War and humanitarianism, medicine and public health, rights and justice... Discover CRASH publications sorted by themes.
The fact that CRASH publications are written from an aid practitioner's, rather than researcher's, perspective, does not exempt them from the demands of rigorous research methods. We try hard at this, with the help of (volunteer) research professionals. The publications are not the MSF party line, but rather tools for reflexion based on MSF's framework and experience. They have only one purpose: to help us better understand what we are doing. Criticisms, comments and suggestions are more than welcome - they are expected.
![Handicaps et Médecine Un travailleur MSF aide un enfant qui a perdu une jambe à se tenir debout](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF43512-msf-staff-helps-a-boy-to-stand.jpg?h=b5e6ed15&itok=gGqXdfcM)
Disabilities and Medicine. A survey of the Amman surgical reconstruction project 2012
10/02/2013Our survey bears something of a resemblance to a study carried out by Vanja Kovacic in Homa Bay, Kenya, in which she investigated patients’ disease coping mechanisms and their “dependence on medical institutions”.
![Le CICR doit oser briser l’embargo humanitaire en Syrie L'afflux des Syriens au camps de Domeez](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF132586-influx-of-syrians-into-domeez-camp_0.jpg?itok=wdQ59Nq1)
Syria: Breaking the De Facto Humanitarian Embargo against Rebel-Held Areas
03/19/2013While European Union members are debating the lifting of arms embargo on Syria, populations living in opposition held territories continue to be severed from desperately needed humanitarian aid. Yet, there is a controversy among aid agencies on the best ways to scale up relief activities in Syria.
![Toubib or not toubib Le prélèvement sanguin d'un enfant](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF115474-treating-outbreaks-of-malaria.jpg?itok=fR0v7m7h)
Doctor WHO?
09/03/2012In this chronicle "Alternatives Internationales", Rony Brauman discusses the return of using community health workers as primary access points for healthcare, in the recommendations of the WHO and practices of some governments.
![En finir avec les décès dus aux tuberculoses résistantes Buenaventura, un centre de soins](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSF112611-buenaventura-sanitation-and-maternal-health_0.jpg?itok=fs49CBSK)
Refusing to accept the death toll from drug-resistant TB
04/27/2012Epidemiological studies estimate that nearly nine million people were suffering from active tuberculosis (TB) in 2010, causing upwards of one and a half million deaths. More than 90% of these deaths took place in low- or middle-income countries, thus reinforcing an old idea that TB and poverty are strongly linked.
![Le génocide au Rwanda raconté par un humanitaire français Des hommes discutent autour d'une table](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSB7636-kigali-genocide-rwandan-tutsis.jpg?h=b882f16f&itok=8nT-UEmI)
Against the memorial laws
03/09/2012Considering that the United Nations juridictions officially recognises six genocides, Rony Brauman considers unjustifiable the fact that the French Parliament only recognises . The only alternative is to recognise all of them or none.
![Distribution of NFI in remote areas](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2022-10/msf267761high.jpg?itok=TaKHvpqe)
Natural Disasters: “Do Something!”
02/17/2012In this interview conducted by Claudine Vidal in 2012 and published in the book Agir à Tout Prix (Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: the MSF experience), Rony Brauman speaks about emergency humanitarian aid set up following natural disasters. Time constraints, access to victims, cooperation with local institutions, misleading representations of the disasters' effects, controversial assessments of the number of casualties; various topics related to these interventions are discussed and illustrated with specific examples.
![Agir à tout prix? Négociations humanitaires: l'expérience de MSF Couverture du livre Agir à tout prix? Négociations humanitaires: l'expérience de MSF](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-06/MSF-cover-agir-a-tout-prix_0.jpg?h=ab8d725e&itok=P1sKZchE)
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: the MSF experience
02/17/2012From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged ‘clash of civilisations’, our ‘humanitarian space’ is shrinking.
![Sida : nouvelle pandémie, nouvelles pratiques médicales et politiques Département VIH/sida de l'hôpital régional d'Arua en Ouganda](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2017-05/MSB16331.jpg?itok=Ed8fq3GK)
AIDS: A new pandemic leading to new medical and political practices
12/15/2011It seemed appropriate to assemble these texts now, at a time when the history of our AIDS missions is compelling us to formulate new goals.
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40 years helping the disregarded
12/11/2011Rony Brauman discusses several aspects and issues related humanitarian action as well as the good reasons to wish Médecins sans frontières a happy 40th anniversary.