...PETITPREZ Thibaut Professor E.VOUTIRA University of Macedonia Forced Migration in East and S.E. Europe MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES/MEDECINS DU MONDE : Operating, aim and differences Summary 1 - Médecins Sans frontières 2 - The "Break-up"/Creation of Médecins du Monde 3 - Differences 4 - Bibliography Médecins Sans frontières Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without borders), is a French non-governmental organization. Reminder of the definition of a NGO : A nongovernmental organization is an organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any form of government and of course a non-profit organization. Even if MSF was created in 1971, we can say that the real foundation of it happened with the Nigerian-Biafra War. This was started in July 1967 and ended up in January 1970, it was a political conflict caused by the attempted secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra. With the development of photojournalism this war was turned into a media event in the international political scene and permit the Western to realize what the third-world was living at this time. “We were young and we were 20” : A group of young French doctors, with political believes, pledged in the army, decided to join “La Croix-Rouge Française” which was looking for volunteers. But before going in Nigeria, they had to signed a contract...
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...Doctors Without Borders Crystal Stophel ETH/316 August 6, 2013 Leslie Ann Dunn Doctors without Borders According to “Medecins Sans Frontieres”(2013). “Doctors without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) works in nearly 70 countries providing medical aid to those most in need regardless of their race, religion, or political affiliation”. This international medical humanitarian organization was established in 1971 by doctors and journalist. There are several reasons MSF provides medical aid to those in need. Epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare are some of the reasons the MSF would provide help. The organization also advocates in situations where issues are neglected. The MSF reserves the right to bring attention to any situation that the organization sees as abuse or neglect. MSF operates independently and are separate from any political, military, or religious affiliations, and remains neutral. The MSF evaluates certain areas to determine how great of a need there is in that particular area before opening a program. Since the MSF operates independently, funding for the organization comes from private, non-government sources. In 2009, MSF had 3.8 million individual donors and private funders worldwide. (“History and Principles”, 2013) Ethically the MSF believes it not only important to help one in a time of need, but also to advocate for one in need. They believe no matter race, religion, or political affiliation everyone deserves...
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...English Summary Assignment number 2 * Omar Samy Mohamed * ID: 122263 * Group: 33 In the article entitled “Crisis, Disaster and Doctors Without Borders” the author discuss that in 1971, a group of doctors who met in France created an organization called “Médecins Sans Frontières” or “MSF” as this group of doctors believed that al people all over the world have the right to have a medical care during that duration this organization was very small as it consisted of doctors who volunteered as on the other side the majority of doctors didn’t join because they live on the money they earned from their job as since 1978 the organization activates started to spread quickly due to the world conflicts and the huge growth of refugee camps what’s more they started to have fund raising techniques in order to continue their rough journey as in 1987 a US branch of “Doctors Without Borders” was released in New York to allow American doctors to join moreover “Doctors Without Borders” is very efficient organization and quick to come to the aid of people crisis also the main job of the team is to evaluate the medical and nutritional needs of the people in that area in addition the mission of the organization was to hear the witness and speak out as when the situation is hopeless the organization takes action ,speak out and start to aware safe people in order they give a helping hand to save people’s lives however the organization receives a huge...
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...LECTURE 2: NGO, Concept and Governance Defining Criteria Size - it started out as small, informal structures in which management issues can be dealt with on an ad hoc (unplanned), informal basis, may rapidly grow in size if they find favour with donor agencies. SIZE: some (e.g. Greenpeace, Oxfam, International Committee of the Red Cross, Medecins sans Frontieres) are large, multinational bodies, with offices in many countries (and often multiple branches within a single country), and large full-time and salaried staffs. At the other extreme, I know of a number of "NGOs" that are in practice one- or two-person operations, dependent on and run by entirely voluntary (perhaps even part-time) effort. Organizational structure - Mars (1992) says that that the above is possible because the organizational structure of the NGOs are informal and not bureaucratic or hierarchical, and they are result oriented rather than paying attention to regulations and protecting their political power. NGOs may be large or small, formal or informal, bureaucratic or flexible Top Management -----> <----Staffs members Operational Programme areas – Humanitarian, indigenous, environment, charity, etc Geographical specificity – GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE: Compare large bodies such as Greenpeace, who take on issues fron global to local (but anywhere in the world) scale, with, for example, a European NGO whose work focuses only on a specific country or region or issue overseas (e.g there is an...
