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Attacks on Hospitals: an Alarming Problem for Military Medicine as well as for Humanitarian Medicine
Philippe Calain
2017As part of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), Additional Protocols I and II of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions and other treaties provide for the protection of patients, medical personnel and...
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The evolving role of CSR in international development: Evidence from Canadian extractive companies’ involvement in community health initiatives in low-income countries
Philippe Calain
2017Overseas development agencies and international finance organisations view the exploitation of minerals as a strategy for alleviating poverty in low-income countries. However, for local communities...
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Response to 'On Complicity and Compromise' by Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin
Philippe Calain
2017Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin invite us to join their insightful ‘conversation’ on complicity and compromise. Their book makes a dense, utterly precise and rewarding reading, as one proceeds...
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Dilemmas in access to medicines: a humanitarian perspective
James Smith
2017We challenge the assertion made by Govind Persad and Ezekiel Emanuel (Aug 27, p 932) that “expanding access to less effective or more toxic [antiretroviral] treatments rather than requiring the...
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When free is not fair: the case of vaccine donations
James Smith
2017On Oct 10, 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) rejected Pfizer’s proposed donation of 1 million doses of its branded pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). The news caused a stir in the...
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Palliative care in humanitarian medicine
James Smith
2017Palliative care interventions have historically been neglected in the practice of humanitarian medicine. This may come as a surprise, since it is a sombre reality that medical...
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Violence and its Humanitarian Impact: The Case of Kivu
Duncan McLean
16.01.2017Decrypting the dynamics of continuing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is challenging at the best of times, more so given the profound political uncertainty that currently...
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Engaging with National Authorities: Médecins Sans Frontières’s experience in Guinea during the Ebola epidemic
Marc Poncin
2016With the expertise acquired over the past years on the Ebola virus disease, MSF was compelled to take on responsibilities beyond its usual first responder mandate during the Ebola crisis in West...
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Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises
James Smith
2016Medical humanitarian organizations don’t generally deal well with death. This may come as a surprise, since it’s a sombre reality of this line of work that frontline staff are often witness to...
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Treating, Containing, Mobilizing: The Role of Médecins Sans Frontières in the West African Ebola Epidemic Response
Marc Poncin
2016With 28,639 cases and 11,316 deaths, the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa stunned the world, revealing the global health community’s collective shortcomings in the face of a...
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The Ebola clinical trials: a precedent for research ethics in disasters
Philippe Calain
2016The West African Ebola epidemic has set in motion a collective endeavour to conduct accelerated clinical trials, testing unproven but potentially lifesaving interventions in the course of a major...
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Defective interfering genomes and Ebola virus persistence
Philippe Calain
2016Michael Jacobs and colleagues (The Lancet, 2016, Vol. 388, p. 498-503) provide clinical and virological evidence of a relapse of Ebola virus disease (EVD) presenting as acute meningo-encephalitis 9...