epidemic

conférence-débat sur les effets de la polio Conference

The polio eradication campaign put to test

02/04/2014 - 01:30 PM 07:30 PM Claire Magone

On February 4, 2014, the Crash team was delighted to welcome Dr Rashid Jooma, from Aga Khan university, Karachi, Dr Elisha Renne, professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan ; Johannes Everts, WHO technical expert and Dr Hamid Jafari, Director of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative WHO. This round table was moderated by Claire Magone.
 

 

 

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Un homme enfile des gants avant une campagne de vaccination Pierre-Yves Bernard Analysis

Le dernier mile

10/23/2013 Claire Magone

L'éradication totale de la poliomyélite est-elle un but raisonnable ? Dans un article paru sur La vie des idées, Claire Magone décompte les effets pervers d'une campagne qui n'a plus d'autre fin qu'elle-même et risque de porter préjudice à d'autres enjeux de santé mondiale.

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Distribution of NFI in remote areas Giuseppe La Rosa/MSF Interview

Natural Disasters: “Do Something!”

02/17/2012 Rony Brauman Claudine Vidal

In 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.

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