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de Plecker E, Zachariah R, Kumar AMV, Trelles M, Caluwaerts C, et al.

2017-02-07 • PLOS One

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In a rural district hospital in Burundi offering Emergency Obstetric care-(EmOC), we assessed the a) characteristics of women at risk of, or with an obstetric complication...

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Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, Kizito W, Vandenbulcke A, et al.

2011-08-10 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Valles P, Van den Bergh R, van den Boogaard W, Tayler-Smith K, Gayraud O, et al.

2016-11-03 • International Health

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Trauma is a leading cause of death and represents a major problem in developing countries where access to good quality emergency care is limited. Médecins Sans Frontières ...

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Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, van den Boogaard W, Vandeborne A, et al.

2013-08-21 • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

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In Burundi, the annual incidence of obstetric fistula is estimated to be 0.2-0.5% of all deliveries, with 1000-2000 new cases per year. Despite this relatively high incide...

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Buard V, Van der Bergh R, Tayler-Smith K, Godia P, Sobry A, et al.

2013-06-21 • Public Health Action

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Médecins Sans Frontières Clinic for sexual gender-based violence (SGBV), Nairobi, Kenya.

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Among survivors of SGBV in 2011, to describe demographic char...

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Zachariah R, Reid AJ, Van der Bergh R, Dahmane A, Kosgei RJ, et al.

2013-05-30 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Zachariah R, Tayler-Smith K, Ngamvithayapong-Yana J, Ota M, Murakami K, et al.

2010-11-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Gadoev J, Asadov D, Tillashaykhov M, Tayler-Smith K, Isaakidis P, et al.

2015-06-15 • PLOS One

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TB is one of the main health priorities in Uzbekistan and relatively high rates of unfavorable treatment outcomes have recently been reported. This requires closer analysi...

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Kanyerere H, Mganga A, Harries AD, Tayler-Smith K, Jahn A, et al.

2014-06-21 • Public Health Action

From 2000 to 2012, Malawi scaled up antiretroviral therapy (ART) from <3000 to 404 905 persons living with HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune-deficiency syndrome), re...

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Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, van den Boogaard W, Nyandwi G, et al.

2013-02-18 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the reduction in maternal mortality associated with the emergency obstetric care provided by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and to compare this to the fifth Mille...

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Aiyub S, Linh NN, Tayler-Smith K, Khogali MA, Bissell K

2013-03-21 • Public Health Action

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Fiji's schools of nursing and government health services, 2001-2010.

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To report on 1) the number and characteristics of nurses who graduated in Fiji, 2...

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Ponsar F, Tayler-Smith K, Philips M, Gerard S, Van Herp M, et al.

2011-05-19 • International Health

Although user fees are a common form of healthcare financing in resource-poor countries, there is growing consensus that their use compromises health service utilisation and population h...

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Nakanwagi-Mukwaya A, Fujiwara PI, Mugabe F, Kosgei RJ, Tayler-Smith K, et al.

2013-06-21 • Public Health Action

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Three regional referral hospitals in Uganda with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases.

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To determine the trea...

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Kanyerere H, Mganga A, Harries AD, Tayler-Smith K, Jahn A, et al.

2014-06-21 • Public Health Action

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Delamou A, Camara BS, Sidibe S, Camara AY, Dioubate N, et al.

2019-05-03 • Journal of Public Health In Africa

Since the adoption of free obstetric care policy in Guinea in 2011, no study has examined the surgical site infections in maternity facilities. The objective of this study was to assess ...

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Dalwai MK, Tayler-Smith K, Twomey M, Nasim M, Popal AQ, et al.

2018-03-16 • Emergency Medicine Journal: EMJ

The South African Triage Scale (SATS) has demonstrated good validity in the EDs of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported sites in Afghanistan and Haiti; however, corresponding reliabi...

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Singh SN, Bingwor F, Tayler-Smith K, Manzi M, Marks GB

2013-02-03 • Journal of Tropical Medicine

Setting. A nationwide study in Fiji. Objective. To describe the incidence of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) and its relationship to the incidence of notified cases of rubella in Fiji ...

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Singla N, Sathyanarayana S, Sachdeva KS, Van der Bergh R, Reid AJ, et al.

2014-07-24 • PLOS One

National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (erstwhile Lala Ram Sarup Institute) in Delhi, India.

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Vogt F, Tayler-Smith K, Bernasconi A, Makondo E, Taziwa F, et al.

2015-06-17 • PLOS One

CD4 cell count measurement remains an important diagnostic tool for HIV care in developing countries. Insufficient laboratory capacity in rural Sub-Saharan Africa is frequently mentioned...

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Rusovich V, Kumar AMV, Skrahina A, Hurevich H, Astrauko A, et al.

2014-12-21 • Public Health Action

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Belarus (Eastern Europe) is facing an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). In 2012, rapid molecular diagnostics were prioritised for sputum smear-positive p...

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Emergency obstetric care in a rural district of Burundi: What are the surgical needs?

Antiretroviral treatment uptake and attrition among HIV-positive patients with tuberculosis in Kibera, Kenya

Emergency department care for trauma patients in settings of active conflict versus urban violence: all of the same calibre?

Obstetric fistula in Burundi: a comprehensive approach to managing women with this neglected disease

Characteristics, medical management and outcomes of survivors of sexual gender-based violence, Nairobi, Kenya

Applying the ICMJE authorship criteria to operational research in low-income countries: the need to engage programme managers and policy makers [letter]

The published research paper: is it an important indicator of successful operational research at programme level?

Factors associated with unfavorable treatment outcomes in new and previously treated TB patients in Uzbekistan: a five year countrywide study

Decline in national tuberculosis notifications with national scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi

Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality in rural Africa: an experience from Burundi

Nurses graduating in Fiji between 2001 and 2010: sufficient supply for Fiji's health service demands?

No cash, no care: how user fees endanger health—lessons learnt regarding financial barriers to healthcare services in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Haiti and Mali

Characteristics and treatment outcomes of tuberculosis retreatment cases in three regional hospitals, Uganda

Decline in national tuberculosis notifications with national scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi (D/N include in MSF Pubs Dataset Analysis)

Trends of and factors associated with cesarean section related surgical site infections in Guinea

Inter-rater and intrarater reliability of the South African Triage Scale in low-resource settings of Haiti and Afghanistan

Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Fiji, 1995-2010

Impact of Introducing the Line Probe Assay on Time to Treatment Initiation of MDR-TB in Delhi, India

Access to CD4 Testing for Rural HIV Patients: Findings from a Cohort Study in Zimbabwe

High time to use rapid tests to detect multidrug resistance in sputum smear-negative tuberculosis in Belarus