes, and provides treatment and counselling for victims of sexual violence as thousands of Congolese in North Kivu flee increased and repeated attacks on their villages by armed groups."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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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| 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}}
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| 2002 || Assistance || Dictatorship/repression || 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}}
 
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| 2008 || || "NUTRITIONAL CRISIS IN ETHIOPIA MSF treats more than 72,000 malnourished children as a massive nutritional crisis sweeps the south of the country as a result of drought, poor harvests, and soaring food prices."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2002 || Assistance || Disease (chagas) || MSF starts its first {{w|Chagas}} project in Bolivia, the country with the highest Chagas prevalence in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=No excuses in Chagas diagnosis |url=https://msfaccess.org/no-excuses-chagas-diagnosis |website=msfaccess.org |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Bolivia}}
 
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| 2008 || || "POLITICAL UNREST IN KENYA DISPLACES THOUSANDS MSF treats wounded civilians in the shanty towns of the capital, Nairobi, and assists displaced Kenyans in makeshift camps who flee to the west of the country after disputed presidential elections lead to widespread violence."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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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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| 2009 || || "A DIFFICULT YEAR IN SUDAN MSF launches emergency interventions in the south in response to escalating violence and outbreaks. In Darfur, the government expels two sections and four staff members are kidnapped. Some projects are therefore closed, but MSF nonetheless provides nearly 129,000 consultations and support numerous local health centers."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||  
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| 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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| 2009 || || "MSF RE-OPENS PROGRAMMES IN AFGHANISTAN Following a five year absence (see 2004),MSF returns to the country and begins supporting hospitals in Kabul and in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand Province"<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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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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| 2009 || || 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}}
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| 2004 || Withdrawal || War || 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}}
 
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| 2010 || || 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}}
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| 2005 || Administration || || 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}}
 
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| 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"/> ||
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| 2005 || Assistance || Malnutrition || 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}}
 
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| 2010 (January) || || 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}}
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| 2005 || Infrastructure || Earthquake || 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}}
 
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| 2010 || || 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}}
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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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| 2010 || || 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> ||
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| 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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| 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}}
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| 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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| 2011 || || "PROVIDING URGENT MEDICAL CARE IN LIBYA MSF finally manages to deliver medicines and medical supplies to Sirte, Libya, at the heart of the fighting. For ten days,we attempt to deliver aid to Sirte where, according to doctors in the town, the healthcare situation had continued to deteriorate."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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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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| 2011 || || "MSF WORKS WITH PSYCHOLOGISTS IN AFTERMATH OF JAPANESE QUAKE MSF supports a team of six psychologists who treat survivors of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan on March 11th."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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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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| 2011 || || "WITHDRAWAL FROM THAILAND AFTER 35 YEARS After months of negotiations and discussions with Thai authorities, it proves impossible to get permission to provide healthcare to undocumented migrants and vulnerable populations in Thailand that MSF believes are most in need of medical assistance."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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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| 2011 || || "MSF CONDEMNS ATTACK ON AID WORKERS IN SOMALIA Two MSF colleagues, Phillipe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhuo, were killed by a gunman while implementing emergency assistance projects in Mogadishu."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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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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| 2012 || || "MSF VACCINATES 117,000 PEOPLE AGAINST CHOLERA IN GUINEA MSF vaccinates 117,000 people against cholera in the region of Boffa, 150km north of Conakry, the Guinean capital. This is the first time that people in Africa were protected during a cholera outbreak by a two-dose oral vaccine."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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}}, {{w|Niger}}
 
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| 2012 || || "REFUGEE INFLUX CAUSES CRISIS IN SOUTH SUDAN MSF warns of dire medical consequences as tens of thousands of new refugees cross from Sudan into South Sudan, finding refugee camps full and unable to provide the basic life-sustaining essentials. The situation in Upper Nile and Unity States rapidly develops into a full-blown crisis as water supplies begin to run out and relief is wholly insufficient."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2009 || Assistance || War || MSF opens a surgical hospital 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}}
 
