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...
The response to the Ebola epidemic: negligence, improvisation and authoritarianism
If MSF has held a preponderant position in the response to the Ebola crisis, it owes it just as much to its intervention capacities as to its capacity for criticism....
Tale of a mission to Liberia, unlike any other
In his story of his field experiences Jean-Pierre Veyrenche brings us close to people by giving us the opportunity to get a feel for the atmosphere that pervaded Liberia during...
Humanitarian action beyond the French doctors
To inaugurate this section “Perspectives” Eleanor Davey invites us to reread the history of the “French doctors” while going beyond the foundational “moment” of Biafra. This look offered by an...
The Summit of greater uncertainty
Fear and apprehension, just as the expectations that the World Humanitarian Summit inspires are not limited to the French speaking world, let’s say to these “French doctor” NGOs, with a...
Marc Poncin responds to Dr Diakité’s article
Published on May 3, 2016 Marc Poncin, MSF coordinator for the Ebola emergency in Guinea from April to December 2014, presently a researcher at the Unité de Recherche sur les...
Humanitarian drones: useful tool, toxic image
Undoubtedly it is technological tools that crystallize fantasies of efficiency and the greatest ambiguities the most. Drones induce multiple confusions – between civil and military use, interests of populations, NGOs and...
Snakebites in Africa: a humanitarian and political fight
This is an innovation probably ignored by the public at large and maybe even by some of the humanitarian actors. With 100,000 mortal bites per year, poisoning by snakes is...