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Choléra RDC
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Cholera surveillance: from theory to deployment of rapid diagnostic tests

Published on 25.08.2023
How can rapid diagnostic tests be integrated into cholera surveillance? This is the question being addressed by a new study funded by GAVI, the Vaccin...
Cholera
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Antibiotique Niger
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The challenges of appropriate antibiotic use

Published on 21.07.2023
With funding from the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP)*, Epicentre has conducted a quantitative and qualitative study to f...
Antibiorésistance
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Goma_IDP
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Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF calls for a rapid and tangible increase in humanitarian aid in response to North Kivu crisis

Published on 27.06.2023
Some 600,000 displaced people are living in desperate conditions, with inadequate access to food and exposed to violence in camps around Goma, in the ...
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Alerte Niger
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Alerte Niger: early warning of epidemic risks to act more quickly

Published on 31.05.2023
During an epidemic, the earlier the alert is launched, the better the chances of controlling it. Alerte Niger meets this objective. This easy-to-use a...
Cholera Measle Meningitis
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Vaccination
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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 ...
Yellow fever
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Tuberculose Manille
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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...
Tuberculosis
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travailleuse du sexe_malawi_mwanza_isabel_corthier
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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...
HIV
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intervention CATI DRC
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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...
Choléra
Bannière
vaccination rougeole RDC @Pacom Bagula
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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...
Measle
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MDA Iturie RDC
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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...
Malaria