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Case-area targeted interventions to rapidly contain the spread of cholera - a prospective observational study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Finger F, Mimbu N, Ratnayake R, Meakin S, Bahati JB,  et al.
2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
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Abstract

Case-area targeted interventions to rapidly contain the spread of cholera: a prospective observational study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Finger F, Mimbu N, Ratnayake R, Meakin S, Bahati JB,  et al.
2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
INTRODUCTION
The risk of cholera outbreaks spreading rapidly and extensively is substantial. Case-area targeted interventions (CATI) are based on the premise that early detection can...
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Video

How to maximise catch-up vaccination opportunities in the post COVID 19 era

Shetty S, Wanyoike S, Kuach G, LaTrielle A, Bachy C,  et al.
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
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Évaluation des occasions manquées de vaccination (OMV) chez les enfants de moins de 5 ans dans 4 établissements de santé du district sanitaire de Matoto, ​République de 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
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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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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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Research

Improved vaccination coverage after two rounds of multi-antigenic catch-up vaccination in Mauritania

Pagola-Ugarte M, Rakesh A, Gil-Cuesta J, Kidinda D, Kelly TM,  et al.
2024-02-14 • PLOS Global Public Health
2024-02-14 • PLOS Global Public Health
Although Mauritania carried out its Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), in 2015 the goal of vaccination coverage (VC) remained unmet in Bassikounou district and Mbera camp, context...
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Short Report

Diphtheria in Europe

Mangion JP, Mancini S, Bachy C, de Weggheleire A, Zamatto F
2023-06-21 • Public Health Action
2023-06-21 • Public Health Action
A rising number of diphtheria cases were recorded in Europe in 2022, including in Belgium, within the newly arriving young migrant population. In October 2022, Médecins Sans Frontières (...
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Research

Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) in children up to 5 years old in 19 Médecins Sans Frontières-supported health facilities: a cross-sectional survey in six low-resource countries

Borras-Bermejo B, Panunzi I, Bachy C, Gil-Cuesta J
2022-07-26 • BMJ Open
2022-07-26 • BMJ Open
OBJECTIVE
To describe missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) among children visiting Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported facilities, their related factors, and to identify r...
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Study report

Enquête de couverture vaccinale multi antigénique Préfecture de Kouroussa, République de Guinée

Ngwa W, Mupenda J, Haba B, Nanan-N’Zeth K, Bachy C,  et al.
2019-02-25
2019-02-25

Objectif général

Estimer la couverture vaccinale contre la rougeole chez les enfants âgés de 6 mois à 59 mois après la campagne de vaccination de masse appuyée ...

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Research

Field challenges to measles elimination in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Coulborn RM, Nackers F, Bachy C, Porten K, Vochten H,  et al.
2020-02-25 • Vaccine
2020-02-25 • Vaccine
BACKGROUND:
During a measles epidemic, the Ministry of Public Health (MOH) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo conducted supplementary immunization activities (2016-SIA) from Au...
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Research

Meningitis serogroup W135 outbreak, Burkina Faso, 2002

Nathan N, Rose AMC, Legros D, Tiendrebeogo SRM, Bachy C,  et al.
2007-06-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2007-06-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
In 2002, the largest epidemic of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 occurred in Burkina Faso. The highest attack rate was in children <5 years of age. We describe cases from 1 distric...
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Research

[Management of cholera epidemics in a refugee camp]

Brown V, Jacquier G, Bachy C, Bitar D, Legros D
2002-12-01 • Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique
2002-12-01 • Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique
Cholera epidemics in refugee camps represent a major public health emergency. In camps, precarious living conditions contribute to the transmission of the vibrio. Among the major epidemi...
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Research

Efficacy of chloroquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine for treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria among children under five in Bongor and Koumra, Chad

Grandesso F, Bachy C, Donam I, Ntambi J, Habimana J,  et al.
2006-05-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2006-05-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We report two 28-day in-vivo antimalarial efficacy studies carried out in the urban centres of Bongor and Koumra, southern Chad. We assess chloroquine (CQ), sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP...
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Poster

Missed opportunities for vaccination in children under five years: cross-sectional survey

Borras-Bermejo B, Panunzi I, Bachy C, Cuesta JG
2020-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020: Research
2020-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020: Research
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Research

'When you welcome well, you vaccinate well': a qualitative study on improving vaccination coverage in urban settings in Conakry, Republic of Guinea

Cuesta JG, Whitehouse K, Kaba S, Nanan-N'Zeth K, Haba B,  et al.
2020-01-13 • International Health
2020-01-13 • International Health
BACKGROUND
Recurrent measles outbreaks followed by mass vaccination campaigns (MVCs) occur in urban settings in sub-Saharan countries. An understanding of the reasons for this is nee...