Following medical school , Orbinski held a Medical Research Council of Canada fellowship to study pediatric HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa . In 1991 , he began working internationally with Médecins Sans Frontières ( MSF ) . After his first mission in Peru , Orbinski served as MSF ’s Medical Coordinator in Baidoa during the Somali Civil War and famine of 1992-93 , and in Jalalabad , Afghanistan during the winter of 1994 . He was subsequently MSF ’s Head of Mission in Kigali during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 , and in Goma , Zaire during the refugee crisis in 1996-97
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
James Orbinski