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Cost analysis of the TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial on novel tuberculosis treatment regimens

Gotham D, Martin M, Barber MJ, Kazounis E, Batts C,  et al.
2025-04-23 • PLOS Global Public Health
2025-04-23 • PLOS Global Public Health

Clinical trials are considered to be the largest contributor to pharmaceutical development costs. However, public disclosure of the costs of individual clinical trials is rare. Médec...

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Application of the Médecins Sans Frontières clinical trial transparency policy: cost analysis of TB-PRACTECAL, a multicentre phase 2–3 trial in drug-resistant tuberculosis

Gotham D, Martin M, Barber M, Kazounis E, Batts C,  et al.
2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
INTRODUCTION
Clinical trials are a cornerstone of medical innovation. Nonetheless, little information on the cost of conducting clinical trials is available, especially for clinical ...
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Application of the Médecins Sans Frontières clinical trial transparency policy: cost analysis of TB-PRACTECAL, a multicentre phase 2–3 trial in drug-resistant tuberculosis

Gotham D, Martin M, Barber M, Kazounis E, Batts C,  et al.
2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
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Risk factors for cholera transmission in Haiti during inter-peak periods: insights to improve current control strategies from two case-control studies

Grandesso F, Allan M, Jean-Simon PSJ, Boncy J, Blake A,  et al.
2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
SUMMARY Two community-based density case-control studies were performed to assess risk factors for cholera transmission during inter-peak periods of the ongoing epidemic in two Haitian u...
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Médecins Sans Frontières experience in orthopedic surgery in post-earthquake Haiti in 2010

Teicher CL, Alberti KP, Porten K, Elder G, Baron E,  et al.
2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
INTRODUCTION
During January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, resulting in death and destruction for hundreds of thousands of people. This study describes the types of o...
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Observational bias during nutrition surveillance: results of a mixed longitudinal and cross-sectional data collection system in northern Nigeria

Grellety E, Luquero FJ, Mambula C, Adamu HH, Elder G,  et al.
2013-05-03 • PLOS One
2013-05-03 • PLOS One
The Sahel is subject to seasonal hungry periods with increasing rates of malnutrition. In Northern Nigeria, there is no surveillance system and surveys are rare. The objectives were to a...
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Commentary

Ensuring access to affordable, timely vaccines in emergencies

Elder K, Saitta B, Ducomble T, Alia M, Close R,  et al.
2019-10-28 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2019-10-28 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Vaccination is an effective intervention to reduce disease, disability, death and health inequities worldwide. Over the last two decades, vaccines have become more accessible in low-inco...
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Commentary

Challenging the barriers to accessing surgery in low-resource settings: Lessons learned from burns

Elder G, Murphy RA, Herard P, Dilworth K, Olson D,  et al.
2015-07-01 • Surgery
2015-07-01 • Surgery
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Commentary

Consequences of armed conflict for an ethnic Karen population

Checchi F, Elder G, Schäfer M, Drouhin E, Legros D
2003-07-05 • Lancet
2003-07-05 • Lancet
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Commentary

Recently developed drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a research and development case study

Perrin C, Athersuch K, Elder G, Martin M, Alsalhani A
2022-04-19 • BMJ Global Health
2022-04-19 • BMJ Global Health
Two drugs with novel mechanisms of action, the diarylquinoline bedaquiline and the nitroimidazole delamanid—as well as pretomanid from the same class of drugs as delamanid—have recently ...
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Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria among children in a refugee camp in Northern Uganda: lessons learned

Coldiron ME, Lasry E, Bouhenia M, Das D, Okui P,  et al.
2017-05-23 • Malaria Journal
2017-05-23 • Malaria Journal
Northern Uganda hosts a large population of refugees from South Sudan, and malaria is one of the major health problems in the area. In 2015, intermittent preventive treatment for malaria...
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Multidrug-resistant surgical site infections in a humanitarian surgery project

Murphy RA, Okoli O, Essien I, Teicher CL, Elder G,  et al.
2016-08-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
2016-08-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
The epidemiology of surgical site infections (SSIs) in surgical programmes in sub-Saharan Africa is inadequately described. We reviewed deep and organ-space SSIs occurring within a traum...
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Comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of two MSF surgical trauma centers

Gosselin RA, Maldonado A, Elder G
2010-03-01 • World Journal of Surgery
2010-03-01 • World Journal of Surgery
INTRODUCTION: There is a dearth of data on cost-effectiveness of surgical care in resource-poor countries. Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières; MSF) is a nongovernmental or...
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Policy Brief

Accessibility to medicines for major non-communicable diseases in Jordan - 2018

Karir V, Bygrave H, Cepuch C, Davis B, Elder G,  et al.
2019-09-23
2019-09-23
This is a summary of work undertaken between March 2018 and May 2018 in order to increase understanding of accessibility to medicines for major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among Jor...