MSF-Crash
Book
10/01/2011
Jean-Hervé Bradol
Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations explores how the particular style of humanitarian action practiced by MSF has stayed in line with the standards in scientifically advanced countries while also leading to significant improvements in the medical care delivered to people in crisis.
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Pep Bonet
Opinion
01/14/2011
Rony Brauman
Fabrice Weissman
One year after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, a number of observers and actors are questioning the international aid : reconstruction is at a standstill, homeless people are still facing the same situation and the deadly cholera epidemic reminds us that international aid has not helped to improve the very poor sanitation system.
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Karine Klein
Analysis
07/23/2010
Jean-Hervé Bradol
Using Niger as an example, this text seeks to explore the dilemmas involved in medical responses to child malnutrition when such malnutrition is endemic (strong, permanent presence) and gives rise to seasonal peaks (epidemics) each year.
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Andrew McConnell/Panos Pictures
Op-ed
01/20/2010
Rony Brauman
The earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and neighboring areas has led to a worldwide surge of solidarity which we must fully appreciate because no country could face such a disaster on this scale alone.
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Daro Sulakauri
Opinion
12/01/2009
Rony Brauman
Pharmaceutical companies produce drugs and are increasing involved in the clinical trials of these products. This conflict of interest is incompatible with the expectations of Public Health. Rony Brauman suggests that the industry no longer be responsible for therapeutic trials.
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Op-ed
07/29/2009
Jean-Hervé Bradol
Based on MSF's experience in responding to epidemics, Jean-Hervé Bradol describes the risks of spending precious time and energy on trying to delay the spread of the epidemic rather than on the case management of large numbers of sick people.
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Anthony Jacopucci
Opinion
06/15/2009
Jean-Hervé Bradol
Influenza A H1N1 is turning into a pandemic. What will the number of cases be, what groups will be the most affected, how virulent will the virus be, and how long will it last?
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Frederic Noy
Book
02/01/2009
Rony Brauman
Humanitarian medicine is intented for marginalized people, hit by a crisis or deprived of access to medical care. This book helps us understand how the specificity of humanitarian medicine stems from real-life situations, more than from the medical act in itself.
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Larry Towell
Analysis
11/21/2006
Rony Brauman
Rony Brauman reviews the myths and mechanisms governing the deployment of international aid following the Southeast Asian tsunami in December 2004.
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Wendy Marijnissen
Opinion
05/01/2003
Rony Brauman
Rony Brauman questions the link between public health decisions and the right to health care.
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MSF-Crash
Book
11/01/1995
François Jean
« Never again »: in the wake of the second World War, the terror caused by the Holocaust led the community of states to condemn genocide as a crime and to create a new international organization, the United Nations. And yet, half a century later, the international community did nothing to prevent the first undeniable genocide since that of the Jews: it let the massacre of the Rwandan Tutsis and merely sent humanitarian aid, even though it was nearly over.
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