I am a final year medical student, beginning work as a medical doctor in August 2016. I am fundraising for Médecins Sans Frontières to support their lifesaving work. 

By donating today, here's examples of what your kindness will be used for:

Giving £3 - provides pain relief, paying for over 300 Ibuprofen tablets.

Giving £10 – protects 21 children against measles, a highly infectious disease that can be deadly in children

Giving £20 – protects 62 people against hepatitis B, a viral infectious disease that damages the liver

Giving  £30 – helps prevent the spread of infection by providing sterile surgical linen

Giving £45 – sends a doctor to a crisis zone for a full day

Giving £73 – treats up to 130 people with malaria, a mosquito borne infectious disease that can be fatal if untreated

Giving £95 – treats provides one person living with HIV/AIDS with lifesaving medicines for one year

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stand out because they have been delivering independent, impartial medical care to people in need since 1971. They provide high quality medical care to people caught in crisis, regardless of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

In doing this, they:

• Run short term health programmes in response to armed conflicts, epidemics, famines and natural disasters

• It also runs longer term health programmes, targeted at ongoing health crises

• MSF doctors treat a diverse range of problems, including malaria, HIV, mental health and cholera

There are many things about MSF that make them special, too many to speak about here (if you're interested in that, I'll be talking about it on my blog https://www.davidontheinter.net/blog/) but giving to MSF today will provide medical care, something we take as a right in the UK to people who need it most.