INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to limit its spread have severely disrupted health systems and medical care. People living with HIV (PLHIV) suffer from high...
BACKGROUND Post-traumatic osteomyelitis (PTO) is a serious consequence of orthopaedic trauma often complicated with multi-drug resistant (MDR) infections, a major health issue global...
BACKGROUND The Mini-Lab is a simplified and modular bacteriology laboratory being developed by MSF to improve access to microbiology diagnostics and antibiotic resistance surveillanc...
BACKGROUND Between April 2021 and March 2022, a total of 2,180,972 people in Niger received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 1,545,630 people were considered fully vaccinated (i....
BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health problem and growing at an alarming rate, resulting in a rapid deterioration of the effectiveness of antibiotics. The midd...
BACKGROUND Hepatitis E (HEV) is likely the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis and jaundice worldwide. The virus causes high mortality among pregnant women with case fatality ...
The early 2000s saw great advances in malaria control worldwide, in part due to scale-up of proven preventive strategies such as insecticide-treated bednets and a variety of chemoprevent...
CONTEXT People experiencing recurrent homelessness (PEH) or precariously housed have been overexposed to SARS-CoV2 with high morbidity and attack rates. While most guidelines priorit...
WHO recommends mass drug administration (MDA) for malaria in complex emergencies. Angumu health zone in Ituri (DRC) is a highly malaria-endemic area with an overburdened health system an...
Cholera outbreaks in fragile settings are prone to rapid expansion. Case-area targeted interventions (CATI) have been proposed as a rapid and efficient response strategy to halt or subst...
BACKGROUND French nursing homes were deeply affected by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 38% of all residents infected and 5% dying. Yet, little was done to prepare thes...
