Guinea

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

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

Focus

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....

Jean-Hervé Bradol

Focus

Ebola in Guinea: strengths and weaknesses brought to the fore

Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité talks to us about Guinea’s handling of the Ebola crisis – an opportunity for us to take the pulse of the second most seriously affected country by...

Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité

Forum

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...

Marc Poncin