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MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts | Collections | MSF Science Portal

On 3-4 May in Nairobi, Kenya, MSF gathered staff from our projects with experts from academia, clinical practice and the non-governmental sector to consider key issues in humanitarian paediatrics. These included:

Vaccination and vaccine-preventable diseases: Amid post-Covid-19 global setbacks in child vaccination coverage, sessions spotlighted recent increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks, potential new vaccination strategies and emergency responses, and MSF’s role in vaccine advocacy and catch-up campaigns.

Nutrition: Talks covered the nexus of nutrition with other key conference topics, the latest malnutrition guidance and tools, and MSF’s priorities in nutritional care.

Paediatric HIV: With half of all HIV-positive children globally not receiving antiretroviral therapy, presenters reviewed the latest paediatric testing/treatment recommendations and discussed barriers and potential solutions to implementation, nutritional challenges in children with HIV, and systems strengthening for preventing and monitoring paediatric HIV.

Click below to read the abstracts. And stay tuned for more conference content, coming soon.

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Evaluation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) component of MSF'S HIV project in Guinea, 2022

Bigirimana T, Thind A, Hawa Diallo O, Kourouma A, Burzio C,  et al.
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
In 2016, UNAIDS identified the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) as a significant challenge in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Guinea....
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Empowering transformation: Harnessing child and youth narratives to propel meaningful and sustainable health and well-being in Lesotho

Mairos Ferreira S, Muthengi K, Mohale M, Mokhameleli S, Mathosi L
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
This research emerges from Lesotho's diverse landscapes, where children’s stories remain largely unheard in the realm of health policy. The study aims to ha...
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Formation virtuelle comme catalyser d'amelioration des soins neonataux au centre de sante de reference de douentza au Mali

Rubona F, Ibongu E, Bah AJ, Dianouni F, Wepnyui H
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Le Centre de Sante de Référence de Douentza fait face à des nombreux défis des soins néonataux exacerbés par le contexte d’accès très limités. Plusieurs init...

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Incidence and contextual analysis of neonatal hypothermia at Garan Gamawa Maternal and Child Health Clinic in Kano State, Nigeria, 2022

Danno K, Worku DT, Adjaho I, Ale F, Katuala Y,  et al.
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Hypothermia is a major risk factor for high neonatal mortality. In January, night-time temperatures in Kano State can drop below 20°C. We conducted a study ...
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Reducing neonatal mortality in Abs General Hospital, Yemen

Gonzalez Arias M, Buero MM, Salem Z, Yang SL, Valori AV
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Since 2015, MSF OCBA has supported Abs General Hospital (AGH) with an 88-bed capacity neonatal ward. In the recent years, annual admissions in the service e...
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Stimnut: Innovative community action research on psychosocial stimulation to improve care fo severely malnourished children in Koutiala, Mali

Bossard C, Payotte S, Scarpa G, Diallo AK, Lissouba P,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Early psychosocial stimulation for infants in precarious situations can yield both short- and long-term benefits to cognitive and social development. Compre...
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The implementation of continuous positive airway pressure in a humanitarian content: The experience of Médecins sans Frontières in Mosul, Iraq

Haj-Hassan TA, Amer M, Al-Jubori K, Salim H, Hameed A,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) is recommended for neonates with respiratory distress. CPAP is widely used in high-income countries, but less so ...
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Towards an understanding of resurgent measles outbreaks in Kismayo, Somalia: A mixed method investigation of measles burden and vaccination coverage during a 2020-2021 measles outbreak

Lau DK, Seebacher S, Abdi AM, Bishar S, Nur MB,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Kismayo is a city in southern Somalia and the capital of Jubaland State. In 2020, the Jubaland State Ministry of Health (MoH) recorded 1094 measles cases: a...
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Piloting Tom Brown, a locally produced supplementary therapeutic food for the management of moderate acute malnutrition in Gombe State, Nigeria

Ostrowski JJ, Parikh K, Umar A
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Over 50,000 children in Nigeria’s Gombe state have moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and are at risk of deteriorating to severe acute malnutrition (SAM). An...
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Probiotiques chez les enfants avec malnutrition aiguë sévère non compliquée (PRUSAM): Un essai contrôlé randomisé en République Démocratique du Congo

Mbusa Kambale R, Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa J, Bwija Kasengi J, Burume Zigashane A, Nancy Francisca I,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
CONTEXTE
La malnutrition aigüe sévère (MAS) contribue annuellement au décès d’un million d’enfants. Les diarrhées et la pneumonie sont les principales morbidités associées à ces décè...
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Évaluation des occasions manquées de vaccination (OMV) chez les enfants de 0-59 mois dans 4 établissements de santé de Matoto, Guinée

Shyaka A, Kabongo F, Tolno C, Barry I, Bachy C
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024

CONTEXTE ET OBJECTIFS

Les épidémies de maladies évitables par la vaccination sont récurrentes en Guinée. En 2020, Matoto a enregistré 86% des cas de rougeole rapportés à Conakry...

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Collective adaptive learning on integrating the care pathway for vulnerable infants under 6 months of age and their mothers in South Sudan

Traore-Hebie M, Nasira Boi A, Poni Jackson M, Sasa N, Wendo D,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Globally, one in four infants is born too small or too early and is therefore at increased risk of poor growth and development, ill-health and death. In Sou...
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Decentralised model of care (DMC) in response to a diphtheria outbreak in Kano, Nigeria: Strategy implementation

Juma H, Worku DT, Evboumwan PE, Katuala Y, Mbuyi Y,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Diphtheria is a vaccine preventable disease caused by toxicogenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Since declaration of an outbreak in Nigeria in December 2022,...

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World Hepatitis Day 2022

World Hepatitis Day 2022
Each year hundreds of millions of people suffer from chronic or acute liver disease caused by hepatitis viruses, and over one million die. To mark World Hepatitis Day (July 28th) we bring you a selection of MSF research exploring how to better prevent, identify and treat hepatitis infection in lower-income countries and emergency contexts where the burden is heaviest. For example, in a South Sudanese camp for displaced people—a type of setting where poor sanitation and water quality regularly lead to hepatitis E outbreaks—MSF and the Ministry of Health (MoH) are conducting the world’s first reactive vaccination campaign against this disease, and evaluating the process and outcomes. In Cambodia, MSF and MoH collaborators found that a simplified community-based model of care for hepatitis C was safe and highly effective in diagnosing patients and in curing them with new antiviral drugs. It was also cost-effective, according to studies in several countries and patient populations. And these new drugs were safe and effective even in patients also being treated for drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Neglected tropical diseases in 2023

Neglected tropical diseases in 2023

Each year hundreds of thousands of people die from a neglected tropical disease, while many more suffer serious illness or lifelong disability. Yet as we mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day on 30th January 2023, global progress towards eliminating these diseases is threatened by shifting global health priorities and declining investment in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.


The content collection linked below offers a snapshot of MSF’s work over the past two years on managing some of the most deadly NTDs, finding better tools and models of care for highly affected populations, and advocating for greater access to care and increased global funding. Several authors describe our programs and lessons learned from a decade of treating snakebite victims in sub-Saharan Africa. Two studies evaluate shorter, less toxic treatment for visceral leischmaniasis, while a policy analysis proposes critical steps towards eliminating this horrific disease in East Africa. Last, reports from Sokoto, Nigeria describe the collaborative development of a comprehensive model of care for noma.

Adapting essential care programs to Covid-19 pandemic times

Adapting essential care programs to Covid-19 pandemic times
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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MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts

MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts