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Volume 351:2571-2573 December 16, 2004 Number 25
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Collateral Damage — Médecins sans Frontières Leaves Afghanistan and Iraq
Ingrid T. Katz, M.D., M.H.S., and Alexi A. Wright, M.D.

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On November 4, 2004, the Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian-aid organization Médecins sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors without Borders) announced that it was discontinuing operations in Iraq, owing to escalating violence against humanitarian-aid workers. This was MSF's second major departure from a war zone in four months. On July 28, the organization pulled out of Afghanistan after five of its workers were ambushed and murdered. The attack in Afghanistan was unprecedented for MSF, which has worked in some of the most dangerous war zones throughout the world for the past 33 years. The organization's decision to leave both countries was a dramatic . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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