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Opportunities, limits and challenges of perceptions studies for humanitarian contexts
Caroline Abu-Sada
2016This article aims to advance understanding and discussion of perceptions studies as a method for strengthening humanitarian performance. Perceptions studies are qualitative studies produced for and...
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Volunteers and responsibility for risk-taking: Changing interpretations of the Charter of Médecins Sans Frontières
Caroline Abu-Sada
2016The Charter of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the guiding document for all of the organization’s members, states in the final paragraph that volunteers “understand the risks and...
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Experimental Treatment with Favipiravir for Ebola Virus Disease (the JIKI Trial): A Historically Controlled, Single-Arm Proof-of-Concept Trial in Guinea
Marc Poncin
2016Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a highly lethal condition for which no specific treatment has proven efficacy. In September 2014, while the Ebola outbreak was at its peak, the World Health Organization...
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Borders and migration: an issue of global health importance
James Smith
2016The movement of people has featured throughout human history; so substantial is the legacy of migration that the freedom of movement within and across borders was enshrined in article 13 of the UN...
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Deplorable conditions in French ‘Refugee Camp’
James Smith
2015The suffering endured by refugees and other exiles in the northern port town of Calais, France, has been the subject of significant media attention in recent months. Renewed interest in the plight of ...
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Reaching out to Ebola victims: Coercion, persuasion or an appeal for self-sacrifice?
Marc Poncin, Philippe Calain
2015The 2014–2015 Ebola crisis in West Africa has highlighted the practical limits of upholding human rights and common ethical principles when applying emergency public-health measures. The role...
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Challenges in Responding to Massive Displacements in Resource-poor Settings: The Case of Central African Republic Refugees in Eastern Cameroon
Caroline Abu-Sada
2015Read the letter by Caroline Abu Sa'Da and Christine Jamet, a response to the briefing by Welz “Crisis in the Central African Republic and the international response” published in...
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The Politics behind the Ebola Crisis
Duncan McLean
28.10.2015West Africa is still paying the price for its poor response to the Ebola epidemic. Where an early response could have prevented the worst, failures on all levels allowed Ebola to spread, exposing a...
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Coincident polio and Ebola crises expose similar fault lines in the current global health regime
Caroline Abu-Sada, Philippe Calain
2015In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared two "public health emergencies of international concern", in response to the worldwide polio situation and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa...
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Counterterrorism policies and practices: health and values at stake
Philippe Calain
2015The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used a fake vaccination programme to obtain DNA samples in the search for Osama Bin Laden, which caused distrust and hampered polio eradication and ...
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Care for victims of sexual violence, an organization pushed to its limits: The case of Médecins Sans Frontières
Françoise Duroch
01.09.2015Over the past ten years, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided medical care to almost 118,000 victims of sexual violence. Integrating related care into MSF general assistance to populations...
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Reconstruction of the health sector in Haiti: a missed opportunity?
Maude Montani
2015The impact of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was devastating for a country whose history was already marked by poverty, natural disasters, environmental degradation and political instability. An...