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Power & communities (MSF Scientific Days International 2022)

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TB-PRACTECAL Trial—Evidence for a shorter, safer, more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis

TB-PRACTECAL Trial—Evidence for a shorter, safer, more effect...
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains an especially deadly form of the ancient scourge of TB, while current treatments are long, toxic, and ineffective for half of all patients. Aiming to change this unacceptable status quo, in the mid-2010’s MSF and partners launched three clinical trials to test novel regimens containing the first new TB drugs in decades. On 22 December 2022 the New England Journal of Medicine published findings from TB-PRACTECAL, a three-country randomized controlled trial, showing that a shorter regimen is safer and cured 89% of DR-TB patients, compared with 52% on the standard of care. These findings have already been incorporated into the World Health Organization’s new TB treatment guidelines. A separate study shows that the new regimen is also more cost-effective. Alongside these results the content collection linked below highlights other aspects of the trial, from community engagement strategies that helped shape TB-PRACTECAL to setbacks arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. It also examines urgent challenges in scaling up access to these life-saving drugs, including affordability and patent barriers.
The endTB project

The endTB project
Diabetes care in humanitarian settings

Diabetes care in humanitarian settings
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The endTB project aims to find shorter, less toxic and more effective treatments for ‘multidrug-resistant TB’ (MDR-TB) through:

  • access to new drugs
  • two clinical trials
  • advocacy at national and global levels

Covering 18 countries, the project is a partnership between Partners In Health, Médecins Sans Frontières, Interactive Research & Development and financial partners Unitaid and the Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) of MSF. This collection contains the final and intermediate results of the studies, advocacy reports, and study presentations. For more information about the endTB project, visit https://endtb.org/.

Diabetes affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, a large majority of them living in low- and middle-income countries. Yet finding effective strategies, tools and policies for effectively managing this chronic illness—especially amid war, displacement or exclusion from care—is a neglected area of humanitarian medicine. Here we present a cross-section of work on this front by MSF and collaborators. Several studies assess the shift towards community-based, nurse-led models of care in rural settings. Others explore obstacles to diabetes care for war refugees living in camps in Jordan or Lebanon, highlighting how health programs can adapt to their needs. The demonstration that insulin retains potency for 30 days if cooled without refrigeration is opening doors to more patient self-management, as a case study in remote South Sudan shows. At the same time, MSF and others call for regulatory and financing policies that make diabetes medications and supplies cheaper, better adapted to humanitarian settings, and far more available to patients whose lives depend on them.
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“We tell them to sit, listen to information, and take their medicine": perceptions, practices, and potential for community engagement within MSF

Schittecatte G
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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“Their suffering also plagues us”: moral experiences of MSF staff providing end-of-life care in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Yantzi R
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Comparative evaluation of event-based and indicator-based and indicator-based components of MSF’s “Tea Team Surveillance System,” Somali Region, Ethiopia

Ali Dubad B
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Why mothers give birth at home: exploration of Rohingya refugees’ perceptions, experiences, and expectations regarding maternity services in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Hadiuzzaman M
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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“Where my pocket can afford is where I will take my child:” the influence of structural factors on health-seeking behaviour, Sierra Leone

Burtscher D
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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“We tell them to sit, listen to information, and take their medicine”: perceptions, practices, and potential for community engagement within MSF

Schittecatte G, Pellechia U, Meudec M, Vanlerberghe V
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
Community engagement (CE) rose to prominence with the Alma Ata Declaration in 1978, and remains a concept lauded by global health actors, including MSF. CE is often desc...
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“We tell them to sit, listen to information, and take their medicine”: perceptions, practices, and potential for community engagement within MSF

Schittecatte G, Pellechia U, Meudec M, Vanlerberghe V
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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“Their suffering also plagues us”: moral experiences of MSF staff providing end-of-life care in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Yantzi R, Hadiuzzaman M, Gupta PS, Lamrous A, Pringle J,  et al.
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
855,000 Rohingya refugees live in overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh where MSF operates Goyalmara Hospital, the only dedicated pediatric and neonatal hospital ...
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“Their suffering also plagues us”: moral experiences of MSF staff providing end-of-life care in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Yantzi R, Hadiuzzaman M, Gupta PS, Lamrous A, Pringle J,  et al.
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Comparative evaluation of event-based and indicator-based components of MSF’s “Tea Team Surveillance System,” Somali Region, Ethiopia

Ali Dubad B, Baertlein L, Piening T, Chindong I, Sahelie B,  et al.
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
The Somali Region is one of the least developed regions of Ethiopia, with low coverage of healthcare services and recurrent disease outbreaks, floods, and malnutrition e...
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Comparative evaluation of event-based and indicator-based components of MSF’s “Tea Team Surveillance System,” Somali Region, Ethiopia

Ali Dubad B, Baertlein L, Piening T, Chindong I, Sahelie B,  et al.
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Why mothers give birth at home: exploration of Rohingya refugees’ perceptions, experiences, and expectations regarding maternity services in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Hadiuzzaman M, Yantzi R, van den Boogaard W, Lim SY, Gupta PS,  et al.
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
Maternal health indicators remain unacceptably poor within the densely populated Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. With a high prevalence of home births...
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Why mothers give birth at home: exploration of Rohingya refugees’ perceptions, experiences, and expectations regarding maternity services in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Hadiuzzaman M, Yantzi R, van den Boogaard W, Lim SY, Gupta PS,  et al.
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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“Where my pocket can afford is where I will take my child:” the influence of structural factors on health-seeking behaviour, Sierra Leone

Burtscher D, Maukner AC, Piatti M, Verschuere J, Aruna TM,  et al.
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
In Sierra Leone, maternal and under-five mortality rates are among the highest in the world. In 2010, the government of Sierra Leone adopted the Free Healthcare Initiati...
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“Where my pocket can afford is where I will take my child:” the influence of structural factors on health-seeking behaviour, Sierra Leone

Burtscher D, Maukner AC, Piatti M, Verschuere J, Aruna TM,  et al.
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-12 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022