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Issue Statement: Doctors WIthout Borders MSF has been working in Haiti, a small country in the caribbean, since 1991, a time during which the country has been stricken with everything from streetfighting to devastating natural disasters, including the 2010 earthquake. Through it all, MSF teams have tended to patients, assisted in births, and provided access to medical care for hundreds of thousands of Haitians who otherwise would have gone and passed without any care. Among them have been countless people suffering from burn injuries, many of them linked to cramped living conditions. More than 300,000 displaced people, in fact, still live in temporary shelters where domestic accidents involving cooking stoves and boiling water are distressingly

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