Clinical trials in settings with intermittent or non-existent internet and power connectivity, for example ...
BACKGROUND
Sexual violence is widespread in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including in the North Kivu province. Moreover, in this r...
Severely malnourished patients can present with bilateral pitting oedema, which is a common sign of Kwashiorkor. However, bilateral pitting oedema can also be an expression of other p...
Cholera is a bacterial water-borne diarrheal disease transmitted via the fecal-oral route that causes high morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. It is preventable with vaccination...
BACKGROUND
Conflict is known to impact maternal and neonatal health in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an area of longstanding insecurity. We co...
BACKGROUND
In 2019–2020, preventative Oral Cholera Vaccine campaigns were conducted in 24/32 n...
INTRODUCTION
Both ...
BACKGROUND
Tradi...
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Antimicrobial resistance is of great global public health concern. In order to address the paucity of antibiotic consumption data and antimicrobial resistance surveil...
BACKRGOUND
The rec...
We evaluated the spatiotemporal clustering of rapid diagnostic test−positive cholera cases in Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We detected spatiotemporal clusters that...
During the 2018–2020 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo, a phase 3 trial of the Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo Ebola vaccine (DRC-EB-001) commenced in Goma, wit...
During the 2018–2020 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, residents in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, were offered a two-dose prophylactic EVD vaccine. This was the first stud...
Accumulating evidence on the long-term immunogenicity of fractional dosing for yellow fever vaccines
BACKGROUND
Mobility of people living with HIV (PWH) among urban population in Goma and the fisherfolk community in western Uganda can serve as a barrier to retention in care. To...
Outbreak alert systems can offset the severity of measles epidemics by minimising response delays. Existing systems, however, are often too sensitive to be practical when ...