Timeline of Médecins Sans Frontières
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This is a timeline of Médecins Sans Frontières, an international humanitarian aid organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in nearly 70 countries.[1]
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| 1971 | "Founded: 1971 in Paris, France"[1] "Médecins Sans Frontières is founded by a group of French doctors and journalists in the wake of the war and accompanying famine in Biafra, Nigeria, and the floods in eastern Pakistan (now Bangladesh)." | France | |
| 1972 | "The earthquake in Nicaragua marks our first mission in a natural disaster." | Nicaragua | |
| 1974 | "HURRICANE IN HONDURAS Our first mission of long-term medical assistance." | Honduras | |
| 1975 | "CAMBODIANS FLEE KHMER ROUGE. MSF establishes its first large-scale medical programme during a refugee crisis, providingmedical care for waves of Cambodians seeking sanctuary from Pol Pot’s rule." | Cambodia | |
| 1976 | "WAR IN LEBANONOur teams conduct surgery in the organisation's first major intervention in a war zone." | Lebanon | |
| 1978 | "REFUGEE ASSISTANCEMSF launchs of various refugee programmes in Thailand, in the Ogaden region (Djibouti, war between Ethiopia and Somalia) and Eritrean refugees in Sudan." | ||
| 1979 | "Co-founder Dr Bernard Kouchner leaves in protest and later founds Médecins du Monde/Doctors of the World." | ||
| 1979 | "Led by Dr Claude Malhuret and Dr Francis Charhon, MSF moves beyond its modus operandi of sending isolated doctors to crisis zones in favour of creating a more structured organisation that can provide quality medical services in crises." | ||
| 1980 | "FIRST NUTRITIONAL PROGRAMMEIn the Karamoja province of Uganda, MSF's first nutritional programme is launched in the midst of drought and civil war." | Uganda | |
| 1980 | "WAR IN AFGHANISTANAfter the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the final days of 1979, triggering a war that would last a decade, MSF medical teams clandestinely cross the Pakistani–Afghan border and travel by mule for several weeks to reach injured civilians living in remote areas." | Afghanistan | |
| 1980 | "FIRST INTERNATIONAL APPEAL“Walk for survival of Cambodia”, MSF's first international appeal, is launched in protest against the Vietnamese authorities stopping our teams from bringing aid to Cambodia." | Cambodia | |
| 1981 | "Bombardments of MSF hospitals in Afghanistan" | Afghanistan | |
| 1984 | "MSF starts programmes to treat malnutrition in hunger-stricken regions of Ethiopia." | Ethiopia | |
| 1985 | "MSF is expelled by the government from Ethiopia after denouncing the hijacking of humanitarian aid and the forced transfers of populations by the latter." | ||
| 1985 | "MSF provide medical care in Honduras to refugees from El Salvador and Nicaragua." | Honduras | |
| 1986 | "MSF organises mobile clinics and hospital programmes to treat injured and traumatised citizens in Sri Lanka. | Sri Lanka | |
| 1986 | Yemen intervention in Aden where fighting rages between rival factions of the ruling party." | Yemen | |
| 1989 | "Withdrawal from Sudan after an MSF plane is shot down by a missile, killing 4 people, two of them MSF volunteers." | Sudan | |
| 1989 | "Iraq attacks Kurds. We were the first medical organisation that bore witness to the use of chemical weapons on the Kurdish town of Halabja." | ||
| 1989 | "MSF provide medical care in the Soviet Union." | ||
| 1990 | "An MSF logistician is murdered in Afghanistan. Activities suspended." | ||
| 1990 | CIVIL WAR IN LIBERIA"Our teams provide emergency care at the height of the fighting." | ||
| 1991 | "The MSF relief convoy evacuating the wounded from Vukovar hospital comes under attack. Three of our workers are wounded." | ||
| 1991 | "EMERGENCY IN SOMALIA MSF represents the only foreign presence in war-stricken Mogadishu, and aids refugees in other countries." | Somalia | |
| 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" | Kurdistan | |
| 1992 | "EMERGENCY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA One hundred MSF volunteers work in the region affected by war, drought and displacement of populations." | ||
| 1992 | "BOSNIA MSF denounces ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity." | Bosnia | |
| 1993 | "CIVIL WAR IN BURUNDI A failed coup d’état in October resulted in 750,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Rwanda, Tanzania and Zaire. MSF deploy 85 volunteers in the region but delays in the international relief effort cause widespread famine in the refugee camps." | ||
| 1993–1994 | "WAR IN BOSNIA Medical programmes in the region extend to the UN's supposed "protection zones" of Gorazde and Srebrenica." | ||
| 1994 | "GENOCIDE IN RWANDA MSF remain in Kigali throughout the genocide of more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. We make an unprecedented decision to call for military intervention. One million Rwandan refugees arrive in the small town of Goma, Zaire. Within days, we collaborate on the biggest cholera programme to date." | Rwanda | |
| 1995 | "WAR IN CHECHNYA MSF bring aid to civilians inside the republic and in refugee camps in neighbouring countries." | ||
| 1995 | "SREBRENICA MASSACRE Our team witness the fall of the UN "protected zone", and denounce the subsequent massacre of up to 10,000 civilians by Serbian troops." | ||
| 1996 | "MENINGITIS IN NIGERIA MSF launch a massive vaccination and treatment programme helping 4.5 million people." | Nigeria | |
| 1997 | "STREET CHILDREN NEGLECTED IN MADAGASCAR, BRAZIL AND THE PHILIPPINES MSF medical and social programmes for vulnerable and marginalised youth are expanded. | Madagascar | |
| 1997 | "RWANDAN REFUGEES SEEK AID MSF assist 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." | Rwanda | |
| 1997 | "RWANDAN REFUGEE CRISIS CONTINUES MSF fight for access to Rwandan refugees, many of whom are massacred or die of starvation and disease." | Rwanda | |
| 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." | North Korea |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Médecins Sans Frontières History". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