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| 2012 || || "MSF RESPONDS TO SYRIAN CONFLICT In July, MSF begins to run medical programmes inside Syria, although without authorisation from the Syrian government. MSF initially sets up three field hospitals in the north of the country. One of the hospitals, located in a cave, would later be bombed after the MSF team leaves for more secure surroundings."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2009 || Assistance || Disease || 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> ||
 
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| 2013 || || "MSF HELPS PEOPLE FLEEING MALI With tensions simmering in Mali, the French military intervene to suppress an Islamist uprising in January. MSF continues its emergency medical work across Mali and assists people who have fled the conflict to neighbouring countries."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/>  ||
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| 2009 || Withdrawal || War || 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}}
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| 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}}
 
 
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| 2013 || || "LAUNCH OF THE TB MANIFESTO In March, people living with drug-resistant tuberculosis, with the help of MSF staff, call for new drugs to treat multidrug-resistant TB. They call for the drugs to make treatment much shorter, more effective and less toxic. More than 55,000 people sign the manifesto."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2009 || Assistance || Malnutrition || 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> ||
 
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| 2013 || || "REPORT OF TOXIC NERVE AGENTS IN SYRIA In August, MSF reports that more than 3,000 patients showing symptoms of exposure to toxic nerve agents are received at medical centres near the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack near Damascus."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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"/> ||
 
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| 2013 || || "CHAOS IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC In October, MSF remains one of the few international medical organisations in Central African Republic responding to the increasing violence which has plunged the country into chaos."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2010 || Assistance || Flood || 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}}
 
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| 2013 || || "TYPHOON HAIYAN DEVASTATES THE PHILIPPINES MSF begins responding to Typhoon Haiyan shortly after it makes landfall on 8 November. MSF provides care for emergency and everyday health problems in hospitals and mobile clinics, delivers clean water and helps to repair sewerage systems and health centres in some of the worst affected areas."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2010 || Activism || Malnutrition || MSF and the {{w|VII Photo Agency}} launch the "Starved For Attention" multimedia campaign on global malnutrition.<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
 
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| 2013 || || "CIVIL WAR IN SOUTH SUDAN MSF ramps up operations after wide-scale conflict engulfs South Sudan in December. In April 2014, MSF severely criticises United Nations peacekeeping operations over what it calls a ‘shameful indifference’ to the squalid living conditions of 21,000 displaced people in Juba."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2010 (January) || Assistance || Earthquake || 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}}
 
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| 2014 (February) || || 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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| 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 {{w|2010 Pakistan floods}}.<ref name="MSF Activity Report 2010"/> || {{w|Pakistan}}
 
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| 2014 || || "RESPONSE BEGINS TO UNPRECEDENTED EBOLA EPIDEMIC In March, MSF begins responding in Guinea to what it describes as ‘an unprecedented Ebola epidemic’ due to the geographical spread of the virus.The World Health Organisation states that MSF is exaggerating."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6292825/}}</ref> ||  
 
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| 2014 || || "EBOLA “OUT OF CONTROL” In June, MSF declares the second wave of the outbreak as "totally out of control" and calls for a massive influx of resources and reinforcements to be sent to West Africa. MSF goes on to open 15 Ebola management and transit centres, caring for more than 5,000 patients. Fourteen MSF staff and hundreds of other health workers lose their lives to Ebola."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 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}}
 
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| 2014 || || "CRISIS IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK Between July and August, MSF ramps up its work in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in response to Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip. On 21 July, MSF calls on Israel to stop the bombing due to the number of civilian casualties."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/>||
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| 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 {{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}}
 
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| 2014 || || "LAUNCH OF THE MISSING MAPS PROJECT November sees the launch of the Missing Maps project – a collaboration between MSF, the British and American Red Cross, and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team – which aims to map the most vulnerable places in the developing world so that individuals and organisations can use maps and data to better respond to crises."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2012 || Assistance || General || MSF in the {{w|Democratic Republic of Congo}} provides over 1.6 million outpatient consultations, treats 434,300 patients for {{w|malaria}}, admits over 90,000 patients to hospital and vaccinates 407,600 people against {{w|measles}} across the country.<ref name="Projects in Africa - MSF-HK Activity Report 2012">{{cite web |title=Projects in Africa - MSF-HK Activity Report 2012 |url=https://msf-seasia.org/14995 |website=msf-seasia.org |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Democratic Republic of Congo}}
 
