Resumen de Biafra at 50 and the Birth of Emergency Public Health.
The article discusses emergency public health and humanitarian efforts during a civil war between Nigeria and the Republica of Biafra. Topics include the French Red Cross' role in the Biafra relief effort, the United States' supply of personnel, aircraft, financial support and medical supplies in the relief effort, and the need for public health practitioners to plan for the end of conflict in order to avoid situations such as Biafra's collapse resulting from nutritional adversity and famine.
