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unusual facts about Doctors without Borders



Google Crisis Response

During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, International Medical Corps and Doctors Without Borders used the Google Earth application to track response efforts and visualise cholera case origins.

HIV/AIDS in Burma

According to the report named "Preventable Fate", published by Doctors without Borders (also known as MSF), 25,000 Burmese AIDS patients died in 2007, deaths that could largely have been prevented by anti retorviral therapy (ART) drugs and proper treatment.

Jayne Brook

In the Fall 2008 season of Private Practice, Brook began a recurring role as a Doctor Without Borders physician and love interest of Dr. Pete Wilder (played by Tim Daly).

Paul Berman

Also, Berman tracks major figures like Bernard Kouchner — the later founder of Doctors Without Borders — a member of the 1968 Generation who would later marry active improvement of human rights to established political goals.

Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

As a response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Foundation started Non-Believers Giving Aid and claims it raised $500K to donate to Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross for relief aid.


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Marc Bangels

Then he worked for six years for Médecins Sans Frontières (E:Doctors Without Borders) as information technology manager and internal dynamics department director.

Médecins du Monde

Founded in 1980 by a group of 15 French doctors, including Bernard Kouchner after he had left Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders), the aid society which he had co-founded earlier in 1971.