2025 "Avenir" Award for her research in socio-anthropology of health, focusing on the trajectories of women drug users in Senegal.
The Foundation wished to reward Rose André Faye for her research in socio-anthropology of health, focusing on the trajectories of women drug users in Senegal.
Rose André Faye holds a PhD in health anthropology. In 2022, she defended her thesis entitled ‘Gender and addiction: the trajectories of women drug users in Senegal’ at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the IRD’s TransVIHMI team, which conducts research in health anthropology in the field of HIV and vulnerabilities, in partnership with the Regional Centre for Research and Training on HIV and Associated Diseases in Fann, Dakar (CRCF) and the Centre for Integrated Addiction Care in Dakar (CEPIAD).
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The Research Prizes of the French Red Cross Foundation, awarded with the support of the Red Cross of Andorra, aim to highlight scientific work already completed or innovative lines of thought devoted to humanitarian and social issues, both in the North and in the South. Open to all disciplines in the human and social sciences and to all nationalities, they reward scientific excellence and human commitment, and promote scientific knowledge, ethical reflection and social innovation to encourage action in favour of the most vulnerable.
In 2025, the awards were presented with the support of the Andorran Red Cross and the Monaco Red Cross.
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