de Plecker E, Zachariah R, Kumar AMV, Trelles M, Caluwaerts C, et al.
2017-02-07 • PLOS One
2017-02-07 • PLOS One
OBJECTIVES 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...
Burtscher D, Van der Bergh R, Toktosunov U, Angmo N, Samieva N, et al.
2016-03-28 • PLOS One
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...
Shah SK, Van der Bergh R, Prinsloo JR, Rehman G, Bibi A, et al.
2016-03-01 • International Health
2016-03-01 • International Health
BACKGROUND 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...
Rabelo I, Lee VS, Fallah MP, Massaquoi M, Evlampidou I, et al.
2016-07-04 • Frontiers in Public Health
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...
Mafirakureva N, Lim AG, Khalid GG, Aslam K, Campbell L, et al.
2020-11-04 • Journal of Viral Hepatitis
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...
Benedetti G, Mossoko M, Nyakio Kakusu JP, Nyembo J, Mangion JP, et al.
2016-06-21 • Public Health Action
2016-06-21 • Public Health Action
SETTING 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...
Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, van den Boogaard W, Nyandwi G, et al.
2013-02-18 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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...
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
2018-08-01 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
BACKGROUND Access and linkage to care for migrant torture survivors is contingent on their identification and appropriate referral. However, appropriate tools for identification of s...
Bertol MJ, Van der Bergh R, Trelles M, Kenslor H, Basimuoneye JP, et al.
2014-07-20 • International Orthopaedics
2014-07-20 • International Orthopaedics
PURPOSE 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...
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
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...
Poliquin PG, Vogt F, Kasztura M, Leung A, Deschambault Y, et al.
2016-06-30 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2016-06-30 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND 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 ...
Ali E, Benedetti G, Van der Bergh R, Halford A, Bawo L, et al.
2020-09-21 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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...
Toit K, Altraja A, Acosta CD, Viiklepp P, Kremer K, et al.
2014-10-21 • Public Health Action
2014-10-21 • Public Health Action
SETTING 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....
Rossi G, Van der Bergh R, Nguon C, Debackere M, Vernaeve L, et al.
2017-09-04 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
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...
