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| - Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Sean Gleeson +852 2829 6249 Half a century ago, a group of young French doctors decided to direct their newly acquired medical skills towards helping victims of war, epidemics or natural disasters wherever in the world they were needed. It would lead to the creation in 1971 of Doctors Without Borders, a Nobel award winning organisation that has since cared and spoken up for victims of crises around the globe. We are offering the following items: + Doctors Without Borders: 50 years of emergency, revolt and dreams + In gang-ridden Haiti, Doctors Without Borders hospital vital for poor + The 'French Doctors' who came to the aid of Soviet-occupied Afghanistan Aid-conflict-MSF,FEATURE PARIS It grew out of the ideals of a group of newly qualified French doctors who wanted to be on the ground helping those most in need anywhere in the world. 1,600 words by Philippe Alfroy. File picture. Video by Greg Ozan. File video Aid-conflict-MSF-Haiti-health-poverty,FOCUS MARTISSANT, Haiti The cloud of dust in the air in front of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Haiti's capital is actually a good thing -- it shows that the gangs who normally rule over the area are not present, and so traffic is circulating. 650 words by Amelie Baron. Pictures by Valerie Baeriswyl. Video by Luckenson Jean Aid-conflict-MSF-Afghanistan-France,FOCUS PARIS With four tonnes of medicine and equipment in tow, a handful of French doctors and nurses secretly entered war-torn Afghanistan during its Soviet occupation to set up two field hospitals for Doctors Without Borders (MSF). 950 words by Philippe Alfroy. File pictures afp
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