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Ethics and images of suffering bodies in humanitarian medicine
Philippe Calain
2013Media representations of suffering bodies from medical humanitarian organisations raise ethical questions, which deserve critical attention for at least three reasons. Firstly, there is a normative...
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Aid and Quality, Haiti: The limits of the "Aid System"
Jean-Marc Biquet
30.03.2013The present article looks at the 2010 aid efforts in Haiti, a year in which 2 events resulted in massive humanitarian crisis. The first, the January 2010 earthquake, triggered overwhelming...
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Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project
Caroline Abu-Sada
2012What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? MSF sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that...
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Strategic Management in International Aid Organizations
Maude Montani
2012...
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What Is the Relationship of Medical Humanitarian Organisations with Mining and Other Extractive Industries?
Philippe Calain
2012In developing countries, extractive industries have far reaching consequences on health through environmental pollution, some communicable diseases, violence, destitution, and compromised food...
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The sound of silence: global health challenges from the front
James Smith
2012There are no sirens. Nor is the silence disrupted by the rush of feet or frantic blue lights. Instead, our enduring patients arrive at the hospital gates on foot, most having travelled for many...
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Résistances et appropriations institutionnelles des Organisations Non Gouvernementales autour de la notion de victimes de violences sexuelles: Le cas de Médecins Sans Frontières en République Démocratique du Congo
Françoise Duroch
2012This article analyzes Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) organizational transformation serving victims of sexual violence. It examines how conflicts, AIDS, and media coverage shaped the institutional...
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In search of the ‘New informal legitimacy’ of Médecins Sans Frontières
Philippe Calain
2012For medical humanitarian organizations, making their sources of legitimacy explicit is a useful exercise, in response to: misperceptions, concerns over the ‘humanitarian space’,...
Report
Fleeing the Violence in Syria: Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Caroline Abu-Sada
2012While Lebanon has absorbed tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighboring Syria in recent months, many people are living in overcrowded conditions, suffering psychological...
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In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid
Caroline Abu-Sada
2012Over the past 40 years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has developed a reputation as an emergency medical humanitarian organization willing to go almost anywhere to deliver...
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High prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, Swaziland, 2009–2010
Philippe Calain
2012In Africa, although emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) represents a serious threat in countries severely affected by the HIV epidemic, most countries lack drug-resistant TB...
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MSF in the Middle-East: a challenging context?
Caroline Abu-Sada
2011In this special feature of this issue of Humanitarian Exchange, which focuses on humanitarian action in the Middle East, Caroline Abu-Sada describes how Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has adapted...