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Covid-19 in humanitarian settings—modelling, measuring & applying lessons (MSF Scientific Days International 2022)
Covid-19 in humanitarian settings—modelling, measuring & appl...
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Expanding access to lifesaving new TB tools
Expanding access to lifesaving new TB tools
Many settings with a high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) lack access to advanced diagnostics and to groundbreaking new treatments. The Collection linked below spotlights work by MSF and collaborators to analyze barriers, identify gaps, and accelerate the roll-out of these tools to people whose lives hang in the balance. Several reports examine price, regulatory, and patent obstacles that persist despite considerable public investment into developing many of these tools. Other authors examine critical remaining weaknesses in care pathways—especially in screening and diagnosis, and particularly in children. Several studies describe new strategies that could be part of the solution, from a pilot program in Tajikisttan that trains family caregivers to treat children with DR-TB at home, to a person-centered care model adapted to a conflict zone in Afghanistan. Lastly, initial findings demonstrate that pregnant women—another vulnerable population—can be effectively treated for DR- and multidrug-resistant TB, improving maternal outcomes without harming neonates.
The climate crisis and health in humanitarian settings
The climate crisis and health in humanitarian settings
The climate crisis is also a health and humanitarian crisis, disproportionately impacting people in the world’s most climate-sensitive regions—mainly low- and low-middle income countries with the least capacity to respond. MSF and other humanitarian organizations witness the consequences daily. More frequent, intense weather events and a warming planet contribute to food and water scarcity, more severe and widespread disease outbreaks, and more injuries and preventable deaths. They also drive massive population displacement, with over 32 million people fleeing their homes in 2022 alone due to floods, drought, storms and fire—nearly triple the number displaced by violence and conflict. To mark Earth Day 2024 (22 April) we present a cross-section of work by MSF and collaborators, drawing from a range of data sources and from first-hand experience at our medical projects. Emphasizing the urgency of adapting humanitarian operations to the climate crisis, the collection also explores loss and damage through a health lens, proposes policies and practices for creating climate-resilient health organizations, and advocates for embedding fair, just ethics perspectives into humanitarian action and research on climate.
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Models for community health programmes supported by different actors: mixed methods study, Guinea

Komano MS
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Safe motherhood and childhood in Sierra Leone: key findings from mixed-methods health-seeking behaviour study

Lavilla KM
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Understanding and improving case management of severe febrile illness in highly malaria-endemic settings an observational implementation study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Uganda

Signorell A
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Fixed dose combination drugs for cardiovascular disease in Lebanon

Boulle P
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Models for community health programmes supported by different actors: mixed methods study, Guinea

Komano MS, Niyonzima E, Cisse I, Pagola-Ugarte M, Savane I,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022

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Guinea’s Ministry of Health has proposed a standardized national community health program, including health promotion, case management, and referral; historically h...

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Models for community health programmes supported by different actors: mixed methods study, Guinea

Komano MS, Niyonzima E, Cisse I, Pagola-Ugarte M, Savane I,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Safe motherhood and childhood in Sierra Leone: key findings from mixed-methods health-seeking behaviour study

Lavilla KM, Teal J, Schausberger B, Sankoh M, Conteh AB,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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MSF and the MoHS implemented a partnership model of free and accessible maternal and child healthcare at primary and hospital-level health facilities in Tonkolili Distri...
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Safe motherhood and childhood in Sierra Leone: key findings from mixed-methods health-seeking behaviour study

Lavilla KM, Teal J, Schausberger B, Sankoh M, Conteh AB,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Understanding and improving case management of severe febrile illness in highly malaria-endemic settings: an observational implementation study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Uganda

Signorell A, Hetzel M, Tshefu AK, Omoluabi E, Awor P,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
In sub-Saharan Africa, over 400,000 children die annually from malaria and other preventable illnesses. Little is known about where these children die, from which causes...
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Understanding and improving case management of severe febrile illness in highly malaria-endemic settings an observational implementation study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Uganda

Signorell A, Hetzel M, Tshefu AK, Omoluabi E, Awor P,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Fixed dose combination drugs for cardiovascular disease in Lebanon

Ansbro E, Masri S, Prieto-Merino D, Bahous SA, Molfino L,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disability globally, including in humanitarian contexts. Fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs are cost-effec...
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Fixed dose combination drugs for cardiovascular disease in Lebanon

Ansbro E, Masri S, Prieto-Merino D, Bahous SA, Molfino L,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
Humanitarian action & health systems (MSF Scientific Days International 2022)

Humanitarian action & health systems (MSF Scientific Days International 2022)