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Communicable diseases, health systems and humanitarian aid in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Antoine Degrémont
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What is the present situation, what are the lessons to be learned and what strategies should be adopted in the field of communicable diseases? These are the issues now facing us, some 15 years past two milestones in the evolution of health care: the Alma Ata Declaration on primary health care and the discovery of the last case of smallpox worldwide. The present article will attempt to address these issues, on the basis of the experience of the Swiss Tropical Institute in Africa.

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II. Humanitarian agencies and vulnerable groups
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 34 , Special Issue 301: On the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , August 1994 , pp. 360 - 367
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1994

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