Publications

BACKGROUND: Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) remain critically underfunded and underresearched in humanitarian settings.

Household transmission studies provided key insights on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in high-income countries but were rarely implemented in Africa.

BACKGROUND: Community-based treatment of acute malnutrition saves lives, but recovered children remain at risk of relapse postdischarge. Strategies to reduce this risk may include modification of anthropometric discharge criteria.

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

INTRODUCTION: In 2023, almost 200,000 children under 15 years died from tuberculosis, most without appropriate treatment.

INTRODUCTION: The risk of adverse birth outcomes, such as low birth weight (2500 g, LBW), is associated with poor maternal nutrition and weight gain in pregnancy and can increase the risk of infant mortality.

New Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections among adults have decreased in the last ten years in high HIV prevalent countries.

INTRODUCTION: Patient-centred task-shifting models may be a promising strategy in the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) to alleviate pressure on health systems and increase access to treatment in low-resourc

BACKGROUND: In 2020, the new pathogen SARS-CoV-2 spread fast, causing a pandemic. Health care workers on the frontline were of course highly exposed.