Noelle Jouane, a mental health programme manager at the Bekaa unit of Medecins du Monde, which provides medical care, attends an interview with Reuters in Beirut, Lebanon July 23, 2021. Picture taken July 23, 2021. REUTERS/Emilie Madi 

Members of Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) hang a banner with the message, "Voting Booth for the voiceless" in a call for the reduction in inequality and acces to healthcare for the poor in Lyon, France, May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Robert Pratta 

Members of Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) stand near a poster which reads "Liberty, Equality, Health" in a call for the reduction in inequality and acces to healthcare for the poor in Lyon, France, May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Robert Pratta 

Members of Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) hang a banner with the message, "Voting Booth for the voiceless" in a call for the reduction in inequality and acces to healthcare for the poor in Lyon, France, May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Robert Pratta 

Members of Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) hang a banner with the message, "Voting Booth for the voiceless" in a call for the reduction in inequality and acces to healthcare for the poor in Lyon, France, May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Robert Pratta 

A migrant (L) receives a medical consultation at a field dispensary set up by the French doctors group Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) at a makeshift tent city located in a field in Calais, France, July 2, 2015. France and Britain agreed on Thursday to step up efforts to discourage migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to stow away on vehicles crossing the Channel between the two countries. Calais is one of the front lines in a wider immigration crisis in which European countries are struggling to agree among themselves how to deal with growing numbers of migrants fleeing conflict or poverty. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler 

A migrant receives a medical consultation at a field dispensary set up by the French doctors group Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) at a makeshift tent city located in a field in Calais, France, July 2, 2015. France and Britain agreed on Thursday to step up efforts to discourage migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to stow away on vehicles crossing the Channel between the two countries. Calais is one of the front lines in a wider immigration crisis in which European countries are struggling to agree among themselves how to deal with growing numbers of migrants fleeing conflict or poverty. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler 

A migrant receives a medical consultation at a field dispensary set up by the French doctors group Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) at a makeshift tent city located in a field in Calais, France, July 2, 2015. France and Britain agreed on Thursday to step up efforts to discourage migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to stow away on vehicles crossing the Channel between the two countries. Calais is one of the front lines in a wider immigration crisis in which European countries are struggling to agree among themselves how to deal with growing numbers of migrants fleeing conflict or poverty. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler 

A migrant (L) has his temperature checked by a male nurse at a field dispensary set up by the French doctors group Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) at a makeshift tent city located in a field in Calais, France, July 2, 2015. France and Britain agreed on Thursday to step up efforts to discourage migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to stow away on vehicles crossing the Channel between the two countries. Calais is one of the front lines in a wider immigration crisis in which European countries are struggling to agree among themselves how to deal with growing numbers of migrants fleeing conflict or poverty. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler 

A migrant receives a medical consultation at a field dispensary set up by the French doctors group Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) at a makeshift tent city located in a field in Calais, France, July 2, 2015. France and Britain agreed on Thursday to step up efforts to discourage migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to stow away on vehicles crossing the Channel between the two countries. Calais is one of the front lines in a wider immigration crisis in which European countries are struggling to agree among themselves how to deal with growing numbers of migrants fleeing conflict or poverty. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler 

A woman lights a candle to place it on a Christmas tree which is made of milk tin cans in Athens December 14, 2012. For a second year, Athenians donated milk to the "Medecins Du Monde" non-governmental organisation which will then distribute them to the poor. REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY HEALTH) 

Volunteers place candles on a Christmas tree which is made of milk tin cans in Athens December 14, 2012. For a second year, Athenians donated milk to the "Medecins Du Monde" non-governmental organisation which will then distribute them to the poor. REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY HEALTH) 

A couple looks at a Christmas tree made of milk tin cans in Athens December 14, 2012. For a second year, Athenians donated milk to the "Medecins Du Monde" non-governmental organisation which will then distribute them to the poor. REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY HEALTH) 

Volunteers stack milk tin cans to form a Christmas tree in Athens December 20, 2011. The milk tin cans were donated to the "Medecins Du Monde" non-governmental organisation by the public who will then distribute them to the poor. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Volunteers stack milk tin cans to form a Christmas tree in Athens December 20, 2011. The milk tin cans were donated to the "Medecins Du Monde" non-governmental organisation by the public, who will then distribute them to the poor. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Volunteers make a Christmas tree with milk tin cans donated to the "Medecins Du Monde" non-governmental organisation, which will distribute them to the poor in Athens December 20, 2011. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A volunteer lights a candle to put on a Christmas tree made with milk tin cans donated to the "Medecins Du Monde" non-governmental organisation, which will distribute them to the poor in Athens December 20, 2011. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Volunteers stack milk tin cans to form a Christmas tree in Athens December 20, 2011. The milk tin cans were donated to the "Medecins Du Monde" non-governmental organisation by the public which will then distribute to the poor. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A doctor from French group Medecins du Monde or Doctors of the World, a non-governmental humanitarian aid organisation that makes weekly visits, examines a child at an illegal camp of Roma in Indre, near Nantes, western France, August 5, 2010. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered the dismantling of 300 illegal camps of travelling people and Roma across France, as part of a "war" on crime and urban violence which has alarmed some rights groups. Some 10,000 Roma were expelled from France last year alone. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) 

