Are you referring to the staff of Doctors Without Borders themselves? It's probably worth emphasizing that the makeup of our staff around the world is almost entirely people who live in and are from the countries in which we operate. They do almost the entirety of the work that we do. They are also frequently affected by the same crises and the same conflicts to which we are responding. Many of our colleagues do find themselves displaced, depending on the situation, and are forced to make those accommodations. However, they continue providing emergency medical and humanitarian care where it's needed.
To emphasize only those staff members and people who are providing that care...it is a much larger context than that. It is the entirety of the people who are affected that we need to keep in mind here.
In all of these situations, we are finding the same thing. We are finding that the capacity to respond to the needs that exist of people specifically who have been displaced.... As I said in my introductory remarks, people find themselves in exceedingly difficult situations with few options for getting out of them. They become almost entirely dependent on humanitarian assistance and aid. In view of the fact that so much of that assistance is now under threat—it has been reduced by funding cuts—the challenge, which was already exceedingly high, is now even more difficult.