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| 2014 || || "MSF RESTARTS WORK IN MYANMAR In December, MSF restarts basic medical activities in parts of Rakhine, Myanmar, after a nine month absence. In the first month after restarting, MSF carries out 3,480 outpatient consultations."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2012 || Assistance || General || MSF launches a large emergency program caused by massive influx of Sudanese refugees into {{w|South Sudan}}. The organization provides a total of 869,300 outpatient consultations, admits over 46,700 patients to hospital, treats 148,700 patients for {{w|malaria}} and vaccinates 204,800 people against {{w|measles}}. Teams also launch emergency response to the flooding in {{w|Yambio}} and the measles outbreak in {{w|Gogrial}}.<ref name="Projects in Africa - MSF-HK Activity Report 2012"/> || {{w|South Sudan}} 
 
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| 2014 || || "MSF ADDRESSES UN SECURITY COUNCIL In September, Jackson Naimah – an MSF physicians’ assistant from Liberia – gives an unprecedented speech to the UN Security Council saying that MSF has reached its limits and cannot continue to respond alone to the Ebola epidemic. He appeals for international help. Later that month, MSF announces it will host three treatment trials for the virus in its centres in West Africa."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2012 || Assistance || General || MSF in {{w|Somalia}} provides a total of 624,200 outpatient consultations, admits over 40,000 patients to hospital, treats over 30,000 severely malnourished patients, and conducts 2,750 surgical procedures in 13 areas of the country.<ref name="Projects in Africa - MSF-HK Activity Report 2012"/> || {{w|Somalia}}
 
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| 2015 || || "CONFLICT IN UKRAINE In mid-January, fighting in eastern Ukraine escalates to a level not seen since the peak of the conflict in the summer of 2014. MSF provides basic healthcare and medicines to people on both sides of the frontline, as well as psychological support."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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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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| 2015 || || MSF launches a search and rescue mission in the {{w|Mediterranean Sea}} to save migrants trying to reach Europe by boat.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF to launch Mediterranean migrant rescue boat |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32248784 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 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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| 2015 || || "KUNDUZ ATTACK In the small hours of Saturday, 3 October 2015, our emergency trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, is repeatedly bombed by Coalition forces. Forty-two people are killed: 24 patients and 14 MSF staff, along with four patient caretakers."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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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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| 2016 || || "BORNO CRISIS, NIGERIA Between April and July, thousands of children starve to death in Borno state, Nigeria, many beyond the reach of aid agencies. MSF speaks out about the situation and calls on the authorities and international community to urgently tackle the problem of widespread hunger, which is exacerbated by displacement and the fight against Boko Haram rebels in the region."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2014 || Infrastructure || Disease (tuberculosis) || MSF experiments with the use of {{w|unmanned aerial vehicle}}s (UAVs) in {{w|Papua New Guinea}} to transport sputum samples from patients with suspected {{w|tuberculosis}} from remote health centers to a hospital for testing. || {{w|Papua New Guinea}}
 
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| 2016 || || "CONFLICT IN SYRIA AND YEMEN The catastrophic conflicts in Syria and Yemen continue. Throughout 2016, attacks on civilans, hospitals, medical facilities and healthcare workers became sadly commonplace. In May, world leaders at the UN unanimously condemned these acts, but they continued unabated."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2015 || Assistance || General || MSF intervenes in 69 countries, where it develops 446 humanitarian projects. The organization realizes 8.6 million medical consultations and hospitalizes nearly 600 000 patients.<ref name="Report 2015">{{cite web |title=Report 2015 |url=https://msf.lu/en/news/press-releases/report-on-year-2015 |website=msf.lu |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> ||
 
