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Ndayisaba R, Colombe S, Van Bortel W, Sinarinzi P, Nzomukunda Y, et al.

2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024

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Niyonzima F, Kamosi HM, Soro J, Ntihabose O, Hehadji D, et al.

2023-08-01 • Public Health Action

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En 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières a ouvert un Centre de Traumatologie Arche Kigobe à Bujumbura, Burundi, pour prise en charge des victimes des violences, et a élargi en 201...

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Gohy B, Opava CH, von Schreeb J, Van den Bergh R, Brus A, et al.

2022-12-14 • PLOS Global Public Health

A standardized set of measures to assess functioning after trauma in humanitarian settings has been called for. The Activity Independence Measure for Trauma (AIM-T) is a clinician-rated ...

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Van Bortel W, Mariën J, Jacobs BKM, Sinzinkayo D, Sinarinzi P, et al.

2022-12-01 • BMJ Global Health

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Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are one of the key interventions in the global fight against malaria. Since 2014, mass distribution campaigns of LLINs aim for unive...

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de Plecker E, Zachariah R, Kumar AMV, Trelles M, Caluwaerts C, et al.

2017-02-07 • PLOS One

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In a rural district hospital in Burundi offering Emergency Obstetric care-(EmOC), we assessed the a) characteristics of women at risk of, or with an obstetric complication...

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O'Brien DP, Venis S, Greig J, Shanks L, Ellman T, et al.

2010-06-17 • Conflict and Health

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Many countries ravaged by conflict have substantial morbidity and mortality attributed to HIV/AIDS yet HIV treatment is uncommonly available. Universal access to HIV car...

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Gohy B, Brodin N, Musambi M, Mafuko JM, Ndiramiye E, et al.

2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research

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Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, van den Boogaard W, Vandeborne A, et al.

2013-08-21 • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

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In Burundi, the annual incidence of obstetric fistula is estimated to be 0.2-0.5% of all deliveries, with 1000-2000 new cases per year. Despite this relatively high incide...

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Gil Cuesta J, Trelles M, Naseer A, Momin A, Ngabo Mulamira L, et al.

2019-09-01 • Public Health Action

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Conflicts frequently occur in countries with high maternal and neonatal mortality and can aggravate difficulties accessing emergency care. No literature is available on ...

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Case Report/Series

Haddara MM, Haberisoni JB, Trelles M, Gohou JP, Christella K, et al.

2020-08-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports

Hippopotamus is one of the most-loved animals in Africa, yet it is aggressive and dangerous. The co-existence of humans in close proximity to their natural habitat increases the probabil...

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Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, van den Boogaard W, Nyandwi G, et al.

2013-02-18 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the reduction in maternal mortality associated with the emergency obstetric care provided by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and to compare this to the fifth Mille...

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Ponsar F, Tayler-Smith K, Philips M, Gerard S, Van Herp M, et al.

2011-05-19 • International Health

Although user fees are a common form of healthcare financing in resource-poor countries, there is growing consensus that their use compromises health service utilisation and population h...

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Protopopoff N, Verhaeghen K, Van Bortel W, Roelants P, Marcotty T, et al.

2008-12-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: In Burundi, the occurrence of the knock down resistance (kdr) mutation in Anopheles gambiae sensu lato (s.l.) was determined for six consecutive years within the ...

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Zuniga I, Van der Bergh R, Ndelema B, Bulckaert D, Manzi M, et al.

2013-12-21 • Public Health Action

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A Médecins Sans Frontières emergency obstetric and neonatal care facility specialising as a referral centre for three districts for women with complications during pregnancy ...

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Chu KM, Ford NP, Trelles M

2010-08-01 • Archives of Surgery/JAMA Surgery

OBJECTIVE: To determine operative mortality in surgical programs from resource-limited settings. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A retrospective cohort study of 17 surgical programs i...

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Shanks L, Klarkowiski D, O'Brien DP

2013-03-20 • PLOS One

Access to HIV diagnosis is life-saving; however the use of rapid diagnostic tests in combination is vulnerable to wrongly diagnosing HIV infection when both screening tests give a false ...

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van den Boogaard W, Manzi M, de Plecker E, Caluwaerts C, Caluwaerts S, et al.

2016-06-21 • Public Health Action

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A caesarean section (C-section) is a life-saving emergency intervention. Avoiding pregnancies for at least 24 months after a C-section is important to prevent uterine rupture...

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Protopopoff N, Van Bortel W, Speybroeck N, Van Geertruyden JP, Baza D, et al.

2009-11-25 • PLOS One

INTRODUCTION: Malaria is re-emerging in most of the African highlands exposing the non immune population to deadly epidemics. A better understanding of the factors impacting transmission...

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De Costa J, Briskin E, Trelles M, Dominguez LB, Nyaruhirira I, et al.

2022-03-29 • Surgery

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Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is known for its work providing surgical care for victims of violent trauma (VT) in conflict zones. However, the trauma centers also deal ...

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Mafuko JM

2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation

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Effectiveness of indoor residual spraying on malaria morbidity in Kinyinya and Ryansoro health districts, Burundi

Facteurs associés à une issue défavorable chez les brûlés hospitalisés

Monitoring independence in daily life activities after trauma in humanitarian settings: Item reduction and assessment of content validity of the Activity Independence Measure-Trauma (AIM-T)

Long-lasting insecticidal nets provide protection against malaria for only a single year in Burundi, an African highland setting with marked malaria seasonality

Emergency obstetric care in a rural district of Burundi: What are the surgical needs?

Provision of antiretroviral treatment in conflict settings: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

Evaluation of an outcome measure for patients in humanitarian settings after trauma: the Activity Independence Measure-Trauma (AIM-T)

Obstetric fistula in Burundi: a comprehensive approach to managing women with this neglected disease

Does the presence of conflict affect maternal and neonatal mortality during Caesarean sections?

Hippopotamus bite morbidity: a report of 11 cases from Burundi

Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality in rural Africa: an experience from Burundi

No cash, no care: how user fees endanger health—lessons learnt regarding financial barriers to healthcare services in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Haiti and Mali

A significant increase in kdr in Anopheles gambiae is associated with an intensive vector control intervention in Burundi highlands

Characteristics and mortality of neonates in an emergency obstetric and neonatal care facility, rural Burundi

Operative mortality in resource-limited settings: the experience of Medecins Sans Frontieres in 13 countries

False positive HIV diagnoses in resource limited settings: operational lessons learned for HIV programmes

Caesarean sections in rural Burundi: how well are mothers doing two years on?

Ranking malaria risk factors to guide malaria control efforts in African highlands

The burden of road traffic accidents in trauma in low-resource settings: a retrospective cohort analysis of patient admissions to 2 Médecins Sans Frontières trauma facilities

Revision of the epidemiological situation of malaria in Burundi and the potential implications for future control