Doctors Without Borders is an organization whose goal is to provide high quality care to people and situations that have been largely neglected. Their focus is on providing independent and impartial care to countries around the world. What this means is that MSF provides medical to people in need without regard to their military, political or religious associations. They provide care to people whose “survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.”
While MSF is impartial in providing care, they do take a stance and speak out against several issues. They condemn the neglect of certain crises and the abuse of the aid system. They promote improvement of medical treatment used by humanitarian organizations. They also call for enhanced protocols and laws used by and for humanitarian organizations.
Throughout the world they have medical teams that consist of 22,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professions working together in over 60 countries. These medical teams provide services such as: outpatient consultations, baby delivery, treatment of malaria and moderate to severe malnourishment, antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV/AIDS, surgeries, and vaccinations. MSF provides these services and responds to instances of: armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters, and instances of exclusion from healthcare.
For the year 2011, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) had total revenue of $191,446,594. The program expense was $153,245,178. Yet the administrative expense was $2,342,798. There was also a fundraising expense of $22,636,178. So out of all of MSF’s expense for 2011, their greatest expense is the program expense and the smallest expense is the administrative expense.
Partners In Health is an international non-profit organization. The goal of this organization is to provide direct healthcare services to, research treatments for and advocate activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer’s research has focused on community based treatment strategies for infectious diseases in resource poor locations. Dr. Farmer has also been advocating for health and human rights and fighting against social inequalities in determining disease distribution and outcomes. Dr. Farmer is currently the Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He also served for ten years as medical director of the charity hospital, L’Hôpital Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti. Also from 2009 to 2012 Dr. Farmer was the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, under Special Envoy Bill Clinton. And in December 2012, Dr. Farmer was named the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Community Based Medicine and Lessons From Haiti. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have made huge strides in developing community based treatment strategies that have helped provide high quality care to people in resource poor settings. Partner’s In Health’s Program Expense is 94.1% of their revenue. Administrative Expenses are 2.6% of their revenue. Fundraising Expenses are 3.2% of their revenue.
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Barnett, Michael N., and Thomas George. Weiss. "Humanitarianism A Brief History of the Present." Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2008. N. pag. Print.
"Charity Directory." Charity Navigator. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 June 2013. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary>.
Dartmouth First Year Lecture: Mountains Beyond Mountains. N.d. YouTube, 17 Sept. 2009. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0w1e_Z_LU>.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
"Partners In Health." Our Founders. Partners In Health, n.d. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://www.pih.org/pages/our-founders>.
"Paul Farmer Biography." -- Academy of Achievement. N.p., 12 May 2010. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/far1bio-1>.
"Paul Farmer, MD, PhD." The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/people/faculty/farmer/>.
While MSF is impartial in providing care, they do take a stance and speak out against several issues. They condemn the neglect of certain crises and the abuse of the aid system. They promote improvement of medical treatment used by humanitarian organizations. They also call for enhanced protocols and laws used by and for humanitarian organizations.
Throughout the world they have medical teams that consist of 22,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professions working together in over 60 countries. These medical teams provide services such as: outpatient consultations, baby delivery, treatment of malaria and moderate to severe malnourishment, antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV/AIDS, surgeries, and vaccinations. MSF provides these services and responds to instances of: armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters, and instances of exclusion from healthcare.
For the year 2011, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) had total revenue of $191,446,594. The program expense was $153,245,178. Yet the administrative expense was $2,342,798. There was also a fundraising expense of $22,636,178. So out of all of MSF’s expense for 2011, their greatest expense is the program expense and the smallest expense is the administrative expense.
Partners In Health is an international non-profit organization. The goal of this organization is to provide direct healthcare services to, research treatments for and advocate activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer’s research has focused on community based treatment strategies for infectious diseases in resource poor locations. Dr. Farmer has also been advocating for health and human rights and fighting against social inequalities in determining disease distribution and outcomes. Dr. Farmer is currently the Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He also served for ten years as medical director of the charity hospital, L’Hôpital Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti. Also from 2009 to 2012 Dr. Farmer was the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, under Special Envoy Bill Clinton. And in December 2012, Dr. Farmer was named the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Community Based Medicine and Lessons From Haiti. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have made huge strides in developing community based treatment strategies that have helped provide high quality care to people in resource poor settings. Partner’s In Health’s Program Expense is 94.1% of their revenue. Administrative Expenses are 2.6% of their revenue. Fundraising Expenses are 3.2% of their revenue.
Sources:
Barnett, Michael N., and Thomas George. Weiss. "Humanitarianism A Brief History of the Present." Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2008. N. pag. Print.
"Charity Directory." Charity Navigator. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 June 2013. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary>.
Dartmouth First Year Lecture: Mountains Beyond Mountains. N.d. YouTube, 17 Sept. 2009. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0w1e_Z_LU>.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
"Partners In Health." Our Founders. Partners In Health, n.d. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://www.pih.org/pages/our-founders>.
"Paul Farmer Biography." -- Academy of Achievement. N.p., 12 May 2010. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/far1bio-1>.
"Paul Farmer, MD, PhD." The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/people/faculty/farmer/>.