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2010-06-17 • Conflict and Health
2010-06-17 • Conflict and Health
INTRODUCTION
Many countries ravaged by conflict have substantial morbidity and mortality attributed to HIV/AIDS yet HIV treatment is uncommonly available. Universal access to HIV car...
Many countries ravaged by conflict have substantial morbidity and mortality attributed to HIV/AIDS yet HIV treatment is uncommonly available. Universal access to HIV car...
Protocol
|Research Protocol
2018-07-01
2018-07-01
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF STUDY
• To demonstrate the extent of change in patient management through the availability of digital X-ray with teleradiology consultation.
SECOND...
• To demonstrate the extent of change in patient management through the availability of digital X-ray with teleradiology consultation.
SECOND...
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2012-02-01
2012-02-01
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2017-03-22 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2017-03-22 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
Although individual HIV rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) show good performance in evaluations conducted by WHO, reports from several African countries highlight potentially significant perf...
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2014-04-16 • PLOS One
2014-04-16 • PLOS One
In 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) investigated reports of high mortality in young children in Zamfara State, Nigeria, leading to confirmation of villages with widespread acute seve...
Journal Article
|Commentary
2017-07-19 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2017-07-19 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
Journal Article
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2014-01-01 • Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy
2014-01-01 • Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy
HIV rapid diagnostic tests have enabled widespread implementation of HIV programs in resource-limited settings. If the tests used in the diagnostic algorithm are susceptible to the same ...
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2015-06-02 • BMC Medical Ethics
2015-06-02 • BMC Medical Ethics
Community consultation is increasingly recommended, and in some cases, required by ethical review boards for research that involves higher levels of ethical risk such as international re...
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2016-06-17 • PLOS One
2016-06-17 • PLOS One
Existing tools for evaluating psychosocial interventions (un-validated self-reporting questionnaires) are not ideal for use in non-Western conflict settings. We implement a generic metho...
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2014-04-13 • Journal of Virological Methods
2014-04-13 • Journal of Virological Methods
2% of the world's population lives with a hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with highest rates in developing countries. The most common mode of transmission takes place via unsafe blood ...
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2012-04-25 • PLOS One
2012-04-25 • PLOS One
Catch-up growth after an infection is essential for children to maintain good nutritional status. To prevent malnutrition, WHO recommends that children are given one additional healthy m...
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2015-07-10 • PLOS One
2015-07-10 • PLOS One
Co-infection with HIV and visceral leishmaniasis is an important consideration in treatment of either disease in endemic areas. Diagnosis of HIV in resource-limited settings relies on ra...
Protocol
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2013-09-01
2013-09-01
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2013-11-25 • PLOS One
2013-11-25 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND
Recent trends to earlier access to anti-retroviral treatment underline the importance of accurate HIV diagnosis. The WHO HIV testing strategy recommends the use of two or ...
Recent trends to earlier access to anti-retroviral treatment underline the importance of accurate HIV diagnosis. The WHO HIV testing strategy recommends the use of two or ...
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2013-03-20 • PLOS One
2013-03-20 • PLOS One
Access to HIV diagnosis is life-saving; however the use of rapid diagnostic tests in combination is vulnerable to wrongly diagnosing HIV infection when both screening tests give a false ...
Journal Article
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2017-07-26 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2017-07-26 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Our objective was to evaluate the performance of HIV testing algorithms based on WHO recommendations, using data from specimens collected at six HIV testing and counselling sites in sub-...
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2011-11-30 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
2011-11-30 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Vertical HIV programs have achieved good results but may not be feasible or appropriate in many resource-limited settings. Médecins sans Frontières has treated HIV in vertical programs s...
Protocol
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2018-07-01
2018-07-01
Objectives
3.1 Primary objective
To evaluate the overall and site-specific performance of the diagnostic algorithm performed at 6
MSF African program sites (i.e. using R...
3.1 Primary objective
To evaluate the overall and site-specific performance of the diagnostic algorithm performed at 6
MSF African program sites (i.e. using R...
Journal Article
|Research
2012-08-30 • PLOS One
2012-08-30 • PLOS One
Sepsis is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality, yet controversy surrounds the current treatment approach. We conducted a systematic review to assess the evidence base for flu...
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2016-02-09 • PLOS Medicine
2016-02-09 • PLOS Medicine
Globally, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats more than 300,000 severely malnourished children annually. Malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food but also by illnesses and by po...