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High mortality and violence among refugees and returnees from West Darfur, Sudan arriving in Chad, 2023: results from three retrospective mortality surveys

Simons E, Ouedraogo P, Garnier C, Nicolet C, Sayyad-Hilario J,  et al.
2025-06-01 • BMJ Global Health
2025-06-01 • BMJ Global Health

INTRODUCTION

Fighting erupted on 15 April 2023 in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. By September 2023, more than 420 000 people ...

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Increased treatment coverage, reduced incidence of severe acute malnutrition with the OptiMA protocol: a prospective observational cohort in rural Chad

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PaED Talk - Voices from MSF projects: 'Paediatrics without pain', Moissala, Chad

Ngamba TL
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
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Implementation quality of seasonal malaria chemoprevention: a qualitative study exploring the perspectives of caregivers and community distributors in Burkina Faso and Chad

Lasmi K
2022-11-29 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
2022-11-29 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
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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
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Phelan K, Sana I, Alitanou R, Daures M, Coulibaly W,  et al.
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025

High mortality and violence among refugees and returnees from West Darfur, Sudan arriving in Chad, 2023: results from three retrospective mortality surveys

Simons E, Grellety E
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024

BACKGROUND

Fighting erupted on 15 April 2023 in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. By September 2023, more than 420,000 people had fled to Chad. T...

Enquête de mortalité, de prévalence nutritionnelle et de couverture vaccinale rougeole sur 3 camps de réfugiés soudanais et de retournés tchadiens à l’est du Tchad

Ouedraogo P, Simons E, Grellety E
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024

Les medicaments de la CPS sous la loupe

Grandesso F, Ouedraogo P, Issakha Diar MS, Hilario JS, Kouassi F,  et al.
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024

How age and sex affect treatment outcomes for children with severe malnutrition: A multi-country secondary data analysis

Thurstans S, Opondo C, Bailey J, Stobaugh H, Loddo F,  et al.
2023-12-04 • Maternal and Child Nutrition
2023-12-04 • Maternal and Child Nutrition
Age and sex influence the risk of childhood wasting. We aimed to determine if wasting treatment outcomes differ by age and sex in children under 5 years, enroled in therapeutic and suppl...

Cross-sectional retrospective mortality, nutrition and measles vaccination coverage surveys among Sudanese refugees and Chadian returnees in Toumtouma, Ourang and Arkoum camps, Ouaddaï province, Chad (August-September 2023)

Ouedraogo P, Simons E, Grellety E
2023-11-01
2023-11-01
INTRODUCTION
Since April 15, 2023, fighting erupted in Sudan between the army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command ...

Cholera outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa during 2010-2019: a descriptive analysis

Zheng Q, Luquero FJ, Ciglenecki I, Wamala JF, Abubakar A,  et al.
2022-09-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2022-09-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Cholera remains a public health threat but is inequitably distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of standardized reporting and inconsistent outbreak definitions limit...

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...

Use of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) to estimate vaccination coverage helps guide future vaccination efforts

Alberti KP, Guthmann JP, Fermon F, Nargaye KD, Grais RF
2008-03-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-03-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Inadequate evaluation of vaccine coverage after mass vaccination campaigns, such as used in national measles control programmes, can lead to inappropriate public health responses. Overes...

Seroprevalence and risk factors of recent infection with hepatitis E virus during an acute outbreak in an urban setting in Chad, 2017

Vernier L, Lenglet AD, Hogema B, Moussa AM, Ariti C,  et al.
2018-06-26 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2018-06-26 • BMC Infectious Diseases
From September 2016-April 2017, Am Timan, Chad, experienced a large HEV outbreak in an urban setting with a limited impact in terms of morbidity and mortality. To better understand HEV e...

A cluster randomized non-inferiority field trial on the immunogenicity and safety of tetanus toxoid vaccine kept in controlled temperature chain compared to cold chain

Juan-Giner A, Domicent C, Langendorf C, Roper M, Baoundoh P,  et al.
2014-09-23 • Vaccine
2014-09-23 • Vaccine
In resource-poor settings, cold chain requirements present barriers for vaccine delivery. We evaluated the immunogenicity and safety of tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccine in "Controlled Tempera...

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

Ponsar F, Tayler-Smith K, Philips M, Gerard S, Van Herp M,  et al.
2011-05-19 • International Health
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...

Genetic heterogeneity of hepatitis E virus in Darfur, Sudan, and neighboring Chad

Nicand E, Armstrong GL, Enouf V, Guthmann JP, Guerin JP,  et al.
2005-12-01 • Journal of Medical Virology
2005-12-01 • Journal of Medical Virology
The within-outbreak diversity of hepatitis E virus (HEV) was studied during the outbreak of hepatitis E that occurred in Sudan in 2004. Specimens were collected from internally displaced...

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

Chu KM, Ford NP, Trelles M
2010-08-01 • Archives of Surgery/JAMA Surgery
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...

Implementation quality of seasonal malaria chemoprevention: a qualitative study exploring the perspectives of caregivers and community distributors in Burkina Faso and Chad

Lasmi K, Elimian K, Baker K
2022-11-26 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
2022-11-26 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
BACKGROUND AND AIMS
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a preventive treatment for malaria, targeting children aged 3 to 59 months. Since 2012, the World Health Organization re...

Integration of traditional healers in Human African Trypanosomiasis case finding in Central Africa: a quasi-experimental study

Kwedi Nolna S, Ntone R, Fouda Mbarga N, Mbainda S, Mutangala W,  et al.
2020-11-17 • Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
2020-11-17 • Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
BACKGROUND
Based on the premise that Africans in rural areas seek health care from traditional healers, this study investigated a collaborative model between traditional healers and...