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2025-08-29 • PLOS Global Public Health
2025-08-29 • PLOS Global Public Health
There was a protracted measles outbreak in Kismayo, Somalia between 2020–2021. The outbreak persisted despite&nbs...
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2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
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2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
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2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
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2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
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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...
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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2023-11-23 • Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
2023-11-23 • Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
While health misinformation is important to address in humanitarian settings, over-focusing on it can obfuscate a more holistic understanding of a community’s needs in a crisis. Through ...
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2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
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2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
INTRODUCTION
Despite a likely high burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in humanitarian crises, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV’s) are rarely used in such settin...
Despite a likely high burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in humanitarian crises, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV’s) are rarely used in such settin...
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2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
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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...
Cholera remains a public health threat but is inequitably distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of standardized reporting and inconsistent outbreak definitions limit...
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2013-09-29 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2013-09-29 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides TB treatment in Galkayo and Marere in Somalia. MSF international supervisory staff withdrew in 2008 owing to insecurity but maintained daily commu...
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2019-09-01 • Public Health Action
2019-09-01 • Public Health Action
INTRODUCTION
Conflicts frequently occur in countries with high maternal and neonatal mortality and can aggravate difficulties accessing emergency care. No literature is available on ...
Conflicts frequently occur in countries with high maternal and neonatal mortality and can aggravate difficulties accessing emergency care. No literature is available on ...
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2012-03-05 • BMJ Opinion (blog)
2012-03-05 • BMJ Opinion (blog)
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2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
Between 2020 and 2021, MSF’s social sciences team designed and supported implementation of qualitative assessments to better understand community-level outbreak response...
Between 2020 and 2021, MSF’s social sciences team designed and supported implementation of qualitative assessments to better understand community-level outbreak response...
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2008-02-07 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-02-07 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was observed in children in Bakool region, Somalia, an area where VL has not been reported before. We describe the extent of the problem in this war- and fami...
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2016-04-28 • Refugee Survey Quarterly
2016-04-28 • Refugee Survey Quarterly
Large numbers of people continue to flee conflict and instability, moving along human smuggling routes, hiding in transit cities, and getting locked up in detention centres in the proces...
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2014-11-06 • BMC Health Services Research
2014-11-06 • BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundIn resource-poor settings, where health systems are frequently stretched to their capacity, access to emergency care is often limited. Triage systems have been proposed as a to...
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2010-08-01 • Archives of Surgery/JAMA Surgery
2010-08-01 • Archives of Surgery/JAMA Surgery
OBJECTIVE: To determine operative mortality in surgical programs from resource-limited settings. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A retrospective cohort study of 17 surgical programs i...