Homeopaths Without Borders

Homeopaths Without Borders (HWB) is a nonprofit organization based in Hebron, New Hampshire, which was founded in 1996 by Nancy Kelly.[1][2] Modelled after Doctors Without Borders, it sends practitioners to developing countries to administer the pseudoscience 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]

Homeopaths Without Borders
Formation1996 (1996)
FounderNancy Kelly
Founded atHebron, New Hampshire
TypeNonprofit
Websitewww.hwbna.org

HWB delivers homeopathic medicines which they claim help with treatment of malaria, typhoid 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, Macedonia, and Kenya.[8] They sent homeopaths to distribute water, food and homeopathic treatments to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.[5][9]

Criticism

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

In 2013 HWB were awarded The Golden Blockhead award by the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences.

References
  1. "Homeopaths Without Borders". Charity Navigator. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. "Our History". HOMEOPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  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 9780787682866.
  4. "Canada ends homeopathic foreign aid fund". BBC News. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  5. Perry, Susan (19 September 2013). "Homeopaths are exploiting some of world's most vulnerable people, bioethicist charges". MinnPost. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  6. Shaw, D. M.; Beetlestone, J. G.; Luzzatto, L. (17 September 2013). "Homeopaths Without Borders practice exploitation not humanitarianism". BMJ. 347: f5448–f5448. doi:10.1136/bmj.f5448.
  7. Perry, Susan (14 April 2014). "Yet another meta-analysis finds homeopathy 'useless'". MinnPost. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  8. "Homeopaths Without Borders practice exploitation not humanitarianism | Richard Dawkins Foundation". www.richarddawkins.net. September 18, 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  9. MacAskill, William (May 17, 2013). "What we can learn from one of the worst charities in the world". Quartz. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  10. Ernst, Edzard (2018). Scam: So-Called Alternative Medicine. Luton, Bedfordshire: Imprint Academic. ISBN 9781845409838.
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