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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...

Michiel Hofman

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A test of dignity: an anthropological analysis of Covid-19 responses in West Africa

The three authors of this article conducted an anthropological analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic as seen from and experienced in Africa, shedding valuable insight into how this pandemic has been...

Yannick Jaffré - Fatoumata Hane - Hélène Kane

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The Covid-19 pandemic: a double burden in humanitarian crises

From refugee camps in Kenya or Jordan to countries in conflict such as Yemen or Syria, the expertise of humanitarian actors is key to limiting the spread of the pandemic...

Karl Blanchet

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An unhealthy combination: War, Covid-19 and the politics of metaphor

At a time when multilateralism is collapsing and populism rising, Norah Niland highlights the new fragilities that Covid-19 has revealed in local and international systems of governance. If the pandemic...

Norah Niland

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Between threats and opportunities: the Canadian response to Covid-19

How did Canada, which has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic, organise itself? This collective of authors has undertaken a particularly instructive detailed review. We learn how non-governmental organisations,...

David Grant-Poitras - Diane Alalouf-Hall - Jean-Marc Fontan - Stéphanie Maltais - Yvan Conoir

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Why Covid-19 should not be considered as solely a humanitarian emergency

Should the health, social and political blast represented by the current pandemic lead humanitarian workers to break free from the principle of neutrality? In this article, the author gives a...

Anna Khakee

Opinion

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Neoliberalism: are we past the peak of the epidemic?

While we have all now become amateur epidemiologists, we have also seen first-hand the adverse effects caused by neoliberalism. In an equally relevant and exhilarating parallel, the two authors recount...

Alain Caillé - Bertrand Livinec

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How to take care of humankind at +2°C?

On 15 and 16 April 2019, on the 100th anniversary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the French Red Cross held a conference entitled “Health and...

Audrey Sala

Perspectives

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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

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Overcoming barriers for treating people who use drugs in an urban setting

Reaching drug users in urban contexts is as much a challenge as it is a social and health requirement. In Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, Médecins Sans Frontières has developed...

Alexandra Malm  - Carlota Silva  - Dr Alan González  - Dr Lucas Molfino 

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Demographics in the service of Universal Health Coverage: examples in West Africa

Health interventions typically favour pregnant women and children under 5 years of age. A prism that does not take into account other ever-growing vulnerable populations: the indigents and the elderly. The...

Emmanuel Bonnet - Kadidiatou Kadio - Manuela De Allegri - Sarah Louart - Valéry Ridde

Innovations

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Operational research and malnutrition: state of knowledge and food for thought

Many NGOs have already responded to the requirement of linking action and research. For instance, since 2016, Action Against Hunger has been holding a conference to take stock of these...

Amador Gomez - Pascal Revault - Pawankumar Patil

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