Call to Action / Appel à l’action

EN: This call to action was initially launched in Dakar on 8 October 2026 during the Second Regional Noma Roundtable ‘United to Address Noma’, organised by the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene of Senegal and Elysium, the Noma Survivors’ Association, in partnership with La Chaîne de l’Espoir, supported by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.

FR: Cet appel à l’action a été initialement lancé à Dakar le 8 octobre 2026, dans le cadre de la Deuxième table ronde régionale « Solidaires contre le noma », organisée par le ministère de la Santé et de l’Hygiène publique du Sénégal et Elysium, l’association des survivants du noma, en partenariat avec la Chaîne de l’Espoir, soutenus par l’Agence Française de Développement et l’Institut Tropical et de Santé Publique Suisse.

  • Support survivors

    Support survivors

  • Raise awareness

    Raise awareness

  • Promote an holistic approach

    Promote an holistic approach

Claire Jeantet

Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Claire Jeantet is passionate about creating content with meaning and depth. She co-founded in 2008 the French production company Inediz along with Fabrice Catérini. Focused on long-term visual work, she captures the daily lives of resilient people transformed by a key moment. Believing in the power of stories to change the world, she collaborates with media, international organizations and NGOs. Her main field of interest is social issues, with a focus on refugees, women’s rights and access to health care. 

Claire met with Mulikat Okanlawon in 2016 in Sokoto, Nigeria and Mulikat is featured in the two documentaries that Claire co-directed and produced about the journey of noma survivors, Restoring Dignity (52 min.) and Surviving Noma (4 min.30). Translated in ten languages, her films on noma have been screened in over 100 international events. They have been selected in 26 festivals and won several awards.

After managing Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without borders (MSF) noma campaign successfully, Claire is still very much involved in raising awareness on this preventable and treatable disease and advancing the advocacy agenda. In addition to her collaboration with Elysium’s co-founder, she is involved in the collaborative project ‘The Politics of Disease Framing: Surviving and Overcoming Neglect’ together with other researchers from the Center for Applied Human Rights at the University of York and has been collaborating closely with other researchers and organisations working on noma.