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| 2016 || || "EU-TURKEY DEAL In a historic move in June, MSF refuses EU funding as protest against shambolic policy towards refugees and migrants."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2015 || Assistance || Disease (ebola) || MSF opens the Bardnesville Junction Hospital (BJH) in {{w|Monrovia}}, at the time the epicenter of the {{w|Western African Ebola virus epidemic}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=LIBERIA |url=https://www.msf.org.au/country-region/liberia |website=msf.org.au |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Liberia}}
 
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| 2017 || || "EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS AID BUSINESS OF SUFFERING MSF International President, Joanne Liu, sends an open letter to European government leaders regarding the detention of migrants and refugees in Libya: "It must be named for what it is: a thriving enterprise of kidnapping, torture and extortion. And European governments have chosen to contain people in this situation." "<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2016 || Assistance || General || MSF establishes a decentralized Middle East unit based in {{w|Amman}}, {{w|Jordan}} to support MSF operations in the {{w|Middle East}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=5 Q’s for Ghassan Aziz, Health Surveillance Program Manager at Médecins Sans Frontières |url=https://www.datainnovation.org/2018/02/5-qs-for-ghassan-aziz-health-surveillance-program-manager-at-medecins-sans-frontieres/ |website=datainnovation.org |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Jordan}}
 
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| 2017 || || "ROHINYGA REFUGEE CRISIS From 25 August, more than 655,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Bangladesh, following targeted violence against them in neighbouring Rakhine state, Myanmar. Most are living in dire conditions in the refugee camps. In response, MSF expands its operations in the area, covering water, sanitation and medical activities for refugees. In December, MSF surveys estimate at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed during a month of attacks in Myanmar."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2016 || Activism || || MSF delivers the names of more than 416,000 people from 170 countries who signed a petition asking {{w|Pfizer}} and {{w|GSK}} to reduce the price of the pneumonia vaccine to $5 per child (for all three doses) for populations affected by crisis and for all developing countries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Investors join MSF in calling Pfizer to reduce the price of vaccine against top childhood killer |url=https://msfaccess.org/investors-join-msf-calling-pfizer-reduce-price-vaccine-against-top-childhood-killer |website=msfaccess.org |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> ||
 
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| 2017 || || "THE RETURN TO SOMALIA After our withdrawal from the country in 2013, MSF opens a nutrition programme in Somalia's Puntland region. Although security has not improved, our commitment to the people of Somalia, who face extreme suffering, leads us to dial up activities again. "<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2017 || Assistance || Mental health || MSF workers perform 306,300 individual mental health consultations and 49,800 group sessions in 52 countries.<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=20 July 2019}}</ref> ||
 
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| 2018 || || "DIPLOMATIC STAND-OFF AT SEA In June, 630 vulnerable refugees and migrants rescued by MSF and SOS MEDITERANEE on the Mediterranean Sea are denied entry to the nearest safe ports in Malta and Italy. MSF denounces Italy’s decision and other European governments’ choices of political point-scoring over saving lives at sea."<ref name="The MSF timeline"/> ||
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| 2017 || Assistance || Childbirth || MSF workers in {{w|Yemen}} help 7,900 women deliver their babies.<ref>{{cite web |title=MSF IN YEMEN: HELPING AMID CONFLICT |url=https://borgenproject.org/msf-in-yemen-helping-amid-conflict/ |website=borgenproject.org |accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Yemen}}
 
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| 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}}
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| 2018 (January) || || Disease/injury || MSF opens a paediatric surgical program at a hospital 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}}
 
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The comparative chart below shows {{w|Google Trends}} data for Médecins Sans Frontières (Non-profit organization in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg) and Médecins Sans Frontières (Search term), from January 2004 to March 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.<ref>{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fg%2F1tfm5lkf,M%C3%A9decins%20Sans%20Fronti%C3%A8res |website=Google Trends |access-date=20 March 2021}}</ref>
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=== Google Ngram Viewer ===
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The chart below shows {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}} data for Médecins Sans Frontières, from 1971 to 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=M%C3%A9decins+Sans+Fronti%C3%A8res&year_start=1971&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true |website=books.google.com |access-date=20 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article {{w|Médecins Sans Frontières}}, on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015; to February 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Médecins Sans Frontières |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=M%C3%A9decins+Sans+Fronti%C3%A8res&allmonths=allmonths&language=en&drilldown=all |website=wikipediaviews.org |access-date=20 March 2021}}</ref>
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Latest revision as of 20:58, 21 March 2024

