Despite the large numbers of displaced persons and the often-lengthy periods of displacement, little is known about the impact of forced migration on long-term under-five mortality. This...
Priotto G, Kasparian S, Ngouama D, Ghorashian S, Arnold U, et al.
2007-12-01 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2007-12-01 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND: Human African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is a fatal disease. Current treatment options for patients with second-stage disease are either highly to...
Karunakara U, Neuner F, Schauer M, Hill K, Elbert T
2004-08-01 • African Health Sciences
2004-08-01 • African Health Sciences
OBJECTIVES To compare the incidence of traumatic events and its association with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in three population groups in northern Uganda and southern...
Neuner F, Schauer M, Klaschik C, Karunakara U, Elbert T
2004-08-01 • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
2004-08-01 • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Little is known about the usefulness of psychotherapeutic approaches for traumatized refugees who continue to live in dangerous conditions. Narrative exposure therapy (NET) is a short-te...
2011-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2011-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Very limited operational research (OR) emerges from programme settings in low-income countries where the greatest burden of disease lies. The price paid for this void includes a lack of ...
Checchi F, Chappuis F, Karunakara U, Priotto G, Chandramohan D
2011-07-05 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2011-07-05 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Algorithms to diagnose gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) are often complex due to the unsatisfactory sensitivity and/or specificity of available tests, and...
Balasegaram M, Harris SR, Checchi F, Hamel C, Karunakara U
2006-10-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2006-10-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE In 2002-03, the Republic of the Congo increased the threshold separating stage 1 and 2 cases of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) from a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white c...
2013-10-10 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2013-10-10 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Data on the elderly are rarely collected in humanitarian emergencies. During a refugee crisis in South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières developed a prospective mortality surveillance syst...
