[University and tropical medicine]

Abstract

Two "tropical medicine" coexist: a "clinical tropical medicine" concerning imported tropical diseases in North countries who is worked at clinical departments and travellers clinics and a multidisciplinary "international health", concerning tropical countries development, who is the concern of South and North Institutes cooperation. International health expansion compel to collaborate with foreign universities and institutes in and beyond the French-speaking area. The scattering of practitioners, teachers and research workers in the midst of various French institutions and distance from field limit the academic policy of development. Harmonizing national and European tropical medicine teachings belong to inter-academic gathering. Programming and financing of international health come under an inter-ministerial agency.