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...RUNNING HEAD: Book Review Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project’ – Book Review [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institution] Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project’ – Book Review Introduction Ethics comprises key organisational elements in today’s world regardless of the job responsibility that describes oneself and this is why its evaluation is done and relevant implication studied in each sector and industry. Whether it is the provision of humanitarian aid or it is the manufacturing of pharmaceutical drugs, there are certain ethical boundaries that are important to be mindful of so that they are not breached as it comes attached with severe negative consequences. In the light of this argument for the purpose of strengthening it, a book edited by Caroline Abu-Sada named ‘Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project’ will be reviewed. Discussion As obvious from the book title, Médecins Sans Frontière s' also known as ‘Doctors without Borders’ is used as the case study for the purpose of enlightening the audience of the ethical challenges and moral dilemmas in addition to the ethics that revolve around humanitarian action (Kramer, Soskolne, Mustapha and Al-Delaimy, 2012, a299-301). The prominent theme that characterises...
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...Doctors Without Borders Doctors without borders is a French founded, non-governmental organization which provides humanitarian aid in the form of medical services to poverty or war stricken countries. It provides medicines, training to fight endemic diseases, treatment, mobile hospitals and blood testing programs in under developed countries. Doctors without borders is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a completely volunteer based service which works raises funds with the help of international donations from people, companies and governments. Private donations consist of 80% of the organizations funding. In 2015 over 30,000, mostly local, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, logistical experts, water and sanitation engineers and administrators provided medical aid in over 70 countries. This group was formed in 1971 after the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970. Few nations around the world knew about the conditions of civilians in that war, therefore France set a team of French Doctors who collaborated with the French Red Cross to work in hospitals in Nigeria. The doctors then witnessed all the atrocities in that war and therefore decided that a new organization must be formed which that would ignore political/religious boundaries and prioritize the welfare of victims. Doctors without borders has operated humanitarian missions the following countries: Nicaragua – The organization provided relief work and medical support to earthquake victims in the year...
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...METHODOLOGY A. RESEARCH APPROACH This research consists of a survey, considered a quantitative strategy an approach that “that provides a quantitative or numeric descript of trends, attitudes, or opinions of a population by studying a sample of the population” (Creswell, 2009, p. 12). This study will involve a questionnaire, used like a structured interview for collecting data to assist with answering the three research questions; and intended to generalize a sample population of five NGOs (Babbie, 1990 cited in Creswell, 2009, p. 12). B. CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH APPROACH The characteristics of case study research embody the following (derived from Creswell, 2009, p. 175-176): multiple sources of data; theoretical lens; and participant meaning.. First, multiple sources of data may include: observation, case studies related to humanitarian organizations, documentation from humanitarian organization’s source to donors, and other mass media and social media available. Additionally, the study will use framing theory as its guiding approach and how it relates to soft power theory, to understand how humanitarian organizations develop their messages. Finally, the participant meaning by reviewing the responses NGOs have toward the research questions to view “the meaning that the participants hold about the problem or issue, not the meaning that the reaserchers bring to the research or writers express in the literature”(Creswell, 2009, p. 176). C. RESEARCH STRATEGY ...
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...Starved for Attention The webby award winner I chose was “Starved for Attention” at www.starvedforattention.org This website is a plea for awareness by Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) or as we know it, Doctors without Borders. This website won the News and Documentary Emmy Award and a Webby for Activism. Target Audience The target audience is the worldwide population who has the technology to get on a computer and sign the petition to push forward the campaign to give grossly malnourished children the nutritional food they need. The website is an eye opener because while as Americans we think that we are helping under developed nations by providing a corn-soy blend of food rations, this food does not contain the nutritional value that a child from birth to at least age two needs. The information on the website alerts the viewer that there is an initiative to provide a supplemental food which contains protein and can prevent starvation and reduce risk of infection in young children. Page Layout The page layout is effective while complex. The homepage originally captures your attention with a video and text related to the video, but the remainder of the page was a scroll down to view different stories. I would have preferred the stories were on the navigation bar at the top, and you could choose from there rather than scrolling the page. Browser Compatibility I viewed this website in three different browsers: Safari, Firefox and Chrome. The website quality rendered equally...
