Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), translated as Doctors without Borders, provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Teams are composed of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic, and administrative staff bound together by the charter. Actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence, and neutrality. MSF, a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organization, was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, it is a worldwide movement of nearly 68,000 people.