Abstract
The presence and influence of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the landscape of global health and development have dramatically increased over the past several decades. Increasingly, Medical Practitioners in industrialized countries have become interested in global health issues, an interest that often takes the form of Short-Term international Medical Missions (STMMs). His article will aim to help Medical Practitioners to have a synthetic overview of the legal framework governing medical volunteering in STMMs and give them some recommendations. The idea of this article started from the need to have an overview of the legal framework governing medical volunteering missions organized by the Claros’s Foundation named "Foundation Clarós" (hereinafter also "FC"). To better understand who this article is addressed to, it is interesting to bring to your attention the concrete case from which this article was born. The following is a brief outline of what FC is all about. FC is a private, non-profit organization (NGO) whose aim is to provide medical care and alleviate the suffering of people in health and medical precarious situations.
Highlights
The presence and influence of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the landscape of global health and development have dramatically increased over the past several decades
Medical Practitioners in industrialized countries have become interested in global health issues, an interest that often takes the form of Short-Term international Medical Missions (STMMs)
His article will aim to help Medical Practitioners to have a synthetic overview of the legal framework governing medical volunteering in short-term medical missions (STMMs) and give them some recommendations
Summary
After the program started in 1992 in India, in the following years until 2021, many others humanitarian medical missions have been carried out in countries such as Cuba, Moldova, Romania, Jordan, Liberia, Ethiopia, Senegal, Cameroon, Gabon, Sudan, Kenya, Armenia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cape Verde, Gambia, Uzbekistan or Burundi, always under the proposal of collaboration of local hospitals and government agencies (up to a total of 115 missions today). In many of these countries, the missions have been repeated regularly every year. The reason for preparing articles on the prevalence of international law by medical NGOs has been his worrying thought
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