July 11, 2010

Medical Charity’s Name Spawns Many Imitations

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Médecins Sans Frontières

Doctors Without Borders works in disaster and conflict zones

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Médecins Sans Frontières

Doctors Without Borders works in disaster and conflict zones

By Brennen Jensen

To aid people devastated by civil war, genocide, and poverty, members of the humanitarian aid group Socialites Without Borders taught destitute Rwandans how to mingle.

So goes the joke opening to an article that appeared last summer in The Onion, the satirical news publication.

But to the international medical relief organization Doctors Without Borders, the ever-growing list of charities using “without borders” in their name is no laughing