Ruef M, Emonet S, Merglen A, Dewez JE, Obama BM, et al.
2024-03-11 • eClinicalMedicine
2024-03-11 • eClinicalMedicine
BACKGROUND The increasing resistance of Enterobacterales to third-generation cephalosporins and carbapenems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a major public health concern. We did a sys...
Kowalski M, Minka Obama B, Catho G, Dewez JE, Merglen A, et al.
2024-03-08 • eClinicalMedicine
2024-03-08 • eClinicalMedicine
BACKGROUND The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been estimated to be the highest in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The current study estimated the proportion of drug-resistant...
Zheng Q, Luquero FJ, Ciglenecki I, Wamala JF, Abubakar A, et al.
2022-09-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2022-09-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND Cholera remains a public health threat but is inequitably distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of standardized reporting and inconsistent outbreak definitions limit...
Balasegaram M, Young H, Chappuis F, Priotto G, Raguenaud ME, et al.
2008-10-21 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-10-21 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
This paper describes the effectiveness of first-line regimens for stage 2 human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense infection in nine Médecins Sans Frontièr...
OBJECTIVE To measure retrospectively mortality among a previously inaccessible population of former UNITA members and their families displaced within Angola, before and after their a...
O'Brien DP, Venis S, Greig J, Shanks L, Ellman T, et al.
2010-06-17 • Conflict and Health
2010-06-17 • Conflict and Health
INTRODUCTION Many countries ravaged by conflict have substantial morbidity and mortality attributed to HIV/AIDS yet HIV treatment is uncommonly available. Universal access to HIV car...
BACKGROUND: Artesunate and amodiaquine (AS&AQ) is at present the world's second most widely used artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). It was necessary to evaluate the efficacy of...
Guthmann JP, Cohuet S, Rigutto C, Fortes F, Saraiva N, et al.
2006-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2006-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In April 2004, 137 children 6-59 months of age with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria (Caala, Central Angola) were randomized to receive either artemether-lumefantrine (Co...
Shroufi A, van Cutsem G, Cambiano V, Bansi-Matharu L, Duncan K, et al.
2019-08-01 • AIDS
2019-08-01 • AIDS
BACKGROUND Many individuals failing first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa never initiate second-line ART or do so after significant delay. For people on ART w...
Seal AJ, Creeke PI, Dibari F, Cheung E, Kyroussis E, et al.
2007-01-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2007-01-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND Outbreaks of pellagra were documented during the civil war in Angola, but no contemporary data on the incidence of pellagra or the prevalence of niacin deficiency were ava...
Burri C, Yeramian PD, Allen JL, Merolle A, Serge KK, et al.
2016-02-16 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2016-02-16 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BACKGROUND Sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis [HAT]) is caused by protozoan parasites and characterized by a chronic progressive course, which may last up to several ye...
Setting: Kavango, a 'moderate' transmission risk region located in north-eastern Namibia, borders Angola, a country with higher malaria transmission levels. Objective: To determine 1) th...
Roddy P, Marchiol A, Jeffs B, Palma PP, Bernal O, et al.
2008-10-04 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-10-04 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In 2005, a Marburg haemorrhagic fever (MHF) outbreak occurred in Uíge province, Angola, which had its epicentre in Uíge municipality. Concurrently, a health facility located a considerab...
Grolla A, Jones SM, Fernando L, Strong JE, Stroher U, et al.
2011-05-24 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2011-05-24 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Background: Marburg virus (MARV), a zoonotic pathogen causing severe hemorrhagic fever in man, has emerged in Angola resulting in the largest outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) ...
From 27 March 2005 onwards, the independent humanitarian medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres, together with the World Health Organization, the Angolan Ministry of Health, and oth...
Creeke PI, Dibari F, Cheung E, van den Briel T, Kyroussis E, et al.
2007-09-01 • Journal of Nutrition
2007-09-01 • Journal of Nutrition
Population surveys for niacin deficiency are normally based on clinical signs or on biochemical measurements of urinary niacin metabolites. Status may also be determined by measurement o...
Ashley EA, Pinoges LLP, Turyakira E, Dorsey G, Checchi F, et al.
2008-08-09 • Malaria Journal
2008-08-09 • Malaria Journal
BACKGROUND: Use of different methods for assessing the efficacy of artemisinin-based combination antimalarial treatments (ACTs) will result in different estimates being reported, with im...
Our objective was to assess the mental health status of pregnant women who are HIV-positive, compared with other groups of pregnant women. We evaluated pregnant HIV-positive women attend...
Priotto G, Chappuis F, Bastard M, Flevaud L, Etard JF
2012-06-05 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2012-06-05 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Human African trypanosomiasis is fatal without treatment. The long post-treatment follow-up (24 months) required to assess cure complicates patient management and is a major obstacle in ...
