{{Short description|American nonprofit organization}} {{Infobox organization | name = Homeopaths Without Borders | logo = Homeopaths_Without_Borders_logo.png | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = <!-- see [[WP:ALT]] --> | caption = | formation = {{start date and age|1996}} | founder = Nancy Kelly | founding_location = [[Hebron, New Hampshire]] | type = [[Nonprofit organization|Nonprofit]] | website = {{URL|www.hwbna.org}} }} '''Homeopaths Without Borders''' ('''HWB''') is a [[nonprofit organization]] based in [[Hebron, New Hampshire]], which was founded in 1996 by Nancy Kelly.<ref>{{cite web |title=Homeopaths Without Borders |url=https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/841343774 |website=Charity Navigator |access-date=6 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Our History |url=https://www.hwbna.org/our-history.html |website=Homeopaths Without Borders |access-date=6 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Modelled after [[Doctors Without Borders]], it sends practitioners to developing countries to administer the [[pseudoscience]] of [[homeopathy]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Swartout |first1=Kirsty A. |title=Encyclopedia of associations a guide to more than 23,000 national and international organizations ... |date=2006 |publisher=Thomson Gale |location=Farmington Hills, MI |isbn=978-0-7876-8286-6 |page=1727 |edition=44th}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Canada ends homeopathic foreign aid fund |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47489008 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 October 2020 |date=8 March 2019}}</ref> in an attempt to gain traction in countries where it does not already have a foothold.<ref name=Minn>{{cite web |last1=Perry |first1=Susan |title=Homeopaths are exploiting some of world's most vulnerable people, bioethicist charges |url=https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2013/09/homeopaths-are-exploiting-some-worlds-most-vulnerable-people-bioethicist-char/ |website=MinnPost |access-date=2 October 2020 |date=19 September 2013}}</ref> It has several different national associations, including Germany and North America.<ref name=bmj>{{cite journal |last1=Shaw |first1=D. M. |last2=Beetlestone |first2=J. G. |last3=Luzzatto |first3=L. |title=Homeopaths Without Borders practice exploitation not humanitarianism |journal=BMJ |date=17 September 2013 |volume=347 |article-number=f5448 |doi=10.1136/bmj.f5448|pmid=24046156 |s2cid=46042260 |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5448.short|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
HWB delivers homeopathic medicines which they claim help with treatment of [[malaria]], [[typhoid fever|typhoid]] and other potentially deadly diseases. Homeopathic medications have not been deemed effective in any of these conditions.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Perry |first1=Susan |title=Yet another meta-analysis finds homeopathy 'useless' |url=https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2014/04/yet-another-meta-analysis-finds-homeopathy-useless/ |website=MinnPost |access-date=2 October 2020 |date=14 April 2014}}</ref> They claim to have helped spread homeopathy to countries such as [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]], [[North Macedonia|Macedonia]], and [[Kenya]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Homeopaths Without Borders practice exploitation not humanitarianism |url=https://www.richarddawkins.net/2013/09/homeopaths-without-borders-practice-exploitation-not-humanitarianism/ |website=www.richarddawkins.net |access-date=2 October 2020 |date=September 18, 2013}}</ref> They sent homeopaths to distribute water, food and homeopathic treatments to [[Haiti]] after the [[2010 Haiti earthquake|2010 earthquake]].<ref name=Minn/><ref>{{cite web |last1=MacAskill |first1=William |title=What we can learn from one of the worst charities in the world |url=https://qz.com/84943/what-we-can-learn-from-one-of-the-worst-charities-in-the-world/ |website=Quartz |access-date=2 October 2020 |language=en |date=May 17, 2013}}</ref>
==Criticism== HWB has been largely criticized by the scientific community.<ref name=Minn/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ernst |first1=Edzard |title=Scam: So-Called Alternative Medicine. |date=2018 |publisher=Imprint Academic |location=Luton, Bedfordshire |isbn=978-1-84540-983-8}}</ref><ref name=bmj/>
In 2013 HWB were awarded [[Goldenes Brett|The Golden Blockhead]] award by the [[Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften|Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences]].
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==External links== * {{official|www.hwbna.org}}
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