Fabrice explains his work in Rokero, Jebel Marra.

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TEXTS

Did you know that we have
an anthropologist in Darfur?

His name is Fabrice:
let's meet him

3 questions
(and answers)

Why an anthropologist
in an MSF project?

How is organized
your work with
the communities?

What are the problems
in access to care?

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An anthropologist in Rokero

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it is important to understand
people's perception

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and help to work better with them.

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It's really satisfying.

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It's cool to be in the community,
to talk with people,

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to interact with them,
to understand their fears,

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their realities, their emotions,
is that they would like to have...

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To be close to people
to understand their reality.

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And then this allows us
to adjust our services.

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It is an approach,

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it's a way of doing
things more flexible

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and more grateful
with the value of human beings

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and the fact that all people
should have some comfort.

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We organize our work
in the community,

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we talk to people,

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community leaders,

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community members,
men, women,

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young people, religious leaders.

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The goal is to know their challenge

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when it comes to access to care.

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Associate with what we already know

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and explore ways of working together.

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At the maternity level,
around here,

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women give birth at home,

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with the help of traditional
birth attendants.

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The idea of reconciling the biomedical
and the traditional

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is to get in touch with
these traditional approaches

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who are very organized,
provide them training

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and give them the opportunity
to use our services

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when they can't provide

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normal childbirth at home, as usual.

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The way of living is quite
disparate and isolated.

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We have small villages that are distant

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from each other and
who are in mountains.

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So there is no road.

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Displacements are made

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on the back of a donkey,
on the back of a camel.

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Patients arrive late at the hospital.

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In Rokero, MSF we do
secondary health care.

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And patients feel like
that to be admitted to MSF,

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they have to come
with a serious condition.

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It is quite difficult to access
primary care

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which makes patients
drag a little more

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in order to be admitted to MSF.