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 Médecins Sans Frontières 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]
2000s Médecins Sans Frontières experiences steady growth.[5] Among great activist challenges is the support to the battle to bring down the price of antiretroviral drugs for people living with HIV in developing countries.[6] MSF's infrastructure like inflatable hospitals and telemedicine are developed in the decade.
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 remains independent from governments and political parties.[7]


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.[8] France
1972 Assistance Earthquake An earthquake in Nicaragua marks the first MSF mission in a natural disaster.[8] Nicaragua
1974 Assistance Hurricane MSF conducts a relief mission to assist people in Honduras after the devastating Hurricane Fifi–Orlene.[8] 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.[9] Cambodia
1976 Assistance War MSF conducts its first wartime mission in Lebanon and becomes a professional medical emergency organization.[10] Lebanon
1977 Activism MSF organizes its first major advertising campaign, featuring a picture of a child, looking into a camera from behind bars.[11]
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”.[12] Cambodia
1978 Assistance War MSF launches various refugee programs in Thailand, in Djibouti during the Ogaden War and Eritrean refugees in Sudan.[13] Thailand, Djibouti, Sudan
1979 Staff MSF Co-founder Dr Bernard Kouchner leaves to form a new group, Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World).[13]
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.[13]
1979 Assistance War MSF starts working in Somalia, in times of the Somali Rebellion.[14] Somalia
1979 Assistance War MSF sets up missions to help civilians in South Sudan affected by starvation and the civil war.[15] Sudan
1980 Assistance War MSF launches its first nutritional program in the midst of drought and civil war in Karamoja, Uganda.[13] 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.[13] Afghanistan
1980 Branch MSF-Belgium is founded.[16] Belgium
1981 War MSF hospitals in Afghanistan are bombarded.[13] Afghanistan
1981 Administration MSF sets up its first logistics department to coordinate and channel emergency medical relief.[2]
1981 Branch MSF-Switzerland is established.[17] Switzerland
1982 Assistance General MSF begins working in Rwanda.[18] 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.[19] France
1984 Assistance Malnutrition MSF starts programs to treat malnutrition in Ethiopia.[20] Ethiopia
1984 Branch MSF establishes office in the Netherlands.[21] Netherlands
1984 Suborganization MSF creates the Liberté Sans Frontières (LSF) Foundation, a think-tank on development and human rights issues.[12]
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.[22] 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.[19] Belgium
1985 Withdrawal The Government of Ethiopia expells MSF doctors on accusations for speaking out against Government policies.[23] Ethiopia
1985 Assistance Starvation MSF adds food relief to its eight-year-long mission in Eritrea, which has previously focused on emergency medicine.[24] Eritrea
1985 Assistance War MSF assists with medical care in Honduras to refugees from El Salvador and Nicaragua during armed conflict.[13] Honduras
1985 Branch MSF-Spain is established.[3] Spain
1986 Assistance War MSF organizes mobile clinics and starts assisting injured and traumatized people affected by the Sri Lankan Civil War.[25] Sri Lanka
1986 Suborganization MSF France creates MSF Logistique to manage the stocks of equipment and medicines to be sent to missions.[19] 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.[19] Luxemburg, France
1986 Administration MSF France registers as an overseas organization in the United Kingdom.[19] United Kingdom
1986 Administration MSF Belgium creates its own green logo.[19] 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.[19] France
1987 Assistance Disease MSF vaccinates 2.5 million Nigerians in the region around Ibadan and in Anambra State.[26] Nigeria
1987 Assistance General MSF doctors start working in the Philippines.[27] Philippines
1987 Suborganization MSF France launches a satellite organization called "Epicentre" to conduct epidemiological studies and assessments in field settings.[28] France
1988 Assistance MSF is requested to start an intervention to address urgent health needs in the area of the Western Upper Nile.[29] 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.[19] Belgium, Netherlands
1988 Assistance Earthquake MSF assists victims of the earthquake of Armenia.[30] 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.[31] Malawi
