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Doctors Without Borders - Efforts in the Central African Republic

Homeopathic practitioner Karolina Dziunikowska cares for patients of all ages in Toronto, Canada. In addition to her work treating patients with natural homeopathic remedies, Karolina Dziunikowska supports Doctors Without Borders. Responding to humanitarian and medical crises throughout the world, Doctors Without Borders , an international nonprofit organization, focuses on controlling disease outbreaks and malnutrition in regions where access to health care is limited. Doctors Without Borders is currently focusing efforts on the Central African Republic, where political conflict brought widespread violence in 2013. These conditions have prevented many people from accessing health care.  More than 70 percent of area health facilities have been damaged or destroyed, and both medical personnel and supplies are scarce. Efforts in the region are centered on maternal care, malaria, HIV, and malnutrition. Doctors Without Borders operates 17 facilities across the Central African Republ...

Doctors Without Borders Fights Malnutrition in Nigeria

  In Toronto, Canada, homeopathic practitioner Karolina Dziunikowska helps her patients feel better naturally. As a healer and humanitarian, Karolina Dziunikowska also supports Doctors Without Borders and the group’s international efforts to save lives. Since the summer of 2016, Doctors Without Borders has ramped up efforts to aid Nigerian people living in the state of Borno. As it stands, more than half a million people have been displaced by violence stemming from conflicts with the terrorist group Boko Haram. These individuals have lost their homes and now live in government-controlled towns and encampments. For many, outside aid is the only available source of food. This has resulted in malnutrition and related illnesses on a large scale, and local hospitals are over filled. Doctors Without Borders provides help through a two-pronged attack on malnutrition. Volunteer physicians are working hard to treat patients at new clinics and a nutrition center. Meanwhile,...