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Yellow fever: One-fifth of a dose is enough to effectively protect children and people living with HIV during an outbreak

Published on 20.04.2023
After demonstrating the efficacy of fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine in the general population, Epicentre and its partners, with funding from ...
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Computerized radiographic detection of tuberculosis in densely populated areas of Manila

Published on 23.03.2023
While COVID-19 raised awareness of the risks of airborne disease in the general population, vulnerable populations - such as the urban poor - were exp...
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HIV, sexual violence: the heavy toll on female sex workers in Malawi

Published on 14.03.2023
For the first time, a study conducted among 363 sex workers in Malawi, a quarter of whom were adolescents, describes the rate of HIV infection, knowle...
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Cholera: a 360° approach to containing epidemics

Published on 08.03.2023
Since the end of December 2022, a MSF team has been working in the Minova health zone in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a cho...
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Measles in DRC: the never-ending fight against one of the world’s most contagious disease?

Published on 21.02.2023
Every two to three years, measles outbreaks affect tens or even hundreds of thousands of children in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Last year was...
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Verbal autopsy, an additional tool for epidemiology

Published on 16.02.2023
Due to the extremely high mortality in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, caused in particular by malaria, MSF has deployed mass drug administration...
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FujiLAM rapid test: a new hope for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in people living with HIV?

Published on 07.02.2023
The lack of easy-to-use, reliable and affordable diagnostic tests for tuberculosis reduces the capacity to control the disease. In a publication in Th...
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What impact(s) do differentiated antiretroviral delivery models have on users?

Published on 11.01.2023
Adapting care to the lifestyles of people living with HIV is now part of the challenge to help control the HIV epidemic worldwide. In two studies, one...
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Evaluation of ultrasound as an alternative to chest radiography for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea

Published on 04.01.2023
One of the challenges to stopping the spread of tuberculosis is the availability of reliable, rapid, accessible and easy-to-use diagnostic tools. Amon...
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Ebola in Uganda: “We never know everything about the epidemiological puzzle”

Published on 08.12.2022
No new cases of Ebola have been confirmed since November 27 in Uganda, where an outbreak was declared on September 20 by authorities. While MSF teams...
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