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Review

Setting research priorities for sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings: a global, stakeholder-informed agenda

Nam SL, Abril A, McKay G, Casey SE, Bossard C,  et al.
2025-12-07 • Conflict and Health
2025-12-07 • Conflict and Health

BACKGROUND

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) remain critically underfunded and underresearched in humanitarian settings. Existing global research...

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Research

Identifying women with poor experience of post-abortion care: a cross-sectional study in two African hospitals in humanitarian settings

Pasquier E, Debeaudrap P, Benova L, Ngbale R, Adame Gbanzi MC,  et al.
2025-12-06 • BMC Public Health
2025-12-06 • BMC Public Health

BACKGROUND

High quality post-abortion care (PAC) is essential to reducing abortion-related morbidity and mortality. However, the experience of receiving PAC, a ...

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Research

Assessing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in African households from the reanalysis of serosurveys

Cristancho-Fajardo L, Nkuba-Ndaye A, Simons E, Hoze N, Guichet E,  et al.
2025-12-05 • American Journal of Epidemiology
2025-12-05 • American Journal of Epidemiology

Household transmission studies provided key insights on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in high-income countries but were rarely implemented in Africa. To help fill this gap, we analyzed SARS...

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Review

The development of a global research agenda and individual participant data platform for visceral leishmaniasis: challenges and future opportunities

Singh-Phulgenda S, Dahal P, Maguire BJ, Alvar J, Alves F,  et al.
2025-12-02 • Parasites and Vectors
2025-12-02 • Parasites and Vectors

BACKGROUND

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) listed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The disease is currently ...

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Letter

The BMJ appeal 2025-26: Palliative care is essential humanitarian work

Roberts N
2025-12-02 • British Medical Journal (BMJ)
2025-12-02 • British Medical Journal (BMJ)
Journal Article
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Research

Task sharing for the management of non-communicable diseases in a humanitarian setting: An innovative approach in a low-middle income country (LMIC)

Doumit M, Masri S, Ciglenecki I, Albela M
2025-12-01 • Public Health in Practice
2025-12-01 • Public Health in Practice

ABSTRACT

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines task shifting as the balanced reallocation of tasks from highly experienced professionals to those with mor...

Technical Report
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Evidence Brief

Impacts of climate change in South Sudan

MSF
2025-11-01
2025-11-01
Journal Article
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Review

Optimal anthropometric discharge criteria from treatment of wasting: meta-analysis of individual patient data from 34 studies

Bliznashka L, Chaudhary S, Rattigan SM, Isanaka S, Adah R,  et al.
2025-12-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2025-12-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

BACKGROUND

Community-based treatment of acute malnutrition saves lives, but recovered children remain at risk of relapse postdischarge. Strategies to reduce thi...

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Research

A qualitative exploration of women’s choices and experiences of using oral and vaginal HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Eswatini

Mukooza E, Mmema N, Dlamini V, Mabhena E, Daka M,  et al.
2025-12-01 • AIDS Care
2025-12-01 • AIDS Care

Understanding women’s decision-making when offered different HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) options is critical for improving uptake. This qualitative study explored factors infl...

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Research

Decentralised hepatitis C management: A simplified, integrated model of care in a primary health centre in Pakistan, August 2022-June 2023

Mazzilli S, Aslam MK, Ahmed M, Wailly Y, Miazek M,  et al.
2025-11-27 • Journal of Viral Hepatitis
2025-11-27 • Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Pakistan has the world's highest hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence, yet access to HCV care remains limited. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health Sindh, Médecins Sans Frontièr...

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Research

Organochlorine pesticides and salinity in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan: Environmental health risks associated with the Aral Sea crisis

Bartrem C, Kurbanov MI, Keller BD, Fiori A, von Lindern I,  et al.
2025-11-19 • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2025-11-19 • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

The legacy of Soviet-era agricultural practices in Central Asia has contributed to severe environmental degradation through residual organochlorine pesticide contamination, dramatic r...

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Research

Diagnostic accuracy of the WHO tuberculosis treatment decision algorithms for children with presumptive tuberculosis: An individual participant data meta-analysis

Olbrich L, Larsson L, Dunbar R, Dodd PJ, Palmer M,  et al.
2025-11-18 • PLOS Medicine
2025-11-18 • PLOS Medicine

INTRODUCTION

In 2023, almost 200,000 children under 15 years died from tuberculosis, most without appropriate treatment. Treatment decision algorithms (TDAs), d...

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Research

Hepcidin is low in children with moderate acute malnutrition and asymptomatic malaria: secondary analysis of a 2×2×3 factorial randomised trial in Burkina Faso

Helt TW, Kurtzhals J, List KK, Styrishave B, Yaméogo CW,  et al.
2025-11-17 • British Journal of Nutrition
2025-11-17 • British Journal of Nutrition

Children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) have an increased risk of iron deficiency, anaemia and death from infectious diseases. The iron-regulating hormone hepcidin is increase...

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Commentary

Humanitarianism and liberal democracies: An ambivalent relationship

Neuman M, Glasman J
2025-11-07 • Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
2025-11-07 • Journal of Humanitarian Affairs

The war in Gaza reveals a profound transformation in the humanitarian sector. While Joël Glasman sees it as a breaking point, Michaël Neuman believes that Gaza is instead the culminat...

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Research

Effect of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplements and medium-quantity lipid-based nutritional supplements on maternal weight gain and infant birth weight in rural Niger: a cluster-randomised trial

Rattigan SM, Garba S, Plikaytis B, Sudfeld C, Guindo O,  et al.
2025-11-03 • BMJ Global Health
2025-11-03 • BMJ Global Health
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Research

Health conditions of older adults in complex humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries: a retrospective analysis of 2019–2025 data from Médecins Sans Frontières-supported inpatient departments

van Boetzelaer E, Keating P, Caleo G, Oluyide B, Masum RR,  et al.
2025-11-01 • BMJ Global Health
2025-11-01 • BMJ Global Health

BACKGROUND

Inpatient admissions of older adults in humanitarian settings in low-income and middle-income countries remain poorly documented, likely leading to g...

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Research

Melioidosis in Mali: a retrospective observational study

Lichtenegger S, Klugherz I, Wagner GE, Michel J, Mollo B,  et al.
2025-11-01 • Lancet Global Health
2025-11-01 • Lancet Global Health

BACKGROUND

Melioidosis is a neglected tropical bacterial infection with a high mortality rate caused by the Gram-negative soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomall...

Journal Article
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Research

Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasound for pulmonary tuberculosis in out-patients from Papua New Guinea, a resource-limited setting

Lightowler M, Min J, Nape A, Galowa T, Hemo C,  et al.
2025-11-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2025-11-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases

OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasound (LUS) for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in Papua New Guinea.

METHODS

Technical Report
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Evidence Brief

The power of community action in a changing climate

Tsotetsi N, Roca-Barcelo A, Pelembe L, Ahmed R, Neira L,  et al.
2025-11-01
2025-11-01
Research & Publication Guidance
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Guidelines/How-Tos

MSF Scientific Days 2026: Research abstract guidelines

MSF Scientific Days International Organizing Committee
2025-11-01
2025-11-01

These documents provide information for submitting an abstract to the Research portion of MSF Scientific Days International 2026. They describe the criteria for consideration, along w...