Founded in 2018, Drep.Afrique is an association of general interest whose purpose is to inform and act against sickle-cell anaemia. Its aim is to take action and initiate concrete projects to prevent, detect, treat and increase the life expectancy of people affected by sickle cell anaemia, where this disease strikes the hardest, mainly on the African continent.
Our history
Board of Directors which consists of volunteers
Constant Vodouhê
Vice-President
Robert Hue
President
Constant Vodouhê
Vice-President
Diane Larue-Nicoué-Béglah
Secretary-General
Cédric Morvan
Treasurer
Michèle Bellet-Edimo
Member - Partnership Delegate
Anne-Marie Odena
Development strategy manager
Assa Niakate
Volunteer member
Bérangère Koehl
Volunteer member
Seynabou Fall
Volunteer member
Nina Baka
Founding member
Isabelle Mazeline
Volunteer member
Employee of the NGO
Sébastien Jan
Chargé de Mission
Sébastien Jan
Chargé de Mission
Scientific Council
The Scientific Council of Drep.Afrique is made up of recognized specialists in sickle cell disease in Africa and France: doctors, researchers but also pharmacists and nurses. All of them are, of course, volunteers.
Coordinated by Dr Jean-Benoît Arlet, its role is to suggest the priority axes for rapid and concrete action against this disease in Africa and to ensure follow-up.
The board will make decisions on all matters related to the scientific part of the two flagship actions of the project : the training of doctors, caregivers, other health professionals and families, and access to essential drugs for disease control.
Jean-Benoit Arlet
Doctor, researcher. Scientific Board Coordinator, France.
Charlotte Eposse Ekoube
Doctor, Researcher, Cameroon.
Dapa Diallo
Doctor, Researcher, Mali.
Françoise Bernaudin
Doctor, Researcher, France.
Anne Corbasson
Nurse, France.
Ibrahima Diagne
Pediatrician specialized in Pediatric Hematology, Senegal.
Binta Coulibaly
Pharmacist, France.
Eléonore Kafando
Doctor, Researcher,
Burkina Faso.
Frédéric Galacteros
Doctor, Researcher,
France.
Léon Tshilolo
Doctor, Researcher,
RD Congo.
Olivier Hermine
Doctor, Researcher, France.
Constant Vodouhê
Researcher, Benin.
Yannick Jaffré
Professor of African Studies, Anthropology of the body and disease, France.
Ahoefa Vovor
Doctor, Researcher, Togo.
Mariane De Montalembert
Doctor, Researcher, France.
Brigitte Ranque
Doctor, Researcher, France.
Saliou Diop
Doctor, Researcher,
Professor of hematology,
Senegal
Honorary Committee
The Drep.Afrique Honorary Committee is composed of prestigious personalities from the world of arts, sciences, culture and sport who support the action undertaken by our association to better publicize, treat and reverse the scourge of sickle cell disease, particularly in Africa where millions of children are affected.
Bara Ndiaye
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Ontology of the Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar)
Barbara Hendricks
Lyric artist
UNHCR (UN) Honorary Ambassador for life
Erik Orsenna
Writer
Member of the French Academy
Rokia Traoré
Malian politician-songwriter
Ismaël Lô
Senegalese artist-musician, songwriter-arranger
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Member of the French Davis Cup tennis team from 2008 to 2022
Winner of 18 singles titles and Olympic doubles vice-champion
Clarisse Agbegnenou
Captain of the French women’s judo team
Quintuple world champion and double olympic champion
Gil Tchernia
Professor of hematology
Marie-Paule Kieny
Chair of the Board of Directors for the Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi)
Denis Mukwege
Gynecologist and human rights activist
Kino-Congolais
Nobel Peace Prize in 2018
Yves Coppens
Paleontologist
Emeritus professor at the Collège de France (1934-2022)