MSF History
The country in which MSF was founded.
What is France?
The leading cause of preventable death worldwide, this habit increases the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke
What is smoking?
MSF is currently helping this African country, which is currently experiencing a civil war and cholera outbreak.
What is Sudan?
“ER” is an acronym for this in a hospital.
What is Emergency Room?
The first successful vaccine ever developed was for this deadly viral disease, now eradicated worldwide.
What is smallpox?
In 1999, MSF was given this well-known award “in recognition of the organization’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents.”
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
A mosquito bite can transmit this disease, which is caused by a parasite and remains one of the leading causes of illness and death in sub-Saharan Africa.
What is malaria?
In order to provide children in remote areas of the Central African Republic with this disease prevention method, MSF doctors are travelling via motorcycle and canoe. This method of prevention involves injecting patients with a weak/dead version of the pathogen to induce immunity.
What are vaccines?
The term for a doctor you see first or for regular checkups
What is a primary care doctor (or primary care physician)?
This term describes the protection from disease that occurs when a large portion of a population becomes immune, reducing spread even among those not immune.
What is herd immunity?
During this 1994 genocide in East-Central Africa, MSF made the unprecedented decision to demand armed intervention. MSF acknowledged the unfortunate truth that doctors can not stop genocide.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
The international organization, founded in 1948, directs and coordinates health within the United Nations system
What is the World Health Organization?
This Indo-Aryan ethnic group has been experiencing displacement since 2017, when they were uprooted from Myanmar by the military.
Who are the Rohingya?
This health program helps people age 65 and older
What is Medicare?
This scientist is credited with discovering penicillin in 1928, revolutionizing the treatment of bacterial infections.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
MSF was founded in 1971 as a response to the Biafran famine in this African country. Hint: This country is on the western coast and is the most populous country in Africa.
What is Nigeria?
The DOTS strategy, standing for “Directly Observed Treatment, Short-couruse” is the cornerstone for controlling this infectious disease
What is tuberculosis?
After October 7th, 2023, this area has been MSF’s main focus for nearly two years, where they have been trying to provide healthcare while simultaneously facing attacks on hospitals and healthcare clinics
What is Gaza?
This is what HIPAA mainly protects.
What is patient health information privacy?
This global campaign, launched by the WHO in 1988, aims to completely eradicate a disease that primarily affects children and can cause paralysis.
What is the Global Polio Eradication Initiative?
SF started with 300 volunteers and is now composed of this many staff/volunteers.
What is 67,000 MSF staff/volunteers?
The term “double burden of disease” describes countries facing both infectious diseases and these conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension
What are non-communicable diseases?
The WHO has approved a new medication for this disease, which prevents the natural production of insulin by the body.
What is diabetes?
A patient’s right to say yes or no to treatment is called this.
What is informed consent?
This technology, used in COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, uses genetic instructions to teach the body to make a viral protein and trigger immunity.
What is mRNA vaccine technology?