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MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts | Collections | MSF Science Portal

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.

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Evaluation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) component of MSF'S HIV project in Guinea, 2022

Bigirimana T, Thind A, Hawa Diallo O, Kourouma A, Burzio C,  et al.
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
In 2016, UNAIDS identified the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) as a significant challenge in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Guinea....
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Empowering transformation: Harnessing child and youth narratives to propel meaningful and sustainable health and well-being in Lesotho

Mairos Ferreira S, Muthengi K, Mohale M, Mokhameleli S, Mathosi L
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
This research emerges from Lesotho's diverse landscapes, where children’s stories remain largely unheard in the realm of health policy. The study aims to ha...
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Formation virtuelle comme catalyser d'amelioration des soins neonataux au centre de sante de reference de douentza au Mali

Rubona F, Ibongu E, Bah AJ, Dianouni F, Wepnyui H
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Le Centre de Sante de Référence de Douentza fait face à des nombreux défis des soins néonataux exacerbés par le contexte d’accès très limités. Plusieurs init...

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Incidence and contextual analysis of neonatal hypothermia at Garan Gamawa Maternal and Child Health Clinic in Kano State, Nigeria, 2022

Danno K, Worku DT, Adjaho I, Ale F, Katuala Y,  et al.
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Hypothermia is a major risk factor for high neonatal mortality. In January, night-time temperatures in Kano State can drop below 20°C. We conducted a study ...
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Reducing neonatal mortality in Abs General Hospital, Yemen

Gonzalez Arias M, Buero MM, Salem Z, Yang SL, Valori AV
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Since 2015, MSF OCBA has supported Abs General Hospital (AGH) with an 88-bed capacity neonatal ward. In the recent years, annual admissions in the service e...
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Stimnut: Innovative community action research on psychosocial stimulation to improve care fo severely malnourished children in Koutiala, Mali

Bossard C, Payotte S, Scarpa G, Diallo AK, Lissouba P,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Early psychosocial stimulation for infants in precarious situations can yield both short- and long-term benefits to cognitive and social development. Compre...
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The implementation of continuous positive airway pressure in a humanitarian content: The experience of Médecins sans Frontières in Mosul, Iraq

Haj-Hassan TA, Amer M, Al-Jubori K, Salim H, Hameed A,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) is recommended for neonates with respiratory distress. CPAP is widely used in high-income countries, but less so ...
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Towards an understanding of resurgent measles outbreaks in Kismayo, Somalia: A mixed method investigation of measles burden and vaccination coverage during a 2020-2021 measles outbreak

Lau DK, Seebacher S, Abdi AM, Bishar S, Nur MB,  et al.
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...
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Piloting Tom Brown, a locally produced supplementary therapeutic food for the management of moderate acute malnutrition in Gombe State, Nigeria

Ostrowski JJ, Parikh K, Umar A
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Over 50,000 children in Nigeria’s Gombe state have moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and are at risk of deteriorating to severe acute malnutrition (SAM). An...
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Probiotiques chez les enfants avec malnutrition aiguë sévère non compliquée (PRUSAM): Un essai contrôlé randomisé en République Démocratique du Congo

Mbusa Kambale R, Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa J, Bwija Kasengi J, Burume Zigashane A, Nancy Francisca I,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
CONTEXTE
La malnutrition aigüe sévère (MAS) contribue annuellement au décès d’un million d’enfants. Les diarrhées et la pneumonie sont les principales morbidités associées à ces décè...
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Évaluation des occasions manquées de vaccination (OMV) chez les enfants de 0-59 mois dans 4 établissements de santé de Matoto, Guinée

Shyaka A, Kabongo F, Tolno C, Barry I, Bachy C
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024

CONTEXTE ET OBJECTIFS

Les épidémies de maladies évitables par la vaccination sont récurrentes en Guinée. En 2020, Matoto a enregistré 86% des cas de rougeole rapportés à Conakry...

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Collective adaptive learning on integrating the care pathway for vulnerable infants under 6 months of age and their mothers in South Sudan

Traore-Hebie M, Nasira Boi A, Poni Jackson M, Sasa N, Wendo D,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Globally, one in four infants is born too small or too early and is therefore at increased risk of poor growth and development, ill-health and death. In Sou...
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Decentralised model of care (DMC) in response to a diphtheria outbreak in Kano, Nigeria: Strategy implementation

Juma H, Worku DT, Evboumwan PE, Katuala Y, Mbuyi Y,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Diphtheria is a vaccine preventable disease caused by toxicogenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Since declaration of an outbreak in Nigeria in December 2022,...

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MSF Scientific Days International 2024

MSF Scientific Days International 2024
On 16 May people from within and outside MSF will gather in London, joined by online participants from over 100 countries, for this annual ‘conference without borders’ showcasing medical research from fragile and conflict affected settings. All too often the populations MSF and others work with are excluded from the benefits of research. Yet they are the ones that often need these benefits most. So speakers will consider how MSF’s research has impacted the way our projects deliver care, how knowledge gaps can be pivotal to political gatekeeping and to triggering appropriate humanitarian responses, and how identifying best practices and funding innovation are key to improving our capacity to act. Here you can view abstracts for all scientific presentations, which focus on infectious diseases, outbreaks, vaccination, and mortality.
Climate change and health

Climate change and health
The climate crisis is also a health and humanitarian crisis, disproportionately impacting people in the world’s most climate-sensitive regions—mainly low- and low-middle income countries with the least capacity to respond. MSF and other humanitarian organizations witness the consequences daily. More frequent, intense weather events and a warming planet contribute to food and water scarcity, more severe and widespread disease outbreaks, and more injuries and preventable deaths. They also drive massive population displacement, with over 32 million people fleeing their homes in 2022 alone due to floods, drought, storms and fire—nearly triple the number displaced by violence and conflict. As global leaders convene in Dubai for the UN climate conference (COP28, 30 Nov-12 Dec 2023) we present this cross-section of work by MSF and collaborators, drawing from first-hand experience at our medical projects. Emphasizing the urgency of adapting humanitarian operations to the climate crisis, the collection also explores loss and damage through a health lens, proposes policies and practices for creating climate-resilient health organizations, and advocates for embedding fair, just ethics perspectives into humanitarian action and research on climate.
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.

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MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts

MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts