Doctors Without Borders

Engaging with National Authorities: Médecins Sans Frontières’s experience in Guinea during the Ebola epidemic

The Ebola epidemic continues to be instructive. This was indeed the conclusion of the “Focus” on this subject in our inaugural issue: the magnitude of this unprecedented crisis, its failures...

Marc Poncin

MSF in Grande-Synthe: lessons from an unlikely coalition of actors

Vivid symbol of the migratory crisis, the situation of refugee camps in the north of France gives way to many erroneous representations. Angélique Muller and Michaël Neuman bring forward in...

Angélique Muller - Michaël Neuman

Tough choices: moral challenges experienced by aid workers during the Covid-19 pandemic

The truly unprecedented nature of the Covid-19 pandemic has mobilised and confused humanitarian NGOs and their staff as much. Forced inaction mixed with setting up programmes within a context of...

Françoise Duroch - Miriam Kasztura

Integration, inclusion, induction: how Médecins Sans Frontières welcomes new generations

As an organisation with a strong history and an iconic image, Médecins Sans Frontières has thought about the integration of new generations coming on board. Taking a practical, trial-and-error approach,...

Cécile Pétriat - Stefano Manfredi - William Empson

Médecins Sans Frontières-France: tensions arising from the “Migration” projects

Can Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) be first responder, advisor and activist, all at the same time? While the organisation has never seemed to be on the front line with regards...

Michaël Neuman

Médecins Sans Frontières in Borno State, Nigeria: a critical look at our operations

Published on December 15, 2019 In 2016, the Operations Department commissioned a critical review of the operations carried out between 2015 and 2016 in Borno State by Médecins Sans Frontières...

Isabelle Defourny

Should Médecins Sans Frontières join the fight against global warming?

Our issue on climate change has clearly fuelled the debate within the Médecins Sans Frontières movement. Following an article co-written by members of the Swiss and Canadian sections, Fabrice Weissman presents a...

Fabrice Weissman

Interview with Pierre-Alain Gourion: U-Man, a new humanitarian radio programme.

Pierre-Alain Gourion is the founder of Bubble Art, a Lyon-based multi-cultural association that has launched “U-Man” a radio and video programme on humanitarian action that intends to become a sounding board....

About the possibility of controlling an HIV epidemic hotspot

Designed to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in a Kenyan district, a Médecins Sans Frontières project successfully exceeded the “90-90-90” target set by UNAIDS. A look back on the results...

Elba Rahmouni - Léon Salumu Luzinga - Pierre Mendiharat

Management of the suffering child: a medical and operational challenge

Elba Rahmouni and Olivier Guillard • Médecins Sans Frontières This article presents a troubling example of the effects of adultcentrism. While the treatment of pain in adults and children in...

Elba Rahmouni - Olivier Guillard

Sexual abuse perpetrated by humanitarian workers: from moral relativism to competitive victimhood

Drawing on the example of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Françoise Duroch and Emmanuel Noyer review the measures taken by the non-governmental organisation (NGO) to combat sexual violence. The authors show...

Emmanuel Noyer - Françoise Duroch

Ebola: past, present and future

Epidemiologists following the Ebola virus since its emergence in 1976 and involved in the heart of the response to this last and most terrible epidemic, Michael Edelstein and David L. Heymann...

David L. Heymann - Michael Edelstein