Activists: Burma’s Foreign Aid Group Ban Puts Thousands at Risk

In western Burma’s Rakhine state, authorities asked international aid group Doctors Without Borders (known by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) to cease operations after accusations of aid bias. Activists say the ban will leave nearly 700,000 people without access to much needed medical care in the country's second-most impoverished region.   HIV-positive Ba Sein is also suffering from tuberculosis. He is living in close quarters with his wife and two children in a...

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