# Homeopaths Without Borders

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American nonprofit organization

Homeopaths Without Borders Formation 1996; 30 years ago (1996) Founder Nancy Kelly Founded at Hebron, New Hampshire Type Nonprofit Website www.hwbna.org

**Homeopaths Without Borders** (**HWB**) is a [nonprofit organization](/source/Nonprofit_organization) based in [Hebron, New Hampshire](/source/Hebron%2C_New_Hampshire), which was founded in 1996 by Nancy Kelly.[1][2] Modelled after [Doctors Without Borders](/source/Doctors_Without_Borders), it sends practitioners to developing countries to administer the [pseudoscience](/source/Pseudoscience) of [homeopathy](/source/Homeopathy),[3][4] in an attempt to gain traction in countries where it does not already have a foothold.[5] It has several different national associations, including Germany and North America.[6]

HWB delivers homeopathic medicines which they claim help with treatment of [malaria](/source/Malaria), [typhoid](/source/Typhoid_fever) and other potentially deadly diseases. Homeopathic medications have not been deemed effective in any of these conditions.[7] They claim to have helped spread homeopathy to countries such as [Bosnia-Herzegovina](/source/Bosnia-Herzegovina), [Macedonia](/source/North_Macedonia), and [Kenya](/source/Kenya).[8] They sent homeopaths to distribute water, food and homeopathic treatments to [Haiti](/source/Haiti) after the [2010 earthquake](/source/2010_Haiti_earthquake).[5][9]

## Criticism

HWB has been largely criticized by the scientific community.[5][10][6]

In 2013 HWB were awarded [The Golden Blockhead](/source/Goldenes_Brett) award by the [Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences](/source/Gesellschaft_zur_wissenschaftlichen_Untersuchung_von_Parawissenschaften).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Homeopaths Without Borders"](https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/841343774). *Charity Navigator*. Retrieved 6 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Our History"](https://www.hwbna.org/our-history.html). *Homeopaths Without Borders*. Retrieved 6 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Swartout, Kirsty A. (2006). *Encyclopedia of associations a guide to more than 23,000 national and international organizations ...* (44th ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale. p. 1727. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-7876-8286-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7876-8286-6).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Canada ends homeopathic foreign aid fund"](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47489008). *BBC News*. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2020.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Minn_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Minn_5-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Minn_5-2) Perry, Susan (19 September 2013). ["Homeopaths are exploiting some of world's most vulnerable people, bioethicist charges"](https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2013/09/homeopaths-are-exploiting-some-worlds-most-vulnerable-people-bioethicist-char/). *MinnPost*. Retrieved 2 October 2020.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-bmj_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-bmj_6-1) Shaw, D. M.; Beetlestone, J. G.; Luzzatto, L. (17 September 2013). ["Homeopaths Without Borders practice exploitation not humanitarianism"](https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5448.short). *BMJ*. **347** f5448. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1136/bmj.f5448](https://doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmj.f5448). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [24046156](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24046156). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [46042260](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:46042260).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Perry, Susan (14 April 2014). ["Yet another meta-analysis finds homeopathy 'useless'"](https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2014/04/yet-another-meta-analysis-finds-homeopathy-useless/). *MinnPost*. Retrieved 2 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Homeopaths Without Borders practice exploitation not humanitarianism"](https://www.richarddawkins.net/2013/09/homeopaths-without-borders-practice-exploitation-not-humanitarianism/). *www.richarddawkins.net*. September 18, 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** MacAskill, William (May 17, 2013). ["What we can learn from one of the worst charities in the world"](https://qz.com/84943/what-we-can-learn-from-one-of-the-worst-charities-in-the-world/). *Quartz*. Retrieved 2 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Ernst, Edzard (2018). *Scam: So-Called Alternative Medicine*. Luton, Bedfordshire: Imprint Academic. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-84540-983-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84540-983-8).

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.hwbna.org)

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