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Letter

Mesic A, Decuyper I, Ishaq S, Azizi T, Hadi Ziamal F, et al.

2024-05-30 • European Respiratory Journal

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Sitali N, Briskin E, Foday J, Walker C, Keus K, et al.

2023-01-01 • Global Public Health

Since 2015 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been supporting the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone, with an integrated health care approach at the community, ...

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Keus K, Houston S, Melaku Y, Burling S

2008-01-31 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

This is a descriptive report of a pilot project of tuberculosis (TB) treatment in a conflict zone. A TB programme was implemented by Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF)-Holland in a semi-nomad...

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van den Broek IVF, Gatkoi T, Lowoko B, Nzila A, Ochong E, et al.

2008-01-31 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

The current first-line and second-line drugs for Plasmodium falciparum malaria in South Sudan, chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), were evaluated and compared with amodiaquin...

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Mesic A, Ishaq S, Khan WH, Mureed A, Mar HT, et al.

2022-01-03 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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To describe the effect of adaptations to a person-centred care with short oral regimens on retention in care for rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) in Kandahar province, Afgh...

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Briskin E, Smith JS, Caleo GNC, Lenglet AD, Pearlman J, et al.

2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research

INTRODUCTION
In April 2020, “shielding” (separate living spaces with enhanced infection control support for groups at high risk of severe COVID-19 disease) was proposed for COVID-19 ...

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Vambe D, Kay AW, Furin J, Howard AA, Dlamini T, et al.

2020-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

SETTING: Since 2015, Eswatini has been scaling up bedaquiline (BDQ) and delamanid (DLM) based drug-resistant TB treatment regimens under programmatic conditions.

OBJECTIVE: Id...

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Verdecchia M, Keus K, Blankley S, Vambe D, Ssonko C, et al.

2018-10-17 • PLOS One

INTRODUCTION
Since 2011 Médecins sans Frontières together with the eSwatini Ministry of Health have been managing patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at Matsapha...

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Ochong E, van den Broek IVF, Keus K, Nzila A

2003-08-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Amodiaquine, a 4-aminoquinoline compound, is being considered as an alternative to chloroquine and pyrimethamine/sulfadoxine where resistance in Plasmodium falciparum to both drugs has b...

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Depoortere E, Kavle J, Keus K, Zeller H, Murri S, et al.

2004-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

An atypical outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) occurred in Ngorban County, South Kordophan, Sudan, from May to August 2002. We investigated the epidemic and conducted a case-control study...

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Briskin E, Smith JS, Caleo GNC, Lenglet AD, Pearlman J, et al.

2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research

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Gorski S, Collin SM, Ritmeijer KKD, Keus K, Gatluak F, et al.

2010-06-08 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

BACKGROUND: Risk factors associated with L. donovani visceral leishmaniasis (VL; kala azar) relapse are poorly characterized. METHODS: We investigated patient characteristics and drug re...

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Melaku Y, Collin SM, Keus K, Gatluak F, Ritmeijer KKD, et al.

2007-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Médecins sans Frontières-Holland has treated > 67,000 patients with kala-azar (KA) in southern Sudan since 1989. In 2002, we replaced the standard regimen of 30 days of daily sodium stib...

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Hamour S, Melaku Y, Keus K, Wambugu J, Atkin S, et al.

2005-07-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Both northern and southern Sudan are deploying artemisinin-based combinations against uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria (artesunate+sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine [AS+SP] in the nor...

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Short Report

Vambe D, Dlamini T, Furin J, Gracia-Edwards C, Keus K, et al.

2017-09-21 • Public Health Action

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Poster

Sitali N, Briskin E, Foday J, Walker C, Keus K, et al.

2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022

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Short oral treatment regimens for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis are safe and effective for young children: results from a field-based non-randomized clinical trial, Kandahar Afghanistan

What it takes to get it right: A qualitative study exploring optimal handover of health programmes in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone

Field research in humanitarian medical programmes. Treatment of a cohort of tuberculosis patients using the Manyatta regimen in a conflict zone in South Sudan

Chloroquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine efficacy for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Upper Nile, south Sudan

Person-centred care and short oral treatment for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis improve retention in care in Kandahar, Afghanistan

Community perceptions of COVID-19 prevention and control measures in Nigeria and Sierra Leone: multisite, community-led qualitative study

Bedaquiline and delamanid result in low rates of unfavourable outcomes among TB patients in Eswatini

Model of care and risk factors for poor outcomes in patients on multi-drug resistant tuberculosis treatment at two facilities in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), 2011–2013

Short report: association between cloroquine and amodiaquine resistance and allelic variation in the Plasmodium falciparum multiple drug Resistance 1 gene and the chloroquine resistance transporter gene in isolates from the upper Nile in Southern Sudan

Outbreak of West Nile virus causing severe neurological involvement in children, Nuba Mountains, Sudan, 2002

Community perceptions of COVID-19 prevention and control measures in Nigeria and Sierra Leone: multisite, community-led qualitative study

Visceral leishmaniasis relapse in Southern Sudan (1999-2007): a retrospective study of risk factors and trends

Treatment of kala-azar in Southern Sudan using a 17-day regimen of sodium stibogluconate combined with paromomycin: a retrospective comparison with 30-day sodium stibogluconate monotherapy

Malaria in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan: baseline genotypic resistance and efficacy of the artesunate plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and artesunate plus amodiaquine combinations

Operational aspects of bedaquiline implementation in Swaziland: report from the field

What it takes to get it right: A qualitative study exploring optimal handover of health programmes in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone