Merlin (an acronym for '"Medical Emergency Relief, International"') is the only specialist UK charity which responds worldwide with vital health care and medical relief for vulnerable people caught up in natural disasters, conflict, disease and health system collapse. They are a mini British version of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), but focus more on project work. They are also strictly apolitical; an example of this is that in 1996/7, during the (successful) Taliban invasion of Afghanistan, Merlin worked on both sides of the frontier.
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Merlin's history
Responses to natural disasters
The Asian tsunami, the Bam earthquake, the Goma volcanic eruption
Responses to conflict
Iraq, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Palestine.
Responses to disease
Tuberculosis, Malaria, HIV/AIDS and common childhood diseases
Other responses
Health system collapse, as in the Former Soviet Union, Liberia and Afghanistan
