We provided holistic care to survivors of sexual violence, treating the physical damage done as well as the invisible wounds. We provided medical and mental health care to people uprooted by conflict and vulnerable to disease and despair in refugee camps. These astonishing figures are all the more impressive in the context of the challenges we face in some of our biggest projects: from a war zone in Yemen, to the site of an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to the world s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams provided more than 11,218,700 outpatient consultations and treated over 758,200 inpatients around the world last year. Juan Carlos Tomasi/MSF Dear Friends, As we reflect on the tumultuous events of 2018, it is sometimes hard to believe what our teams managed to accomplish in the face of countless obstacles to delivering lifesaving medical humanitarian aid. People tell us, it s good that you haven t forgotten us, says MSF psychologist Ivana Cervín Marín. MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize in LETTER FROM MSF 4 : YEAR IN REVIEW BY THE NUMBERS 20 ACTIVITIES 22 PROJECT SUPPORT 28 STAFF RECRUITMENT 30 DONORS 66 FINANCIAL REPORT 68 BOARD OF DIRECTORS/BOARD OF ADVISORSģ A patient receives care at a mobile clinic in Mexico s Guerrero state, where communities are affected by extreme violence related to the drug trade. We are doctors, nurses, logistics experts, administrators, epidemiologists, laboratory technicians, mental health professionals, and many others who work in accordance with MSF s guiding principles of humanitarian action and medical ethics. We ran medical projects in 72 countries in On any given day, thousands of individuals representing dozens of nationalities are working together to provide assistance to people caught in crises around the world. More than 60,000 refugees arrived in Sebagoro, a lakeside fishing village, between December 2017 and March Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters, and exclusion from health care.
2 People fleeing communal violence in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, cross Lake Albert by boat to reach safety in Uganda.
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