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Moser W, Broban A, Welo PO, Mukadi D, Gerstl S, et al.

2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024

MSF Ethics Review Board

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Standardized survey templates

Gerstl S, Grandesso F, Siddiqui R, Greig J, du Cros PAK, et al.

2022-10-25

Ce modèle doit être utilisé comme cadre pour écrire votre protocole d'enquête de mortalité contextualisée. Il a été pré-approuvé par le comité de révision éthique de MSF le 12 juillet 20...

MSF Ethics Review Board

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Standardized survey templates

Grandesso F, Gerstl S, Siddiqui R, Greig J, du Cros PAK, et al.

2022-10-25

Mortality Survey Protocol - standardised, MSF ERB approved, intersectional

This collection of files includes an overview of the whole process of conducting a mortality survey an...

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Research

Rose AMC, Mueller JE, Gerstl S, Njanpop-Lafourcade BM, Page AL, et al.

2010-06-11 • PLOS One

Meningococcal meningitis outbreaks occur every year during the dry season in the "meningitis belt" of sub-Saharan Africa. Identification of the causative strain is crucial before launchi...

MSF Ethics Review Board

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Standardized survey templates

Gerstl S, Siddiqui R, Greig J, Lenglet AD, du Cros PAK, et al.

2017-08-24

Vaccination coverage survey protocol - standardised, MSF ERB approved, intersectional

This collection of files includes an overview of the whole process of conducting a vaccinat...

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Research

Olliaro PL, Guerin PJ, Gerstl S, Haaskjold AA, Rottingen JA, et al.

2005-12-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

The state of Bihar in India carries the largest share of the world's burden of antimony-resistant visceral leishmaniasis. We analysed clinical studies done in Bihar with different treatm...

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Research

Gerstl S, Dunkley S, Mukhtar A, de Smet M, Baker S, et al.

2010-01-21 • Malaria Journal

BACKGROUND
Most malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) use HRP2 detection, including Paracheck-Pf(R), but their utility is limited by persistent false positivity after treatment. PLDH...

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Research

Gerstl S, Dunkley S, Mukhtar A, Maes P, de Smet M, et al.

2010-04-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a malaria control project in Bo and Pujehun districts (population 158 000) that includes the mass distribution, routine delivery and dem...

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Research

Rose AMC, Gerstl S, Mahamane AE, Sidikou F, Djibo S, et al.

2009-10-05 • PLOS One

The Pastorex((R)) (BioRad) rapid agglutination test is one of the main rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for meningococcal disease currently in use in the "meningitis belt". Earlier evaluati...

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Gerstl S, Lee L, Nesbitt RC, Mambula C, Sugianto H, et al.

2022-02-14 • BMC Public Health

BACKGROUND
Cervical cancer (CC) is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide and Malawi has the world's highest rate of cervical cancer related mortality. Since 2016 the Na...

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Gerstl S, Nesbitt RC

2021-06-10 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2021

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Borel T, Rose AMC, Guillerm M, Sidikou F, Gerstl S, et al.

2006-10-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

There is a great need for a rapid diagnostic test to guide vaccine choice during outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis in resource-poor countries. During a randomised clinical trial cond...

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Research

Coulborn RM, Gebrehiwot TG, Schneider M, Gerstl S, Adera C, et al.

2018-11-08 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Ethiopia bears a high burden of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Early access to VL diagnosis and care improves clinical prognosis and reduces transmission from infected humans; however, sig...

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Vanlerberghe V, Diap G, Guerin PJ, Meheus F, Gerstl S, et al.

2007-02-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

OBJECTIVE: To facilitate the choice of the best visceral leishmaniasis (VL) treatment strategy for first-line health services in (VL)-endemic areas, we compared in a formal decision anal...

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Grais RF, Dubray C, Gerstl S, Guthmann JP, Djibo A, et al.

2007-01-01 • PLOS Medicine

BACKGROUND: Despite the comprehensive World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) measles mortality-reduction strategy and the Measles Initiative, a partnersh...

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Abstract

Gerstl S, Nesbitt RC

2021-06-10 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2021

BACKGROUND
Cervical cancer can be prevented with HPV vaccination and precancer screening. Malawi is the country with the second highest cervical cancer (CC) incidence and CC-related ...

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Research

Gerstl S, Kiwila G, Dhorda M, Lonlas S, Myatt M, et al.

2009-07-22 • PLOS One

BACKGROUND: Until the 1970s the prevalence of non-venereal trepanomatosis, including yaws, was greatly reduced after worldwide mass treatment. In 2005, cases were again reported in the D...

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Gerstl S, Dunkley S, Mukhtar A, Baker S, Maikere J

2010-05-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

A study to measure adherence to artesunate and amodiaquine (AS+AQ) therapy in patients treated for uncomplicated malaria in community health centres (CHC) was conducted in Sierra Leone. ...

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Gerstl S, Namagana A, Palacios L, Mweshi F, Aprile S, et al.

2015-10-19 • Malaria Journal

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In resource-poor settings, treatment adherence is a major determinant of response to anti-malarial drugs as most are taken at home without medical supervision. Evidence on...

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Depoortere E, Checchi F, Broillet F, Gerstl S, Minetti A, et al.

2004-10-14 • Lancet

BACKGROUND: Violence in Darfur, Sudan, has rendered more than one million people internally displaced. An epidemiological study of the effect of armed incursions on mortality in Darfur w...

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A multi-site pilot study of the deployment of cholera rapid diagnostic tests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

MSF ERB Enquête rétrospective sur la mortalité

Standardised mortality surveys

Meningitis Dipstick Rapid Test: Evaluating Diagnostic Performance During an Urban Neisseria Meningitidis Serogroup A Outbreak, Burkina Faso, 2007

Standardised vaccination coverage surveys

Treatment options for visceral leishmaniasis: a systematic review of clinical studies done in India, 1980-2004

Assessment of two malaria rapid diagnostic tests in children under five years of age, with follow-up of false-positive pLDH test results, in a hyperendemic falciparum malaria area, Sierra Leone

Long-lasting insecticide-treated net usage in eastern Sierra Leone - the success of free distribution

Field evaluation of two rapid diagnostic tests for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A during the 2006 outbreak in Niger

Cervical cancer screening coverage and its related knowledge in southern Malawi

Cervical cancer prevention in Malawi: HPV vaccination and cervical pre-cancer screening coverage

High sensitivity and specificity of the Pastorex latex agglutination test for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A during a clinical trial in Niger

Barriers to access to visceral leishmaniasis diagnosis and care among seasonal mobile workers in Western Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: A qualitative study

Drug policy for visceral leishmaniasis: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Unacceptably high mortality related to measles epidemics in Niger, Nigeria, and Chad

Cervical cancer prevention in Malawi: HPV vaccination and cervical pre-cancer screening coverage

Prevalence study of yaws in the Democratic Republic of Congo using the lot quality assurance sampling method

Successful introduction of artesunate combination therapy is not enough to fight malaria: results from an adherence study in Sierra Leone

High adherence to malaria treatment: promising results of an adherence study in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Violence and mortality in West Darfur, Sudan (2003-04): epidemiological evidence from four surveys