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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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Burtscher D, Van der Bergh R, Toktosunov U, Angmo N, Samieva N, et al.

2016-03-28 • PLOS One

Kyrgyzstan is one of the 27 high multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) burden countries listed by the WHO. In 2012, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started a drug-resistant tuberculos...

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Mafirakureva N, Lim AG, Khalid GG, Aslam K, Campbell L, et al.

2020-11-04 • Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Despite the availability of effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatments for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, many people remain undiagnosed and untreated. We assessed the cost-e...

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Shah SK, Van der Bergh R, Prinsloo JR, Rehman G, Bibi A, et al.

2016-03-01 • International Health

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In developing countries such as Pakistan, poor training of mid-level cadres of health providers, combined with unregulated availability of labour-inducing medication can c...

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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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Rabelo I, Lee VS, Fallah MP, Massaquoi M, Evlampidou I, et al.

2016-07-04 • Frontiers in Public Health

INTRODUCTION
A consequence of the West Africa Ebola outbreak 2014–2015 was the unprecedented number of Ebola survivors discharged from the Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs). Liberia alone...

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Letter

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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Commentary

Zachariah R, Kumar AMV, Reid A, Van der Bergh R, Isaakidis P, et al.

2014-09-21 • Public Health Action

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Abeygunawardena SC, Sharath BN, Van der Bergh R, Naik B, Pallewatta N, et al.

2014-06-21 • Public Health Action

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District Chest Clinic, Kalutara, Sri Lanka.

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To determine the coverage of culture and drug susceptibility testing (CDST), delays in CDST, treatment ini...

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Short Report

Das M, Isaakidis P, Van der Bergh R, Kumar AMV, Sharath BN, et al.

2016-06-21 • Public Health Action

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Case Report/Series

Womersley G, Kloetzer L, Van der Bergh R, Venables E, Severy N, et al.

2018-07-26 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture

INTRODUCTION
The dual trauma of being a victim of torture as well as a refugee is related to a myriad of losses, human rights violations and other dimensions of suffering linked to t...

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Coloni F, Van der Bergh R, Sittaro F, Giandonato S, Loots G, et al.

2012-01-01 • Waterlines

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Benedetti G, Mossoko M, Nyakio Kakusu JP, Nyembo J, Mangion JP, et al.

2016-06-21 • Public Health Action

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The Democratic Republic of Congo suffers from an amalgam of disease outbreaks and other medical emergencies. An efficient response to these relies strongly on the national su...

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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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Spissu C, De Maio G, Van der Bergh R, Ali E, Venables E, et al.

2018-08-01 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture

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Access and linkage to care for migrant torture survivors is contingent on their identification and appropriate referral. However, appropriate tools for identification of s...

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Bertol MJ, Van der Bergh R, Trelles M, Kenslor H, Basimuoneye JP, et al.

2014-07-20 • International Orthopaedics

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While the orthopaedic management of open fractures has been well-documented in developed settings, limited evidence exists on the surgical outcomes of open fractures in terms...

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Poliquin PG, Vogt F, Kasztura M, Leung A, Deschambault Y, et al.

2016-06-30 • Journal of Infectious Diseases

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Ebola viruses (EBOVs) are primarily transmitted by contact with infected body fluids. Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) contain areas that are exposed to body fluids through ...

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Ali E, Benedetti G, Van der Bergh R, Halford A, Bawo L, et al.

2020-09-21 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

During the initial phase of the 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia, all hospitals' isolation capacities were overwhelmed by the sheer caseload. As a stop-g...

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Toit K, Altraja A, Acosta CD, Viiklepp P, Kremer K, et al.

2014-10-21 • Public Health Action

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Estonia has a high proportion of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). It is important to link molecular and epidemiological data to understand TB transmission patterns....

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Rossi G, Van der Bergh R, Nguon C, Debackere M, Vernaeve L, et al.

2017-09-04 • Clinical Infectious Diseases

Reactive case detection around falciparum malaria cases in Cambodia presents a low output. We improved it by including individuals occupationally coexposed with index case patients and u...

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

"My favourite day is Sunday": community perceptions of (drug-resistant) tuberculosis and ambulatory tuberculosis care in Kara Suu District, Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan

Cost-effectiveness of screening and treatment using direct-acting antivirals for chronic Hepatitis C virus in a primary care setting in Karachi, Pakistan

Unregulated usage of labour-inducing medication in a region of Pakistan with poor drug regulatory control: characteristics and risk patterns

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

Psychological distress among Ebola survivors discharged from an Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia, Liberia - a qualitative study

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

Open access for operational research publications from low- and middle-income countries: who pays?

Management of previously treated tuberculosis patients in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka: how are we faring?

Treating All Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients, Not Just Bacteriologically Confirmed Cases

“My mind is not like before”: Psychosocial rehabilitation of victims of torture in Athens

Biodegradable bags as emergency sanitation in urban settings: the field experience

Sparks creating light? Strengthening peripheral disease surveillance in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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

"It never happened to me, so I don’t know if there are procedures”: identification and case management of torture survivors in the reception and public health system of Rome, Italy

Saving life and limb: limb salvage using external fixation, a multi-centre review of orthopaedic surgical activities in Médecins Sans Frontières

Environmental contamination and persistence of Ebola virus RNA in an Ebola treatment center

Distribution of household disinfection kits during the 2014-2015 Ebola virus outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia: The MSF experience

A four-year nationwide molecular epidemiological study in Estonia: risk factors for tuberculosis transmission

Adapting Reactive Case Detection Strategies for falciparum Malaria in a Low-Transmission Area in Cambodia