Mental health: a necessary global approach
Since the mid-1990s, mental health has been recognised as a crucial aspect of human suffering in humanitarian crises. Many organisations have built expertise specific to acute crisis situations based on...
Global mental health in a time of change
It is a difficult exercise in summary writing that Davide Ziveri undertakes here. Looking at the six articles in this issue, he attempts to put them into perspective in the...
“Clean India”: why the undeniable success of the Swachh Bharat Mission does not signal the end of open defecation
A fact of life in India for centuries, this practice has major health implications. The author explains what these are and looks back at a major national campaign to build...
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...
Learning from Covid-19: the inextricable link between health and housing
If there is a health requirement as much as a cause of inequality that the pandemic has cruelly brought to light, it is that relating to housing. For the author,...
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,...
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...
Humanitarian ethics and international relations: Contradictions or (re)conciliations?
Continuing the theme developed by Jean-François Mattei and Pierre Le Coz in the last two issues of our review, Virginie Troit attempts here to clear the way for ethics in...
Responding to Covid-19 in conflicts: difficult but necessary
In this article, Michiel Hofman reflects on the difficulty of implementing a health response in war zones especially in a context where States are mistrusted, where non-state armed groups call...
Aid localisation: current state of the debate and potential impacts of the Covid-19 crisis
Could the debate about localising aid and actually putting it into practice undergo an unexpected resurgence due to the global health crisis? Either way, the Covid-19 crisis is an opportunity...
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...
An analysis of ethical dilemmas in medical internships in countries with limited resources
What are the cross-effects (advantages and disadvantages) of humanitarian missions in fragile contexts? New light is shone on this long-standing issue through the lens of medical internships in countries with...