Charpin M, Carteron B
Med Trop (Mars). 1979 Sep-Oct;39(5):571-6.
In the framework of the smallpox eradication worldwide programme, WHO, the Ethiopian, and the French governments signed a cooperation agreement by which the French Army Medical Service, based in the French Afars and Issas Territory (TFAI), was designated to carry out an immunization campaign in the ethiopian districts along the border with TFAI. With the every-day collaboration of the ethiopian governmental and traditional authorities, 44,000 people were immunized by the medical and paramedical personnel of 5 "ground teams" with heavy equipment and all-track vehicles and 1 "air-team" with helicopteres. In the same time (7 Feb. - 8 March 1974), the teams collected epidemiological informations on five selected tropical diseases: tuberculosis, malaria, bilharziosis, cholera, small-pox; a team from the TFAI Hygiene and Epidemiological Service investigated thoroughly the Kalo area. The ethiopian border districts are under-equiped with medical and hygiene facilities, and the population is used to go to the TFAI dispensaries and hospitals. TFAI being free of malaria, bilharziosis and smallpox, the French Medical Service has to maintain a firm grip on possible spreading. Kalo area might be a favorable reservoir due to the prevailing ecological conditions. Tuberculosis is so widely common that any control in the TFAI would imply a BCG campaign on both sides of the border within an inter-governmental plan of operations.
在全球消灭天花计划的框架内，世界卫生组织、埃塞俄比亚政府和法国政府签署了一项合作协议，据此，驻扎在法属阿法尔和伊萨领地（TFAI）的法国陆军医疗队被指定在与TFAI接壤的埃塞俄比亚边境地区开展免疫接种运动。在埃塞俄比亚政府和传统当局的日常协作下，5支配备重型设备和全履带车辆的“地面小组”以及1支配备直升机的“空中小组”的医疗和辅助医疗人员为44000人进行了免疫接种。与此同时（1974年2月7日至3月8日），这些小组收集了关于五种选定热带疾病的流行病学信息：结核病、疟疾、血吸虫病、霍乱、天花；TFAI卫生与流行病学服务处的一个小组对卡洛地区进行了全面调查。埃塞俄比亚边境地区的医疗和卫生设施不足，当地居民习惯前往TFAI的诊疗所和医院。由于TFAI没有疟疾、血吸虫病和天花，法国医疗队必须密切关注疾病的可能传播。由于当地普遍的生态条件，卡洛地区可能是一个有利的传染源。结核病非常普遍，因此在TFAI进行的任何防控都意味着要在政府间行动计划框架内，在边境两侧开展卡介苗接种运动。