A volunteer from French group Medecins du Monde or Doctors of the World, a non-governmental humanitarian aid organisation, speaks with a family during their weekly visit, where they also provide health services, to an illegal camp of Roma in Indre, near Nantes, western France, August 5, 2010. President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered the dismantling of 300 illegal camps of travelling people and Roma across France, as part of a "war" on crime and urban violence which has alarmed some rights groups. Some 10,000 Roma were expelled from France last year alone. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) 

Women and children wait to receive health services outside a truck of French group Medecins du Monde or Doctors of the World, a non-governmental humanitarian aid organisation that makes weekly visits, inside an illegal camp of Roma in Indre, near Nantes, western France, August 5, 2010. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered the dismantling of 300 illegal camps of travelling people and Roma across France, as part of a "war" on crime and urban violence which has alarmed some rights groups. Some 10,000 Roma were expelled from France last year alone. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) 

Wilhem Sools, a volunteer with Medecins du Monde that was released in Somalia on Wednesday January 7, 2009 after 108 days of captivity, attends a news conference in Paris January 10, 2009. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE) 

Keiko Akahane (R) and Wilhem Sools, volunteers with Medecins du Monde that were released in Somalia on Wednesday January 7, 2009 after 108 days of captivity, attend a news conference in Paris January 10, 2009. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE) 

Keiko Akahane (R) and Wilhem Sools, volunteers with Medecins du Monde that were released in Somalia on Wednesday January 7, 2009 after 108 days of captivity, pose after a news conference in Paris January 10, 2009. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE) 

Keiko Akahane (R) and Wilhem Sools, volunteers with Medecins du Monde that were released in Somalia on Wednesday January 7, 2009 after 108 days of captivity, pose after a news conference in Paris January 10, 2009. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE) 

Aid worker Keiko Akahane of Japan, a volunteer with Medecins du Monde who was released on Wednesday after being kidnapped last year, speaks during a news conference in Paris January 10, 2009. Akahane and Willem Sools of the Netherlands were kidnapped by Somali gunmen in September 2008 from Ethiopia's remote eastern Ogaden region, which borders war-torn Somalia. Both were released on Wednesday.
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Pierre Micheletti (R), president of Medecins du Monde, attends a news conference with released aid workers Keiko Akahane (C) of Japan and Wilhem Sools (L) of the Netherlands in Paris January 10, 2009. Akahane and Sools were released on Wednesday after they were kidnapped by Somali gunmen on the Ethiopian border last year. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE) 

France's Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner speaks with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy's Foreign Policy Advisor Jean-David Levitte following a meeting with British actress and singer Jane Birkin, and members of several non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

France's Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner (C) speaks to journalists following a meeting with British actress and singer Jane Birkin and members of several non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

British actress and singer Jane Birkin (C) leaves the Elysee Palace following a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and members of several non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

British actress and singer Jane Birkin (2nd R) leaves the Elysee Palace following a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and members of several non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

British actress and singer Jane Birkin stands near her bag in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace following a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and members of various non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

British actress and singer Jane Birkin prepares to leave the Elysee Palace following a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and members of various non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

British actress and singer Jane Birkin holds her bag with the flag of Tibet as she leaves the Elysee Palace following a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and members of various non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

British actress and singer Jane Birkin prepares to leave the Elysee Palace following a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and members of various non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

British actress and singer Jane Birkin puts papers in her bag in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace following a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and members of various non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

British actress and singer Jane Birkin holds her bag with the flag of Tibet as she leaves the Elysee Palace following a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and members of various non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

British actress and singer Jane Birkin holds her bag with the flag of Tibet as she leaves the Elysee Palace following a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and members of various non-governmental organisations including the Croix Rouge and Medecins du Monde, to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 9, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE) 

A homeless man sits inside a tent in front of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris January 25, 2006. French NGO "Medecins Du Monde" distributed camping tents to homeless people to protest against the lack of emergency lodging for the homeless, as cold weather conditions prevailed in France. 

Homeless persons sit in front of a tent on a sidewalk in front of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris January 25, 2006. French NGO "Medecins Du Monde" distributed camping tents to homeless people to protest against the lack of emergency lodging for the homeless, as cold weather conditions prevailed in France. 

A man walks past the tents provided to homeless persons on a sidewalk near the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris January 25, 2006. French NGO "Medecins Du Monde" distributed camping tents to homeless people to protest against the lack of emergency lodging for the homeless, as cold weather conditions prevailed in France. 