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...Haiti Quake of 2010 On January 12th, 2010, Tuesday afternoon, a fierce earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti causing a crowded hospital to collapse, leveled countless dwellings, and brought even more suffering to a nation that was already the poorest and most disaster-prone in its hemisphere. Haiti has also gone through multiple previous natural disasters. When Haiti was a French colony, French historian recorded many earthquakes. In Port-au-Prince in the year 1757, one earthquake was so big that only one stonework building hadn’t collapsed. In 1770, the whole city of Port-au-Prince collapsed due to an earthquake according to Moreau de Saint-Mery. North of Haiti, Dominican Republic, and the Sans-Souci Palace, other towns were demolished from an earthquake on May of 1842. An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 hit the Dominican Republic and made Haiti shake on August of 1946, producing a killer tsunami that took the lives of 1,790 people and injured others. The Haiti earthquake of January 2010 consisted a magnitude of 7.0, that occurred local approximately sixteen miles from Port-au-Prince with 8.1 miles as its depth. Occuring on blind thrust faults connected with the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system. There is no evidence of surface rupture. Recorded in Port-au-Prince on the Modified Mercalli scale, there was intense shaking connected with intensity IX. The earthquake was a result of a rupture of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault that was locked for 250 years...
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...There’s lots of people in Congo going through such hard time like rape, murder and kidnapping that has been taking place and also other act of violence, the help that Médecins Sans Frontières could offer to people in Congo is limited because of the issues that has been going on which have pushed people go out of their homes (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International, 2014). Certain people in Democratic Republic of Congo to just get access to healthcare they have to walk miles of hours; Médecins Sans Frontières head of mission Christine Buesser say: “imagine you are pregnant woman, and you may even have to carry another child on your back. These distances are very distances are very difficult to overcome. This is a daily challenge – just to get to a health facility.” From the look of it you can tell that Congo is facing lots of difficulties when it comes to actual health which evidently you can see people are struggling and not getting the healthcare they need to receive (Médecins Sans Frontières...
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...1. Target Audience On brief 1, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is a humanity organisation, they provides emergency medical care. To support that, they want to make people realise, and rising the awareness about clean water and sanitation to prevent the potential of spread diseases in refugee camps. In this press release will give information and want to get people attention to help the organisations to produce more water purification kit. The target audiences are young-adult, adult to tell them that clean water is important, to donors, company is interest to support the organisations or corporate support and people who are care to other people. 2. Press Release Respecting Water 12 February 2014 ©Jacob Simkin ------------------------------------------------- -On the west bank of the Nile As known that Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) officially was created on 22nd December 1971, is independent humanitarian organisation. They help and provide emergency medical care for people around the world. They provide this for the victims of war, natural disasters, epidemics irrespective of race and political affiliation. During they provide medical care in makeshift refugee camps, clean water is very important and it is very hard to be found that becomes a serious problem. Clean water is not only for medical purposes but also for drinking water and for bathing or sanitations reasons. Sometimes clean water is hard to be found, it made MSF to think about the solutions to get clean...
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...November 21, 2015 Was Kunduz a War Crime? In the early hours of October 3, 2015, an Afghan hospital, run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Kunduz, Afghanistan was repeatedly attacked, bombed and obliterated by an American airship which left 30 people dead, including 13 MSF staff. In their Internal Report, MSF has stated that the attack was not only premeditated but targeted. Per their protocol, they were weapons free and were in constant contact with Afghan and U.S. military groups and had recently sent the GPS coordinates as to their location. Communications prior to the airstrike were that all was calm within the hospital compound. Yet the U.S. Airship that bombed the hospital believed it was a Taliban headquarters and was being used as a human shield. How could there be such a miscommunication? MSF believes that the air strikes were an aggressive violation of the International Humanitarian Laws and the Geneva Conventions. To date there are ongoing NATO, US Military and Afghan Military investigations. MSF ultimately claims this was a war crime committed by the United States of America, and is asking President Obama for an independent impartial investigation conducted by the International Humanitarian Fact Finding Commission. Who is Medecins Sans Frontieres and what were they doing in Kunduz, Afghanistan? Why was there fighting going on between the Afghan Army and the Taliban? And, what role does the United...
