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It was only the single-minded and often heroic intervention of the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) that prevented Sudan's epidemic of kala-azar from turning into a modern-day version of the black death, which ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. MSF, founded by...
About the time the epidemic was beginning to spread, Khartoum banned relief flights into the south, and most international organizations, including the U.N., stayed out. Medecins Sans Frontieres refused to go along. In the summer of 1988, with a team already in Khartoum, MSF clandestinely sent a second one into...
Some of the kids' short, traumatized biographies supported an underlying premise-a motif that the older speakers elaborated upon a bit too automatically. Bernard Kouchner, the French doctor who co-founded Madecins Sans Frontieres and Madecins du Monde, stated the theme when he spoke about Bosnia: Today there are 37...
For a while last week it looked as though the outbreak might soon be brought under control. The plague police-medical teams dispatched by who in Geneva, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc) in Atlanta and other public health groups-had set up an effective isolation ward at...
"Normally," explains Dr. Alain Destexhe, the secretary-general of Medecins Sans Frontieres, "refugees are people who are persecuted. But here we are dealing with people responsible for genocide. We should recognize that, and we should not be strengthening these leaders."