MacVinish S, van Leeuwen C, Hoetjes M, Aoki Y, Foley D, et al.
2023-02-07 • Conflict and Health
2023-02-07 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND Thalassaemia affects many families in Northeast Syria, an area devastated by over a decade of conflict which has significantly impacted their health system. People with th...
Al Laham D, Ali E, Moussally K, Nahas N, Alameddine A, et al.
2020-05-13 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020
2020-05-13 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020
• Since 2011, the conflict in Syria has had a huge impact on its population, many of whom are now displaced • The Syrian crisis has not only affected the physical health of refugees,...
Vernier L, Cramond V, Hoetjes M, Lenglet AD, Hoare T
2019-07-11 • Conflict and Health
2019-07-11 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND:
War in Syria has lasted for more than eight years, causing population displacement, collapse of medical and public health services, extensive violence and countless deat...
Gil Cuesta J, Trelles M, Naseer A, Momin A, Ngabo Mulamira L, et al.
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 ...
Croft LA, Puig-García M, Silver C, Pearlman J, Stellmach DUS, et al.
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...
Kanapathipillai R, Malou N, Hopman J, Bowman C, Yousef N, et al.
2019-04-10 • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
2019-04-10 • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has designed context-adapted antibiotic resistance (ABR) responses in countries across the Middle East. There, some health systems have been severely damag...
OKeeffe J, Vernier L, Cramond V, Majeed S, Carrion Martin AI, et al.
2019-06-20 • Conflict and Health
2019-06-20 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND:
In June 2017, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched a military operation to retake the city of Raqqa, Syria, from the so-called Islamic State. The city...
Alga A, Wong S, Shoaib M, Lundgren KC, Giske CG, et al.
2018-05-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2018-05-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
Armed conflicts are a major contributor to injury and death globally. Conflict-related injuries are associated with a high risk of wound infection, but it is unknown to what extent infec...
Ansbro É, Garry S, Karir V, Reddy A, Jobanputra K, et al.
2020-07-04 • Health Policy and Planning
2020-07-04 • Health Policy and Planning
The Syrian conflict has caused enormous displacement of a population with a high non-communicable disease (NCD) burden into surrounding countries, overwhelming health systems’ NCD care c...
