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Access to health products: which priorities and what role for MSF?

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On 3rd and 4th February 2022, the CRASH organised a workshop aimed principally at the directors and operational managers of MSF Operational Centre Paris (OCP) to reflect on current debates, and to determine which elements of the discussion would be the most relevant to resolve to support the advancement of MSF OCP’s operational projects. Is access to medicines the same issue today as it was when MSF first became interested in the mid-1990s? Rather than just concentrating on the obstacles to accessing medicines, should the debate be broadened to encompass what are now called ‘health products’ or even further, towards access to care and thus largely structural problems of human resources, financing, or the absence of national health insurance policies?

#ArchivesduCrash In this “Cahier du Crash” published in 2013, Marc Le Pape and Suzanne Bradol examine the issue of patients’ dependence on medical institutions, through a survey within the MSF reconstructive surgery program in Amman. https://t.co/iFjvLiT7x9
#ArchivesduCrash Dans ce Cahier publié en 2013, Marc Le Pape et Suzanne Bradol étudient, à travers une enquête menée au sein du programme de chirurgie reconstructrice d'Amman, la question de la dépendance des patients à l’égard des institutions médicales. https://t.co/Ug8iimZPl5
#ArchivesduCrash In this interview, François-Xavier Daoudal, an MSF nurse, recounts his experience aboard the Aquarius in June 2018, when the ship rescued 629 people in the Mediterranean. https://t.co/7LzcLBEb3K
#ArchivesduCrash Dans cet entretien, François-Xavier Daoudal, infirmier à MSF, raconte son expérience à bord de l’Aquarius en juin 2018, lorsque le navire a secouru 629 personnes en Méditerranée. https://t.co/CbCBTNjXcG
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Access to health products: which priorities and what role for MSF?

On 3rd and 4th February 2022, the CRASH organised a workshop aimed principally at the directors and operational managers of MSF Operational Centre Paris (OCP) to reflect on current debates, and to determine which elements of the discussion would be the most relevant to resolve to support the advancement of MSF OCP’s operational projects. Is access to medicines the same issue today as it was when MSF first became interested in the mid-1990s? Rather than just concentrating on the obstacles to accessing medicines, should the debate be broadened to encompass what are now called ‘health products’ or even further, towards access to care and thus largely structural problems of human resources, financing, or the absence of national health insurance policies?

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Historicising Humanitarian Action. Synchronicity in Historical Research and Archiving Humanitarian Missions

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Access to health products: which priorities and what role for MSF?

On 3rd and 4th February 2022, the CRASH organised a workshop aimed principally at the directors and operational managers of MSF Operational Centre Paris (OCP) to reflect on current debates, and to determine which elements of the discussion would be the most relevant to resolve to support the advancement of MSF OCP’s operational projects. Is access to medicines the same issue today as it was when MSF first became interested in the mid-1990s? Rather than just concentrating on the obstacles to accessing medicines, should the debate be broadened to encompass what are now called ‘health products’ or even further, towards access to care and thus largely structural problems of human resources, financing, or the absence of national health insurance policies?