Doctors Without Borders is an organization
also known as Medecins Sans Frontiers that provides medical aid to nearly
seventy countries, including thirty-three in Africa. When armed
conflict, malnutrition, epidemic and natural disasters overwhelm
local medical services Doctors Without Borders steps in. DWB was originally founded
in 1971 in France, and since then DWB has had a long history treating
Meningitis, Measles, Cholera, and Malaria. More recently however, DWB has
become significant in treating HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Sleeping Sickness, Chagas, Kala Azar. Back in 1999 DWB won the Nobel Peace Prize for their actions. On a more negative standpoint, despite the good they do everywhere, DWB is banned from Ethiopia [for making "false" accusations about the government] and pulled out of Tanzania because refugee camps because the camps were run by Hutus-of the same ethnicity that caused the genocide in Rwanda. This last tidbit I question, for DWB is supposed to ignore racial and ethnic boundaries, but, I ask you do they really here?
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I'm not really sure if they have. The only time that really show that they didn't though is when Ethiopia banned them, but that might be different. Besides that I think they have mostly. I think it's interesting that though Doctors Without Borders is mainly in Africa it's also in different places such as areas in Asia and South America. It also says on the Doctors Without Borders website that "On any given day more than 22,000 medical workers can be found providing care throughout the world". That is awesome that there are so many people working with Doctors Without Borders helping provide medical care. It's interesting how they started because they said that this was created by Doctors and Journalists in France. Now the part about the Doctors don't surprise me, but I'm not sure about the Journalists. Why would they need them? Maybe they came up with the idea. I don't know. What do you think?
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