The British Medical Journal supports the BMJ MSF Appeal
Last year, the BMJ appeal raised £15,000 to support MSF's work overseas.
Private donations like these are so important, not only to fund our medical work, but also to ensure our neutrality and to guarantee access to those in the greatest need in places where, often, no-one else is willing or able to go.
To donate to the appeal, please click here. Your generosity helps us to continue our life-saving work around the world.
The photo below shows an MSF doctor examining a child at an MSF ward in the Mardan Medical Complex in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, where more than two million people have been displaced since fighting started (photo by Marta Ramoneda, June 2009). Her work there is one example of the massive variety of emergency medical work that thousands of MSF doctors, surgeons, anaesthetists and other medical staff have committed themselves to providing for MSF patients in more than 60 countries worldwide during 2009.
The photos below are taken from throughout the year and highlight some of the work that medical volunteers have done for MSF and for the people we care for. Thank you for making this possible.
To donate at any time, you can use the button in the right hand column or click on any of the photos on this page.
A burns victim is treated by MSF Somali medical staff in Jamaame hospital in southern Somalia. July 2009
Photo by Javier Roldan
An MSF doctor working in Congo (DRC) where there was an ebola outbreak at the beginning of the year. January 2009. Photo by Raphael Ottogalli/MSF
Dr Eamonn Vitt, an HIV specialist, examines a seven month pregnant HIV-positive patient in the Madi Opei Health Centre, Uganda. November 2009 Photo by Brendan Bannon
Hannady, 4, is treated for pieces of shrapnel in her arm and her leg in an MSF medical Unit in Gaza City. January 2009 Photo by Frederic Sautereau/Oeil Public
An MSF psychologist talks to an earthquake survivor close to Padang Alei, Indonesia. October 2009
Photo by Juan Carlos Tomasi/MSF
A medical consultation in Central Africa Republic where MSF opened feeding centres in response to a severe nutritional emergency. September 2009 Photo by Jaume Codina
An MSF doctor provides a consultation following MSF's project opening in the Philippines, working with populations displaced by the conflict on the island of Mindanao. January 2009
Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds
MSF set up a fully operational recovery room in the general hospital in Basra, where patients can be observed and monitored after surgery. April 2009 Photo by Khalil Sayyad/MSF