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...The Impact of Globalization on the Health Sector in South Africa After the Apartheid era, massive inequalities in income, health status, access to health care and other social services continued to dominate in South Africa. The Apartheid era was a system of racial segregation that was implemented in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Due to colonization, whites had ruled South Africa for several centuries, which resulted in the creation of a system that was constructed to serve as a legal framework for continued economic and political dominance by people of European descent (WHO 2003: Antiretroviral Therapy). The apartheid era came to an end as a consequence of both inner and global pressure and South Africa’s new democratic government. The new government claims that improving the access to health care is a main priority noting, “emphasis should be placed on reaching … the most vulnerable” (Department of Health 1997:13). Giving access to health care is becoming an even greater challenge. South Africa was, and is still facing an exploding HIV/AIDS epidemic that, if anything, is highly associated with health care demands. Today, there are more than 5.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa, this accounts for more than 21.5% of the entire population (CIA World Fact book: 2006). This paper aims to understand how the health care sector has dealt with the challenges faced in dealing with immense inequalities and a growing epidemic in the context of globalization...
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...en plus, la Jordanie reçoit des patients venant d’Afrique tel que le Tchad ou bien le Nigeria. Les hôpitaux jordaniens traitent également des patients en provenance d’Amérique du nord, d’Europe de l’Ouest et d’Europe de l’Est tels que la Russie, la Biélorussie ou les pays du Caucase. Les patients demandant un traitement en Jordanie viennent généralement afin de pouvoir bénéficier de traitement des maladies cardio-vasculaires, des maladies rénales, de greffe, de chirurgie orthopédique, de la neurochirurgie et la chirurgie plastique. Les hôpitaux jordaniens sont bien équipés et disposent de matériel de pointe. Au moins 30 hôpitaux sont accrédités par les commissions internationales d’accréditation. Par ailleurs, la réputation des médecins jordaniens est aussi un facteur d’attractivité. Les opportunités : Le secteur médical a connu une augmentation du nombre d’hôpitaux et de lits disponibles au cours de la dernière décennie tant dans le public que dans le domaine privé. Le royaume dispose actuellement de 106 hôpitaux, dont 63 sont des hôpitaux privés, c’est un secteur en plein essor qui offre par conséquent des opportunités. ...
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...PREMIERE PARTIE : PRESENTATION GENERALE DE L’ACAUPED 2 I. Présentation 2 II. Historique 3 III. Réalisations 4 III.1. En Guinée 4 III.2. Au Mali 4 III.3. Au Cambodge 5 III.4. En France 5 IV. Moyens 5 IV.1. Ressources humaines 5 IV.2. Ressources financières 6 V. Formation 6 V.1. Evaluation 6 V.2. Conseil 6 V.3. Formation 6 VI. Méthodes 7 VI.1. Principes éthiques 7 VI.2. Méthodologie 7 DEUXIEME PARTIE : l’ACAUPED AU MALI 8 I. Présentation du Mali 8 II. Présentation des programmes 9 III. Réalisations des programmes 10 III.1. Objectifs 1 : Participation au développement du système de santé dans la région de Kayes 10 III.2. Objectif 2 : Mise en place d’une formation médicale continue autonome 11 III.3. Objectif 3 : Formation de formateurs 12 III.4. Objectif 4 : Construction d’un centre de formation 12 III.5. Objectif 5 : Former des praticiens en échographie pour améliorer les moyens diagnostiques 13 III.6. Objectif 6 : Apport en matériel médical 13 III.7. Objectif 7 : Amélioration de l’hygiène à l’hôpital 13 III.8. Objectif 8 : Réalisation de stage: un engagement Nord/Sud 14 III.9. Objectif 9 : Participer à la réforme hospitalière 14 III.10. Objectif 10 : Instauration d’un système d’assurance maladie 14 III.11. Objectif 11 : Développer le fonctionnement en réseaux. 14 IV. Projets d’avenir 15 TROISIEME PARTIE : EVALUATION DU SYSTEME BUCCO-DENTAIRE...
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