Publications
[Anthropometric indices used for the diagnosis of malnutrition in adolescents and adults: review of the literature].
The International Dietary Energy Consultative Group, sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), has done most of the research conducted in the field of adult malnutrition in the late 1980's.
Vaccination in emergencies.
Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are the main actors of vaccine delivery during complex humanitarian emergencies such as large population displacements.
Famine in southern Sudan.
We provide baseline information and objective testimony on severe malnutrition and high mortality in the general population of southern Sudan that is affected by chronic civil war and severe famine.
Risk factors for treatment failure after melarsoprol for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense trypanosomiasis in Uganda.
We evaluated the treatment failure rate among late-stage human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) patients treated with melarsoprol in Arua, northern Uganda, between September 1995 and August 1996, and identified the risk factors for treatment failure.
[Therapeutic failure of melarsoprol among patients treated for late stage T.b. gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in Uganda].
The failure rate of melarsoprol after treatment of late stage cases of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is usually under 7%, even though the drug has been used for such treatment over the past 50 years.
Risk factors for death in hospitalized dysentery patients in Rwanda.
To evaluate the management of severe dysentery cases in in-patient facilities during an epidemic of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1), and to identify the factors associated with the risk of death, we conducted a prospective cohort study in 10 Rwandese
Mass vaccination with a two-dose oral cholera vaccine in a refugee camp.
In refugee settings, the use of cholera vaccines is controversial since a mass vaccination campaign might disrupt other priority interventions.