Sub-Saharan Africa

Focus

Standardisation challenged by local dynamics: the example of mental health programmes in the Chad Basin

This article is based on a study carried out by Groupe URD in Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad. The authors’ approach, based on the social determinants of psychological disorders, allows...

Florence Chatot - Henri Mbarkoutou Mahamat

Ethics

How the Global North is solving its health worker shortage while exacerbating the Global South’s

It is an issue spanning ethics, professional conduct and social justice that Nago Humbert, a specialist in medical psychology and paediatric palliative care and head of the humanitarian think tank...

Nago Humbert

Editorial Focus

Population science working hand-in-hand with humanitarian workers?

Vincent Léger is co-pilot of this issue’s Focus.

Vincent Léger

Focus

Sub-Saharan Africa: worrying clouds on the horizon

Having long been condemned to pessimism, Africa has unquestionably picked itself up, confronting considerable challenges – such as the recent Ebola crisis –, displaying encouraging economic growth and exporting its numerous talents....

Serge Michailof

Focus

The use of digital tools at large scale: lessons from a health programme in Burkina Faso

The first article of this Focus is feedback from a digital health project Terre des hommes has led for almost eight years. This timeframe makes it possible for the authors...

Enric Jané - Guillaume Foutry - Simon Sanou

Innovations

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...

Julien Potet