University and tropical medicines.

Two "tropical medicine" coexist: a "clinical tropical medicine" concerning imported tropical diseases in North countries who is worked at clinical dep artments and travellers clinics and a multidisciplinary "international heal th", 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 Fren ch-speaking area. The scattering of practitioners, teachers and research wo rkers in the midst of various French institutions and distance from field l imit 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 agen cy.