Medicine and public health

MSF Intervention in Leganés Olmo Calvo Interview

« L’ordinaire devient extraordinaire »

03/31/2020 Rony Brauman

Rony Brauman évoque pour La Croix le temps singulier du confinement causé par la propagation du Covid-19. Il encourage les débats argumentés sur les mesures prises par les pouvoirs publics, et dénonce la prise de conscience si tardive des conditions de travail des soignants : "Les éloges qui sont adressés aujourd’hui au personnel hospitalier contrastent singulièrement avec le dédain voire le mépris dans lequel leurs revendications ont été reçues ces dernières années". 

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MSF starts COVID-19 coronavirus activities in France Agnes Varraine-Leca/MSF Interview

« La métaphore de la guerre sert à disqualifier tout débat »

03/30/2020 Rony Brauman

Dans cet entretien paru dans L'Obs le 27 mars, Rony Brauman approuve les mesures de confinement, mais dénonce la réduction des capacités des hôpitaux et la rhétorique martiale du chef de l’Etat : « Qualifier les soignants de “héros”, c’est gommer les raisons de la crise sanitaire. »

 

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Watsan Team disinfects Freetown Houses Fabio Basone/MSF Interview

« La situation m’évoque Ebola à Monrovia en 2014 »

03/20/2020 Jean-Hervé Bradol

Pour le journal La Croix, Jean-Hervé Bradol évoque les similitudes entre l’épidémie de coronavirus et les précédentes épidémies qu’il a vécues au sein de MSF : "On prévoit un moment de crise où l’offre de soins sera de très loin inférieure à la demande en ce qui concerne les cas graves."

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Rony Brauman sur l'épidémie de Conoravirus

03/09/2020 Rony Brauman

Rony Brauman répond, dans cette courte vidéo du FIFDH, à différentes questions relatives à l'épidémie de Coronavirus. Après avoir apporté son expertise sur la contagion et la létalité du virus ou sur les conséquences indirectes d'une épidémie, il met en avant l'importance du financement de la recherche et le caractère fondamental de la confiance de la population envers les pouvoirs publics. 

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Sanitation activities in urban slum, Haiti MSF/Lauranne Grégoire Review

About "Choléra, Haïti, 2010-2018, Histoire d’un désastre" by Renaud Piarroux

12/23/2019 Rony Brauman

The cholera outbreak in Haiti in October 2010 was among the deadliest in modern history, with 800,000 people infected and 10,000 fatalities. And these are just the official figures. The actual death toll was far higher, as evidenced by numerous retrospective mortality surveys, and can only be expressed as an order of magnitude: to wit, several tens of thousands.   
This book recounts eight years of struggle on two fronts that the author shows to be closely linked: the field, with the implementation of measures of prevention and case management; the scientific debate, in the form of a shattering of the dominant environmental theory concerning the origin of the epidemic.

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Ebola outbreak - Bunia John Wessels Interview

Ebola outbreak: a failure in social mobilisation

09/10/2019 Jean-Hervé Bradol Elba Rahmouni

On August 1st 2018, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s health authorities declared the country’s tenth outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD), this time in North Kivu province.  Just over a year later, this outbreak is still ongoing, with several dozen new cases reported each week. In the space of 12 months, 3000 people contracted the disease and 2000 of them have since died. This latest outbreak can be seen as a failure at two levels: first, it is already the second biggest EVD outbreak ever recorded, and second, two out of three patients have died. What are the reasons for this failure? What operational strategies should we develop in response? 
Interview with Jean-Hervé Bradol, Director of studies at CRASH, by Elba Rahmouni.

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Came Video

The 20th anniversary of the MSF Access Campaign

06/03/2019

To address the political, economic and legal barriers to patients' access to life-saving treatments, MSF created, in 1999, the Access Campaign (the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines). In these videos, Jean-Hervé Bradol, doctor and crash study director, answers questions from Andrea Bussotti (MSF-France Operational Communication Manager). In the light of the historical background of the early days of the Access Campaign, he analyses the medico-operational context of the Campaign today and asks himself the question of its objectives.

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Analysis

Literature review on the evaluation of the quality of care from a patient’s perspective

02/15/2019 Hannah BARNETT

The study The Patient Perspective of Quality of Care: A Review of the Literature, which we present here was carried out by Hannah Barnett a public health student at George Washington University, intern with CRASH from June to August 2018. This work sums up seventy articles from a variety of disciplines including medicine and public health. It is part of a reflection initiated by MSF a few years ago on medical quality and the patient-centered approach.

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