🌍 MSF Facts
Doctors Without Borders is better known internationally by this French name.
What is Médecins Sans Frontières?
People may do this to find better opportunities for themselves, escape harm, or explore new regions. Mass forms of the phenomenon can be incredibly taxing on local infrastructure and create dangerous conditions for those participating in it
Migration (Or Immigration)
This 2022 invasion triggered Europe’s largest refugee crisis since WWII.
Ukraine
This childhood disease made headlines due to outbreaks in under-vaccinated communities.
Measles
This standardized test already lives rent-free in most premeds’ minds, as well as its cousin for predental students.
MCAT and DAT
This MSF principle requires providing care based on need alone, without discrimination.
What is impartiality?
This recent major U.S. supreme court decision not only dramatically changed reproductive medicine domestically, but access to health services provided by USAID and other government programs.
Dobbs decision
On October 3, 2015 the MSF Kunduz Hospital in Afghanistan was infamously bombed by this major world power
The U.S.
This disease remains endemic in only two countries, frequently noted in the news.
Polio
Clinical Vignette: A patient with untreated HIV presents with recurrent opportunistic infections.
AIDS
The majority of MSF funding comes from this source.
Private donors
This United Nations body consists of permanent and temporary members that vote on ceasefires, military interventions, humanitarian access, and other major political decisions that affect global stability and humanitarian welfare
The United Nations Security Council
This Civil War war started in 2023 in central Africa, and recently has been identified as the most dangerous place on Earth for civilians according to the Norwegian Refugee Council
Sudanese Civil War
This COVID vaccine technology became widely known during the pandemic, and recently has had advances in preventing certain forms of cancer
mRNA vaccines
Rapidly identifying the most urgent patients is referred to as
Triage
MSF won the Nobel Peace Prize in this year.
1999
This economic tool is used by governments to both "punish" governments and provide relief for segments for the economy, although they can have deeply damaging impacts on international health such as access to medicine and equipment
Sanctions
This Syrian city became synonymous with bombed hospitals earlier in the civil war.
Aleppo
This growing public health emergency is unique, in that is primarily affects developed countries due to their easy access to antibiotics, but is often fatal when these infections move to resource limited environments
Antimicrobial (antibiotic) resistance
Clinical Vignette: A patient has red, swollen gums that bleed easily when brushing.
Gingivitis
This concept explains why MSF may publicly criticize governments while still delivering medical care.
What is témoignage (bearing witness)?
This political term connects border security and humanitarian responsibility as global citizens have a right to request this at any port of entry of any UN country if you are fleeing violence or persecution.
Asylum
MSF was recently barred from working in this coastal region, due to its refusal to release patient and staff records
Gaza
This UN-backed alliance coordinates vaccine distribution in low-income countries.
GAVI
DRABC is a critical, five-step mnemonic used for the initial assessment and emergency care of a casualty, standing for