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6 unusual facts about MSF


Bernard Pécoul

He joined MSF in 1983, and spent the next few years providing health services to refugees in Latin America.

Prior to his involvement with the DNDi, Dr. Pécoul was executive director for MSF’s campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, executive director of MSF-France, co-founder of the centre for epidemiological research Epicentre, and a MSF field physician in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

East Bardera Mothers and Children's Hospital

UN agencies such as WHO, UNICEF and other international NGOs such MSF have supported the health-care services which are carried out in Bardera District.

HIV/AIDS in Burma

According to the report named "Preventable Fate", published by Doctors without Borders (also known as MSF), 25,000 Burmese AIDS patients died in 2007, deaths that could largely have been prevented by anti retorviral therapy (ART) drugs and proper treatment.

Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response

Care International and Médecins sans frontières (MSF) were added in 1997 and the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1999.

Time transfer

Examples of a one-way time transfer system are the clock on a church or town building and the ringing of their time-indication bells; time balls, radio clock signals such as LORAN, DCF77 and MSF; and finally the Global Positioning System which uses multiple one-way time transfers from different satellites, with positional information and other advanced means of delay compensations to allow receiver compensation of time and position information in real time.


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Badr Airlines

Today, Badr Airlines operates flights on behalf of UN MovCon, WFP, UNICEF, UNOPS, ESS, MSF, FAO and IRC, using aircraft and helicopters covering most areas of Sudan.

Bernard Pécoul

In 1998, he was named executive director of MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines.

Casio Wave Ceptor

CASIO mentions that in Europe, the watches will tune to the low frequency time signal radio station DCF77 located at Mainflingen in Germany or MSF at Anthorn (formerly transmitting from Rugby, Warwickshire) in the United Kingdom.

Clustal

This program accepts a wide range of input formats, including NBRF/PIR, FASTA, EMBL/Swiss-Prot, Clustal, GCC/MSF, GCG9 RSF, and GDE.

Jill Seaman

The MSF clinic in Duar, Unity State was destroyed by militia in June 1998 as part of a drive to clear the region of people so the Block 5A oil concession could be developed.

Major Street-basketball Foundation

MSF has initiated one of Australia's most recognised 3-on-3 basketball tournaments at the Royal Melbourne Show and Moomba Waterfest, two of Australia's largest community festivals.

Marilyn McHarg

Prior to her work with MSF, McHarg was a registered nurse at Women's College Hospital and Sunnybrook Medical Centre in Toronto and a research assistant and laboratory technologist at St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario and research assistant at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Médecins du Monde

Founded in 1980 by a group of 15 French doctors, including Bernard Kouchner after he had left Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders), the aid society which he had co-founded earlier in 1971.

Motorcycle Safety Foundation

The Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) is a United States national, not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, and sponsored by the U.S. manufacturers and distributors of BMW, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, KTM, Piaggio/Vespa, Suzuki, Triumph, Victory and Yamaha motorcycles.

Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay

A state-of-the-art Magnetic Silencing Facility (MSF) provides degaussing services, including ranging and the removal of permanent magnetism for submarines of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy, as well as for steel-hulled surface warships.

Subud

In addition to the above affiliates, a foundation – the Muhammad Subuh Foundation (MSF) – has been set up, whose main work is helping groups acquire their own latihan premises.

Syed Sajjad Ali Shah

Hundreds of Pakistan Muslim League supporters and members of its youth wing, the Muslim Students Front (MSF), breached the police cordon around the courthouse when defence lawyer S.M. Zafar was arguing his case.

University of Malaya Department of Social and Preventive Medicine

They now serve with distinction in the Ministry of Health, universities and various National and International bodies (e.g. Malaysian Armed Forces, WHO (World Health Organization), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and in town and city councils) in Malaysia and around the world.


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