Doctors Without Borders Research Paper

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Over one-third of the world’s population has no way of accessing medicines that are essential to their health and survival. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) also known in English as, Doctors Without Borders, is a humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people worldwide affected by endemic, conflict, catastrophe, or exclusion from health care. The MSF has provided medical aid to over 70 countries, including Africa, Cambodia, Hati, and many others.
The MSF started during the aftermath of the Biafara secession in 1971 by a small group of French doctors and journalists who desired to expand the accessibility of medical care globally (Redfield 56). The reason they created this organization in the belief that everyone should have

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