Epidemic

Focus

Community health at risk: shifts in the global health architecture in the face of the funding crisis in the HIV fight

Thousands of jobs axed, research pro­jects halted in their tracks, key popula­tions abandoned: the funding crisis in the fight against HIV is mainly hitting community players. As the withdrawal of...

Ines Alaoui - Marion Di Ciaccio - Nicolas Lorente

Aid in danger

After the funding stops: the human cost of aid dependency in Côte d’Ivoire

Published on 13 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November...

Ella Noël - Lea Obermüller

Focus

Communicating and convincing: a humanitarian perspective on the French response to the coronavirus epidemic

In this paper, the two authors examine certain aspects of the French response to the epidemic in the light of the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in that field,...

Emmanuel Baron - Michaël Neuman

Perspectives

How the Covid-19 pandemic is increasing the need for an operational approach in health anthropology

If there is one lesson to be learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that our health systems, and entire swathes of our scientific knowledge along with them, have been...

Yannick Jaffré

Editorial Focus

Humanitarian aid hit by Covid-19

The entire world has, to say the least, been “gripped” by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the “little” humanitarian world has not escaped. It was undoubtedly less surprised by this explosion,...

Boris Martin

Perspectives

Changes in our environment and epidemics are linked to human activity

The global health crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic has confirmed that most modern epidemics are caused by cross-species virus transmission between wildlife and humans. According to Jean-François Mattei, since...

Jean-François Mattei

Focus

Understanding the history, dynamics and workings of epidemics

Where do epidemics come from, how do they spread, and how do they behave? To answer these questions, and to introduce this issue’s theme, it was first deemed necessary to...

Jean Freney

Perspectives

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

Focus

Learning the hard way: how the Ebola virus experience can help Guinea deal with Covid-19

Resilience can emerge from fragility. This is what Stéphanie Maltais observed from her research conducted in the aftermath of the Ebola crisis in Guinea between 2013 and 2016. Lessons that...

Stéphanie Maltais

Focus

What the Covid-19 crisis tells us about our ability to learn

The ability to learn from previous crises and adapt those lessons to any new context is one of the keys to disaster management, including health disasters. François Grünewald’s article seeks...

François Grünewald

Focus

The central role of community health in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic: the experience of Médecins du Monde Canada

Might a community approach be one of the solutions for social distancing, the scope of which has been revealed by the current pandemic? This is the argument put forward by...

Chloé Cébron - Nadja Pollaert - Shelley-Rose Hyppolite

Innovations

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