We met Vickie at this year’s Meaning Conference talking about Medecins sans Frontieres‘ guiding principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. 

MSF have a long history working in the most difficult circumstance and having to make difficult choices. Vickie talks about how these principles and medical ethics help with many of the difficult decisions she and the organisation need to make with limited resources and enormous needs.

Do they focus on preventive health, non-communicable needs, acute malnutirition, trauma? And what is their campaigning role, calling out the causes of these crises? How do they restore dignity and what does that mean?

Like us, MSF is also in Bangladesh and we talk about the dilemmas there: 

“At the moment, we’re focussed on ensuring that [...]