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MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts
MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts
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.
Snakebite envenoming: a neglected health crisis
Snakebite envenoming: a neglected health crisis

Every year 2 million or more people fall victim to snakebite envenoming, mostly in poor, rural communities of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Between 83,000—138,000 of them die, while hundreds of thousands more suffer debilitating long-term complications or disabilities.


Although some antivenom medicines are highly effective when used promptly and appropriately, many snakebite victims get no treatment at all. Those who do may receive antivenoms which don’t work against the type of snake that bit them, or were not rigorously tested for safety and effectiveness.


To mark World Snakebite Awareness Day on September 19th, the Collection linked below brings together recent MSF work on this highly neglected disease. Several articles and conference presentations help fill evidence gaps on the burden of disease and its impacts or on treatment outcomes with specific antivenoms. Others examine how to tackle the formidable challenges of availability and affordability, the absence of regulatory oversight for making, testing and registering antivenoms, and the anemic R&D pipeline for new products—all of which impede access for patients to safe, effective treatment tailored to local snake species.

Medical and humanitarian harms of restrictive European migration policies
Medical and humanitarian harms of restrictive European migrat...
Conflict, persecution, poverty, food insecurity and natural disasters—increasingly fueled by climate change—continue to drive migration globally. Yet many wealthy countries are doubling down on hostile policies to prevent people from seeking safety within their borders, thereby subjecting them to a wide range of harms. In a newly-published report MSF focuses on European Union and member state policies that intensify exposure to violence, exploitation, risk of drowning at sea, disease, and lack of access to basic health care and shelter, both within European Union borders and beyond. The Collection linked below presents this report alongside selected publications illustrating the broader context, based on quantitative studies and accounts from MSF patients and medical teams over nearly a decade of operational experience along the European migration route. From violent, squalid detention centers in Libya— where people intercepted by the EU-supported Libyan coast guard are forcibly returned —to perilous Mediterranean crossings in flimsy rubber boats and often abysmal reception centers and camps within the EU, it documents how these policies and practices further harm highly vulnerable people seeking safety and protection.
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A multi-site synthesis on health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic: findings from seven countries

Croft LA
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
Conference Material
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Face mask acceptability and usage after mass distribution in a refugee camp during the Covid-19 pandemic: mixed-methods study

Sadique S
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
Covid-19 in humanitarian settings—modelling, measuring & applying lessons (MSF Scientific Days International 2022)

Covid-19 in humanitarian settings—modelling, measuring & applying lessons (MSF Scientific Days International 2022)

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Facilitating safe discharge through predicting disease progression in moderate Covid-19: development and validation of a prediction model in resource-limited settings

Chandna A
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Retrospective mortality and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in greater Omdurman, Sudan: a population–based cross–sectional survey

Moser W
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Face mask acceptability and usage after mass distribution in a refugee camp during the Covid-19 pandemic: mixed-methods study

Sadique S, Lin YD, Walker SA, Rao B, du Cros PAK,  et al.
2022-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Facilitating safe discharge through predicting disease progression in moderate Covid-19: development and validation of a prediction model in resource-limited settings

Chandna A, PRIORITISE Study Group, Mahajan R, Gautam P, Mwandigha L,  et al.
2022-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Retrospective mortality and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in greater Omdurman, Sudan: population–based cross–sectional survey

Moser W, Hassan Fahal MA, Abualas E, Bedri S, Elsir MT,  et al.
2022-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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Retrospective mortality and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in greater Omdurman, Sudan: population–based cross–sectional survey

Moser W, Hassan Fahal MA, Abualas E, Bedri S, Elsir MT,  et al.
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
In Sudan, since the first Covid-19 case was declared on 13 March 2020, 32,846 confirmed cases were recorded through 10 April 2021. Of these, 72% were registered in Khart...
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Face mask acceptability and usage after mass distribution in a refugee camp during the Covid-19 pandemic: mixed-methods study

Sadique S, Lin YD, Walker SA, Rao B, du Cros PAK,  et al.
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
The crowded conditions within camps for refugees and internally displaced people create risk environments for unmitigated transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Within one such set...
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Facilitating safe discharge through predicting disease progression in moderate COVID-19: development and validation of a prediction model in resource-limited settings

Chandna A, PRIORITISE Study Group, Mahajan R, Gautam P, Mwandigha L,  et al.
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
In locations where few people have received Covid-19 vaccines, health systems remain vulnerable to spikes in SARS-CoV-2 infections. Triage tools, which could include bio...
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A multi-site synthesis on health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic: findings from seven countries

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...
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A multi-site synthesis on health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic: findings from seven countries

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