1988 Assistance General MSF starts operations in Algeria. The organization would close its projects in 2016 in the country.[32] Algeria
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.[13] 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.[19] Belgium
1990 Withdrawal Crime MSF suspends activities in Afghanistan after a logistician from the organization is murdered.[13] Afghanistan
1990 Assistance War MSF begins working in Liberia in response to the civil war.[33] Liberia
1990 Branch MSF-Greece is established.[34] Greece
1990 Branch MSF establishes office in the United States.[35] 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.[36] Palestine
1991 Assistance Disease (HIV/AIDS) MSF initiates an HIV/AIDS prevention program in Uganda.[37] Uganda
1991 Branch MSF establishes office in Canada.[38] Canada
1991 Assistance General MSF starts operations in Brazil. All projects would be closed in 2011.[39] Brazil
1992 Branch MSF establishes office in Japan.[40] Japan
1992 Branch MSF Sweden is established.[19] 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”.[12]
1992 Activism The MSF International Office organizes the ‘Populations in Danger’ Days and the production of the ‘MSF Report on the Populations in Danger.’[19]
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.[41] Netherlands
1993 Assistance War MSF starts operations in Burundi during the civil war in the country.[42] Burundi
1993 Branch MSF establishes office in the United Kingdom.[43] United Kingdom
1993 Branch MSF-Italy is established.[19] Italy
1993 Branch MSF Denmark is established.[19] 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.[44]
1994 Branch MSF-Australia is established.[45] Australia
1994 Branch MSF Germany, MSF Hong Kong, MSF Australia, and MSF Austria are established.[46][19] Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, Austria
1995 Assistance War MSF doctors assist civilians during the First Chechen War.[47] Russia
1995 Branch MSF France’s Antenna is set up in the United Arab Emirates.[19] United Arab Emirates
1995 Assistance MSF becomes the first European NGO to begin working in North Korea.[48] North Korea
1996 Recognition MSF receive the Seoul Peace Prize.[15] South Korea
1996 Branch MSF Norway is established.[19] 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.[49] Nigeria
1996 (November) Activism War MSF calls for armed international intervention in Rwanda, “to protect the refugees and guarantee access to aid”.[12] 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.[13] Rwanda
1997 Literature Forced displacement MSF publishes the book Refugee Health, which establishes ten top priorities for managing refugee emergencies.[50]
1997 Assistance Flood MSF in North Korea distributes 2,200 tons of spring barley seeds to help the population cope with flood damage and increase agricultural production.[51] North Korea
1998 Policy Mental health MSF formally recognizes the importance of providing mental healthcare and psychosocial care as part of its emergency work.[52][53]
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.[54]
1998 (October–November) Assistance Hurricane MSF assists victims of Hurricane Mitch in Central America.[55] 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".[56] Sweden
1999 Assistance Cyclone MSF India doctors assist victims of the cyclone in Odisha.[57] India
1999 Assistance War MSF doctors provide humanitarian assistance to refugees in Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro during the Kosovo War.[58] Kosovo
2000 Assistance War MSF doctors assist victims during the Sierra Leone Civil War.[59] Sierra Leone
2000 Assistance Disease (HIV/AIDS) MSF teams in Thailand break rules to import affordable HIV medicines to treat patients from HIV/AIDS.[60] Thailand
2001 Assistance Disease (HIV/AIDS) MSF starts providing antiretroviral therapy to people living with AIDS in several countries.[13] Thailand, Cambodia, Cameroon, Guatemala, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa
2001 Assistance Earthquake MSF assists victims of the earthquake in Gujarat.[57] 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.[61] North Korea, China, South Korea
2002 Assistance Disease (chagas) MSF starts its first Chagas project in Bolivia, the country with the highest Chagas prevalence in the world.[62] Bolivia
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.[63]
2004 Assistance Disease (tuberculosis) MSF treats patients for tuberculosis in nearly 50 projects in 24 countries.[64] 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.[65]
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.[66] 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.[67] 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.[31] 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.[31] Pakistan
