In 1971 is founded by doctors and journalists the institution of doctors without borders, which started with humanitarian aid in the escape from Cambodia, the first major medical program of the institution.
In 1980 after the USA invasion of Afghanistan MSF assists victims of war and offers shelter to them.
In 1984 MSF forms a major project against hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia and denounced the government for humanitarian aid diversion and so were expelled from the country.
In 1988 help in the earthquake of Armenia.
His first time in Brazil was in the Amazon in 1991 to help the victims of the cholera epidemic, they remained for 10 years until the creation of the DSEI (Special Indigenous Health Districts). In 1993 MSF reaches the river and works with the homeless.
In 1996 did precautions against STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) in Rio.
In 1999 won the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2003 acted in the conflicts in Liberia, and the 2004 to 2013 they working in various parts of the world with humanitarian aid to need
for more information visit the organization's website:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
