Abstract
In conflicts, epidemics or health disasters, an NGO like Médecins Sans Frontières is not bound by the same commitments and does not always pursue the same goals as other global health players - states, transnational institutions, economic forces, local authorities or armed groups. Postulating that a humanitarian organization can only achieve its own objectives by establishing compromises between the interests it defends and those of the powers that be, this seminar proposes to discuss the acceptability of these compromises, based on concrete examples drawn from MSF's experience.