2006 Branch The MSF-Czech Republic office is established in Prague.[68] Czechia
2006 Assistance Disease (malaria) MSF treats 1.8 million people for malaria in its projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.[63] Africa, Asia, Latin America
2007 Assistance Disease (ebola) MSF teams assist patients during an Ebola outbreak in Uganda.[69][70] Uganda
2007 Assistance Repression MSF starts to provide medical assistance to Zimbabwean refugees in the border town of Musina, South Africa.[71] South Africa, Zimbabwe
2007 Assistance War MSF assists civilians affected by the Somali Civil War. War surgery programs start in several locations.[14] Somalia
2008 Assistance Disease (cholera) MSF doctors assist patients during an outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe.[72] 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.[71]
2009 Withdrawal MSF is expelled from Darfur, and its activities in Niger are suspended by the government.[73] Sudan, Niger
2009 Assistance War MSF opens a surgical hospital 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.[74] 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.[75]
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.[73] Sri Lanka
2009 Assistance Malnutrition MSF workers treat 250,000 malnourished children in 34 countries in the year.[76]
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.[31]
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.[77] Pakistan
2010 Activism Malnutrition MSF and the VII Photo Agency launch the "Starved For Attention" multimedia campaign on global malnutrition.[13]
2010 (January) Assistance Earthquake MSF doctors assist victims of the Haitian earthquake.[78] 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.[78] Pakistan
2010 Infrastructure MSF develops a multilingual telemedicine network to assist its field medical staff by providing direct access to specialist advice.[79]
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.[78] 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.[80] Pakistan
2012 Assistance General MSF in the Democratic Republic of Congo provides over 1.6 million outpatient consultations, treats 434,300 patients for malaria, admits over 90,000 patients to hospital and vaccinates 407,600 people against measles across the country.[81] Democratic Republic of Congo
2012 Assistance General MSF launches a large emergency program caused by massive influx of Sudanese refugees into South Sudan. The organization provides a total of 869,300 outpatient consultations, admits over 46,700 patients to hospital, treats 148,700 patients for malaria and vaccinates 204,800 people against measles. Teams also launch emergency response to the flooding in Yambio and the measles outbreak in Gogrial.[81] South Sudan
2012 Assistance General MSF in Somalia provides a total of 624,200 outpatient consultations, admits over 40,000 patients to hospital, treats over 30,000 severely malnourished patients, and conducts 2,750 surgical procedures in 13 areas of the country.[81] Somalia
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.[82] Somalia
2013 Assistance Disease (tuberculosis) MSF begins implementation of a shortened treatment course for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Uzbekistan.[31] 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.[83] By December 2014 MSF would restart primary health clinics in the country.[84] Myanmar
2014 Infrastructure Disease (tuberculosis) 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
2015 Assistance General MSF intervenes in 69 countries, where it develops 446 humanitarian projects. The organization realizes 8.6 million medical consultations and hospitalizes nearly 600 000 patients.[85]
2015 Assistance Disease (ebola) MSF opens the Bardnesville Junction Hospital (BJH) in Monrovia, at the time the epicenter of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic.[86] Liberia
2016 Assistance General MSF establishes a decentralized Middle East unit based in Amman, Jordan to support MSF operations in the Middle East.[87] Jordan
2016 Activism MSF delivers the names of more than 416,000 people from 170 countries who signed a petition asking Pfizer and GSK to reduce the price of the pneumonia vaccine to $5 per child (for all three doses) for populations affected by crisis and for all developing countries.[88]
2017 Assistance Mental health MSF workers perform 306,300 individual mental health consultations and 49,800 group sessions in 52 countries.[89]
2017 Assistance Childbirth MSF workers in Yemen help 7,900 women deliver their babies.[90] Yemen
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.[91] Liberia

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