humanitarian medicine

MSF Operations in Mayorsk, Ukraine Christopher Nunn/MSF Interview

Ukraine, virus, santé mondiale : les nouveaux enjeux de l'humanitaire - Entretien avec Rony Brauman

11/10/2022 Rony Brauman

Cet entretien, conduit par Aline Richard Zivohlava, a été publié le 1er novembre 2022 dans le magazine Le Figaro santé.
Guerre en Europe, menaces virales, risques terroristes... L'action humanitaire a dû se transformer pour s'adapter au temps présent. Ancien président de Médecins sans frontières, Rony Brauman en est un témoin privilégié. Tout n'est pas noir, souligne-t-il : la qualité des soins est meilleure, les personnels des pays du Sud montent en puissance et la médecine humanitaire a étendu son champ d'action.

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Analysis

About the possibility of controlling an HIV epidemic hotspot

11/14/2021 Elba Rahmouni Pierre Mendiharat Léon Salumu Luzinga

This article was first released in the 18th volume of the Humanitarian Alternatives magazine. Designed to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in a Kenyan district, a Médecins Sans Frontières project successfully exceeded the “90-90-90” target set by UNAIDS. A look back on the results that the authors of this article - Pierre Mendiharat, Deputy director of operations at MSF France and Léon Salumu Luzinga, Program manager at MSF France, interviewed by Elba Rahmouni - believe are encouraging but by no means a guarantee that the epidemic will be over by 2030.

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Rony Brauman. Francis Apesteguy Interview

"On a fait sans vaccin, sans pharma, avec ce dont on disposait"

06/19/2021 Rony Brauman

Cet entretien a été réalisé par Célia Héron pour Le Temps, et a été publié pour la première fois le 19 juin 2021.

Cette année, Médecins sans frontières fête les 50 ans de son étonnante histoire. A l’occasion du lancement de plusieurs événements à travers le monde ce mois-ci, Le Temps donne la parole à celui qui fut président de MSF de 1982 à 1994. 

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Painting "Tuko Poa" benches in Kibera Bryan Jaybee Cahier

Representations of HIV and impact on care seeking among the men of Homa Bay, Kenya

06/09/2020 Xavier Plaisancié

This study, conducted among the men of Homa Bay in Nyanza Province, Kenya, assesses the representations of HIV and impact on care seeking. It reveals that simply setting up a testing or care campaign does not necessarily mean that the entire population will participate; the message has to be tailored to the target population and fine-tuned even within that population.

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Doctors carry a patient infected by ebola Anna Surinyach Cahier

Médecins Sans Frontières and medical quality

01/01/2017 Rony Brauman Michèle Beck

The question of quality in the work of Médecins Sans Frontières has been asked from the very beginning of MSF's existence. On the one hand, the issue of improving the quality of practice is a part of ordinary professional activity; on the other hand, Médecins Sans Frontières' work involved working in distant lands and very specific environments, which demanded adjustments to medical practice as a result.

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Visuel de la médecine humanitaire Frederic Noy Book

Humanitarian Medicine

02/01/2012 Rony Brauman

Humanitarian medicine is made up of a wide range of practices with few obvious connections between them. Battlefield medicine and surgery, rural dispensaries in remote areas, campaigns to raise awareness about health problems in poor countries, emergency teams in disaster situations, vaccination campaigns, health education, help for marginalised groups in affluent countries and public health advice are just some examples of actions that fall within the scope of “humanitarian medicine” when they are carried out by organisations and in circumstances that can be classified as “humanitarian”.

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