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Exploring the relationships between wasting and stunting among a cohort of children under two years of age in Niger.

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Journal Reference: BMC public health 2021 Sep 21; 21(1); 1713. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11689-6. Epub 2021 09 21

Evaluating newly approved drugs for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (endTB): study protocol for an adaptive, multi-country randomized controlled trial.

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Journal Reference: Trials 2021 Sep 25; 22(1); 651. doi: 10.1186/s13063-021-05491-3. Epub 2021 09 25

Conceptualizing factors impacting nutrition services coverage of treatment for acute malnutrition in children - an application of the in Niger.

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Journal Reference: Public health nutrition 2021 Oct 08; 1-21. doi: 10.1017/S1368980021004286. Epub 2021 10 08

Malnutrition: on what criteria should children be admitted to therapeutic nutritional programs?

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Published on 18.10.2021
As the seasonal "peak" of malnutrition has reached alarming proportions this year in the region of Maradi, Niger, a team from Epicentre has recently published in BMC Nutrition the results of a study carried out in Niger showing that it is feasible to use MUAC as the sole anthropometric criterion to determine which children suffering from severe acute malnutrition should be admitted to therapeutic nutritional programs.

Two-fold increase in the HIV viral load suppression rate along with decreased incidence over six years in Ndhiwa sub-county, Kenya.

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Journal Reference: Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 2021 Oct 12; . doi: 10.1111/tmi.13688. Epub 2021 10 12

Prevalence of malaria in an area receiving seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Niger.

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Journal Reference: Malaria journal 2021 Oct 24; 20(1); 419. doi: 10.1186/s12936-021-03953-2. Epub 2021 10 24

Traditional healers to improve access to quality health care in Africa.

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Journal Reference: The Lancet. Global health 2021 Nov ; 9(11); e1487-e1488. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00438-1. Epub 2021 10 25

An exploratory qualitative study of caregivers' knowledge, perceptions and practices related to hospital hygiene in rural Niger.

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Journal Reference: Infection prevention in practice 2021 Sep ; 3(3); 100160. doi: 10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100160. Epub 2021 07 03

Prof. Pontiano Kaleebu visits the Mbarara Center: Zebovac, a first step towards new collaborations.

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Published on 03.11.2021
On November 1, Prof. Pontiano Kaleebu, Director of the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit and principal investigator of the soon-to-be-completed ZEBOVAC trial, a two-dose Ebola vaccine regimen, visited the Mbarara Research Center to provide an oversight on the study.

How to effectively deliver HIV treatment to mobile fishing communities in Uganda?

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Published on 08.11.2021
HIV treatments are most effective when taken as prescribed. Adapting delivery to the lifestyles of people living with HIV is now part of the challenge to help control the epidemic worldwide. An Epicentre study coordinated by Jihane Ben Farhat and implemented by Carol Liu for MSF aims to determine most effective and most accepted mode of delivery for mobile fishing communities around Lakes George and Edward in Uganda.