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Adapting essential care programs to Covid-19 pandemic times | Collections | MSF Science Portal

As the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic grips the world, one of its most devastating indirect effects is the disruption to medical services for preventing and treating other life-threatening diseases—especially in countries with already-fragile health systems. For MSF and other global health actors this means not only responding to Covid-19 directly but also assessing its impact on other essential care and then adapting programs so they can keep serving patients despite the enormous obstacles.

In this Collection you will find a selection of published articles and conference content from this year’s MSF Scientific Days 2021 conference content, encompassing a range of approaches, settings and medical challenges—from malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS prevention and care to digital health promotion and sexual and reproductive health.

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Conference Material
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Video

TACTiC - Implementation du nouvel algorithme oms pour le diagnostic de la tuberculose pulmonaire chez les enfants au Niger

Farouk Moussa Mamane O, Sannino L, Alphazazi S, Rabiou D
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
Journal Article
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Research

Shifting to tele‑mental health in humanitarian and crisis settings: an evaluation of Médecins Sans Frontières experience during the COVID‑19 pandemic

Ibragimov K, Palma M, Keane G, Ousley J, Carreño C,  et al.
2022-02-14 • Conflict and Health
2022-02-14 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND
'Tele-Mental Health (MH) services' are an increasingly important way to expand care to underserved groups in low-resource settings. In order to continue providing psychiat...
Conference Material
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Video

Impact of COVID-19 on HIV/ AIDS service delivery in Philippines and Pakistan

Hossain FN
2021-08-26 • MSF Scientific Days Asia 2021
2021-08-26 • MSF Scientific Days Asia 2021
Conference Material
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Slide Presentation

Video/Virtually Observed Therapy for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Eswatini: a rapid response to COVID-19 lockdown measures

Daka M
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation
Conference Material
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Slide Presentation

Overcoming lockdown restrictions by digitising health promotion

Hein J
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation
Conference Material
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Abstract

Feasibility of large-scale mass drug administration for malaria in Angumu health zone, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Sterk E, Newport T, Mahamat TA, Gitahi P, Mandagot JJ,  et al.
2021-05-19 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
2021-05-19 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
INTRODUCTION
Conflict in DRC’s northeast has led to large-scale displacement. MSF has supported around 50,000 internally displaced people, together with the host community, in Angumu...
Journal Article
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Commentary

Tuberculosis preventive therapy for children and adolescents: an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Mohr-Holland E, Douglas-Jones B, Apolisi I, Ngambu N, Mathee S,  et al.
2021-03-01 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
2021-03-01 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
Journal Article
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Commentary

Now is the time: a call for increased access to contraception and safe abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kumar M, Daly M, de Plecker E, Jamet C, McRae M,  et al.
2020-07-20 • BMJ Global Health
2020-07-20 • BMJ Global Health
SUMMARY BOX

• The COVID-19 pandemic has begun to severely limit access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including contraception and safe abortion care (SAC), which have h...

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ASTMH Annual Meeting 2024

ASTMH Annual Meeting 2024

The American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting is an international forum for the exchange of scientific and clinical advances in tropical medicine, hygiene and global health. The scientific content this year is 53% microbe focused, 15% clinically focused, 13% vector focused, 13% globally focused, and 6% intervention focused.

MSF and Epicentre are presenting on access and other challenges for children with visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis, hurdles in malaria diagnostic testing, and ensuring equitable access to healthcare in conversations about financial sustainability.

This collection features research authored by the presenters and other topics highlighted at ASTMH.

MSF Scientific Days International 2024

MSF Scientific Days International 2024
On 16 May people from within and outside MSF will gather in London, joined by online participants from over 100 countries, for this annual ‘conference without borders’ showcasing medical research from fragile and conflict affected settings. All too often the populations MSF and others work with are excluded from the benefits of research. Yet they are the ones that often need these benefits most. So speakers will consider how MSF’s research has impacted the way our projects deliver care, how knowledge gaps can be pivotal to political gatekeeping and to triggering appropriate humanitarian responses, and how identifying best practices and funding innovation are key to improving our capacity to act. Here you can view abstracts for all scientific presentations, which focus on infectious diseases, outbreaks, vaccination, and mortality.
Mental health in humanitarian settings

Mental health in humanitarian settings
Complex humanitarian emergencies and other low-resource settings can be exceedingly difficult places to provide quality mental health (MH) care. Yet these environments also often have a high burden of mental health care needs. This collection presents a set of articles describing how MSF teams have adapted and evaluated ways of bringing clinically impactful MH care to neglected communities and patients—from forcibly displaced populations in northern Nigeria to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and typhoon survivors in the Philippines. It also highlights work on developing new tools for providing clinical supervision and for identifying those patients most in need of care in fragile settings, and on new approaches to delivering MH services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Adapting essential care programs to Covid-19 pandemic times

Adapting essential care programs to Covid-19 pandemic times