Médecins Sans Frontières is awarded the inaugural LUI Che Woo Prize 2016 in the Welfare Betterment category, with the specific area of focus of “Treatment and/or Control of Epidemics, Infectious Diseases or Chronic Illnesses”, for its indispensable contributions to the treatment and control of the cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010 and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014. The work of MSF has thus resulted in a significant betterment of the welfare of mankind.