Those who live on the water
We were introduced to Didier Bizet and his work in 2022 through his report on the Order of Malta’s mobile medical unit in Lebanon.[1]Didier Bizet, “Lebanon: healthcare takes to the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Management of the suffering child: a medical and operational challenge
Elba Rahmouni and Olivier Guillard • Médecins Sans Frontières This article presents a troubling example of the effects of adultcentrism. While the treatment of pain in adults and children in...
Sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian organisations in Cameroon: methods for identification and logics of obstruction
Staff turnover, breaches of confidentiality within the organisations responsible for gathering complaints and attempts at a cover-up by refugee-camp authorities all reflect the difficulty of implementing measures against sexual abuse...
Humanitarian action in the face of civic mobilisations. The example of the Senegalese movement Y en a marre
How can humanitarian rhetoric be mobilised in the context of civic struggles in the Souths and how can such mobilisations call out to humanitarian NGOs from the North? Thomas Fouquet...
Lessons from Ebola
After more than 11,000 deaths, according to the WHO, and about 30,000 infected people in West Africa, the spread of the Ebola virus has finally decreased since the summer of...
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...
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....
Tale of a mission to Liberia, unlike any other
In his story of his field experiences Jean-Pierre Veyrenche brings us close to people by giving us the opportunity to get a feel for the atmosphere that pervaded Liberia during...