MSF History
This language is used for the international name of Doctors Without Borders and is the official language of several countries in North America, Europe, and Africa.
What is French?
This medical innovation trains the immune system to recognize and combat harmful pathogens, and has played a crucial role in eradicating diseases like smallpox and reducing measles worldwide.
What is a vaccine or immunization?
In 1796, Edward Jenner created the modern vaccine for what disease, now considered eradicated?
What is Smallpox?
This is a common mental health condition affecting many civilians and soldiers due to trauma experienced during war.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
This action, done right after birth, helps protect newborns from illness by giving them antibodies from their mother’s first milk.
What is breastfeeding?
This year Doctors Without Borders was started in Paris, France.
What is 1971?
Often called the cornerstone of public health, this field studies the distribution and determinants of diseases in populations to control health problems and prevent outbreaks.
What is epidemiology?
What infectious disease caused a pandemic in 2020 and led to shutdowns across the world (use full scientific name).
What is SARS-CoV-2?
This major conflict in the Middle East has lasted two years, seen over 60,000 deaths, and has led to a near closure of the local healthcare system, requiring emergency aid from MSF.
What is the Israel-Hamas War?
This life-saving surgery may be necessary during complicated childbirth when the baby cannot pass through the birth canal safely, however is often unpractical is resource limited settings.
What is a cesarean section (C-section)?
This year, Doctors Without Borders received the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is 1999?
This type of cancer, often linked to smoking and exposure to certain environmental toxins, is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide.
What is Lung cancer?
The flu shot is recommended by the WHO and CDC for yearly vaccination for nearly all people over the age of six months. What animal's eggs are often used to produce this vaccine each year?
What is a chicken/hen?
This Civil War in the Middle East lasted nearly 14 years and just ended in December 2024, leading to the largest forced migration of refugees in recent human history, resulting in one of the largest MSF campaigns ever developed.
What is the Syrian Civil War?
MSF runs programs to provide this crucial service, though controversial in the U.S., enabling women in displacement settings to control their reproductive health.
What is family planning or contraception?
This off-road vehicle became iconic for Doctors Without Borders missions and is often used as an ambulance in austere areas or terrain.
What is the Toyota Land Cruiser?
Founded in 1948 and headquartered in Geneva, this United Nations agency leads international efforts to monitor public health, coordinate responses to pandemics, and promote universal healthcare.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This sexually transmitted infection is the most common STD in the world, with the virus being one of the leading causes of cervical cancer.
What is HPV (or Human papillomavirus)?
This youngest country in the world faces significant public health challenges including limited access to clean water, high rates of infectious diseases like malaria, and a fragile healthcare infrastructure due to ongoing conflict and displacement.
What is South Sudan?
MSF provides treatment to this common condition that involves high blood pressure during pregnancy and can lead to seizures if untreated.
This North African country's civil war and proceeding famine lead to the development of the non-partisan emergency medical organization, Doctors Without Borders.
What is Nigeria?
This collaborative approach recognizes that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment, and is used to address issues like zoonotic diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
What is One Health?
This historic infectious disease once known as consumption still persists today, and most commonly identified via a dermal test although it is almost non-existent in the United States today.
What is Tuberculosis?
In this landlocked South-Central Asian country, ongoing conflict and recent regime changes have severely impacted healthcare access, especially for women and girls, with many international aid organizations suspending operations and maternal mortality rates among the highest in the world.
What is Afghanistan?
Expecting mothers in developed and developing countries take a supplement, because a deficiency in this vitamin during pregnancy can cause neural tube defects like spina bifida in newborns.
What is Folic Acid?