A man walks past the tents provided to homeless persons on a sidewalk near the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris January 25, 2006. French NGO "Medecins Du Monde" distributed camping tents to homeless people to protest against the lack of emergency lodging for the homeless, as cold weather conditions prevailed in France. REUTERS/Franck Prevel 

A homeless man leaves his tent in front of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris January 25, 2006. French NGO "Medecins Du Monde" distributed camping tents to homeless people to protest against the lack of emergency lodging for the homeless, as cold weather conditions prevailed in France. REUTERS/Franck Prevel 

A homeless man sits inside a tent in front of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris January 25, 2006. French NGO "Medecins Du Monde" distributed camping tents to homeless people to protest against the lack of emergency lodging for the homeless, as cold weather conditions prevailed in France. REUTERS/Franck Prevel 

Homeless persons sit in front of a tent on a sidewalk in front of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris January 25, 2006. French NGO "Medecins Du Monde" distributed camping tents to homeless people to protest against the lack of emergency lodging for the homeless, as cold weather conditions prevailed in France. REUTERS/Franck Prevel 

A woman walks past the tent of a homeless person on a sidewalk in central Paris December 30, 2005. French NGO "Medecins Du Monde" distributed camping tents to homeless people to protest against the lack of emergency lodging for the homeless, as cold weather conditions prevailed in France since the beginning of the week with snowfall and icy conditions in many parts of the country. 

A woman walks past the tent of a homeless person on a sidewalk in central Paris December 30, 2005. French NGO "Medecins Du Monde" distributed camping tents to homeless people to protest against the lack of emergency lodging for the homeless, as cold weather conditions prevailed in France since the beginning of the week with snowfall and icy conditions in many parts of the country. REUTERS/Franck Prevel 

Clowns Yoram Allon (R) and Nick Putz of England perform at Sputnik refugee camp in Ingushetia, July 27, 2000. The clowns were invited by the French organisation Medecins du Monde and made shows for children in refugee camps and hospitals. Russian troops were reported to be trying to flush out Chechen rebels in the high southern mountains under the cover of artillery and air attacks on Saturday while the rebels denied they were holding peace talks. 

Clowns Nick Putz (C) of England and John Patrick of Ireland perform at Sputnik refugee camp in Ingushetia, July 27, 2000. The clowns were invited by the French organisation Medecins du Monde and made shows for children in refugee camps and hospitals. Russian troops were reported to be trying to flush out Chechen rebels in the high southern mountains under the cover of artillery and air attacks on Saturday while the rebels denied they were holding peace talks. 

Clowns Nick Putz (C) of England and John Patrick of Ireland perform at Sputnik refugee camp in Ingushetia, July 27, 2000. The clowns were invited by the French organisation Medecins du Monde and made shows for children in refugee camps and hospitals. Russian troops were reported to be trying to flush out Chechen rebels in the high southern mountains under the cover of artillery and air attacks on Saturday while the rebels denied they were holding peace talks.

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Clowns Yoram Allon (R) and Nick Putz of England perform at Sputnik refugee camp in Ingushetia, July 27, 2000. The clowns were invited by the French organisation Medecins du Monde and made shows for children in refugee camps and hospitals. Russian troops were reported to be trying to flush out Chechen rebels in the high southern mountains under the cover of artillery and air attacks on Saturday while the rebels denied they were holding peace talks.

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Athenian youths of the Greek delegation of the humanitarian organisation "Medecins Du Monde" collect food and clothing for Kosovo refugees at the Syntagma square in Athens April 16. Greece said a senior ministry official was meeting Yugoslav counterparts in Belgrade to discuss providing aid to thousands of refugees who have fled to the countryside fom towns and villages in Kosovo.

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An Athenian woman and a member of the Greek delegation of the humanitarian organisation "Medecins Du Monde" collect food and clothing for Kosovo refugees at the Syntagma square in Athens April 16. Greece said a senior ministry official was meeting Yugoslav counterparts in Belgrade to discuss providing aid to thousands of refugees who have fled to the countryside from towns and villages in Kosovo.

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FOR RELEASE WITH FEATURE BC-GREECE-GYPSIES - A nurse with Medecins Du Monde washes the head of a gypsy child before treating her for a skin infection at a gypsy camp near the main Athens waste dump at Aspropirgos. Official estimates put Greek gypsies at 120,000 but they say their number is over 300,000. Some live in permanent shantytowns near big cities but most remain mobile. Picture taken 2OCT98.

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FOR RELEASE WITH FEATURE BC-GREECE-GYPSIES - A nurse volunteer with Medecins Du Monde washes the head of a gypsy child before treating her for a skin infection at a gypsy camp near the main Athens waste dump at Aspropirgos. Official estimates put Greek gypsies at 120,000 but they say their number is over 300,000, both Christian and Moslem and most speaking versions of Romani language. Some live in permanent shantytowns near big cities but most remain mobile. Picture taken 2OCT98.

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