title: [Medical policies, state and religious missions in Rwanda (1920-1940). An authoritative design of colonial medicine?].
abstract: The Belgian health policy set up in mandated Rwanda after the First World War was mainly centred on some campaigns taking specifically yaws as a target. The struggle against this endemic disease (not fatal, but most disabling) was organized in a very systematic and authoritarian way. This article looks into two of those yaws campaigns, questions their runnings and alterations, and finally brings to light the intra-colonial tensions between the health services and the administration on the one hand, between the colonizers and the African populations on the other hand.
authors.affiliation: Université Catholique de Louvain.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cornet
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D002835:Christianity / Q000266:history; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011056:Political Systems / Q000266:history; D008921:Religious Missions / Q000266:history*; D012432:Rwanda; D015001:Yaws / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control