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Focused training for humanitarian responders in regional anesthesia techniques for a planned randomized controlled trial in a disaster setting

Aluisio AR, Teicher CL, Wiskel T, Guy A, Levine AC
2016-11-16 • PLoS Currents
2016-11-16 • PLoS Currents
BACKGROUND
Lower extremity trauma during earthquakes accounts for the largest burden of geophysical disaster-related injuries. Insufficient pain management is common in disaster sett...
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Sequential outbreaks due to a new strain of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C in northern Nigeria, 2013-14

Gil Cuesta J, Mukembe N, Valentiner-Branth P, Stefanoff P, Lenglet AD
2015-02-02 • PLoS Currents
2015-02-02 • PLoS Currents
Background Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C (NmC) outbreaks occur infrequently in the African meningitis belt; the most recent report of an outbreak of this serogroup was in Burkina Fa...
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Which anthropometric indicators identify a pregnant woman as acutely malnourished and predict adverse birth outcomes in the humanitarian context?

Ververs MT, Antierens A, Sackl A, Staderini N, Captier V
2013-06-07 • PLoS Currents
2013-06-07 • PLoS Currents
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Infectious disease risk and vaccination in Northern Syria after 5 years of civil war: the MSF experience

Pereira AL, Southgate R, Ahmed H, Oconner P, Cramond V,  et al.
2018-02-02 • PLoS Currents
2018-02-02 • PLoS Currents
In 2015, following an influx of population into Kobanê in northern Syria, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in collaboration with the Kobanê Health Administration (KHA) initiated primary he...
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Measles vaccination coverage survey in Moba, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2013: need to adapt routine and mass vaccination campaigns to reach the unreached

Funk A, Uadiale K, Kamau C, Caugant DA, Ango U,  et al.
2014-12-29 • PLoS Currents
2014-12-29 • PLoS Currents
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has committed to eliminate measles by 2020. In 2013, in response to a large outbreak, Médecins Sans Frontières conducted a mass vaccination campaig...
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Temporal Changes in Ebola Transmission in Sierra Leone and Implications for Control Requirements: a Real-time Modelling Study

Camacho A, Kucharski AJ, Aki-Sawyerr Y, White M, Flasche S,  et al.
2015-02-10 • PLoS Currents
2015-02-10 • PLoS Currents
Between August and November 2014, the incidence of Ebola virus disease (EVD) rose dramatically in several districts of Sierra Leone. As a result, the number of cases exceeded the capacit...
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Public health surveillance after the 2010 Haiti earthquake: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

Polonsky JA, Luquero FJ, Francois G, Rousseau C, Caleo GNC,  et al.
2013-01-07 • PLoS Currents
2013-01-07 • PLoS Currents
BACKGROUND
In January 2010, Haiti was struck by a powerful earthquake, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands and leaving millions homeless. In order to better understand the sev...
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An analysis of cesarean section and emergency hernia ratios as markers of surgical capacity in low-income countries affected by humanitarian emergencies from 2008 - 2014 at Médecins sans Frontières Operations Centre Brussels projects

Stewart BT, Wong EG, Papillon-Smith J, Trelles Centurion M, Dominguez LB,  et al.
2015-03-27 • PLoS Currents
2015-03-27 • PLoS Currents
Surgical capacity assessments in low-income countries have demonstrated critical deficiencies. Though vital for planning capacity improvements, these assessments are resource intensive a...
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A nosocomial outbreak of clinical sepsis in a neonatal care unit (NCU) in Port-Au-Prince Haiti, July 2014 - September 2015

Lenglet AD, Faniyan O, Hopman J
2018-03-21 • PLoS Currents
2018-03-21 • PLoS Currents
INTRODUCTION
Between July 2014 and September 2015, a neonatal care unit (NCU) in Port Au Prince, Haiti, experienced an outbreak of sepsis, most probably due to nosocomial transmissio...