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Cost-effectiveness of screening and treatment using direct-acting antivirals for chronic Hepatitis C virus in a primary care setting in Karachi, Pakistan.

Abstract

Despite the availability of effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatments for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, many people remain undiagnosed and untreated.

Mafirakureva N Lim AG Khalid GG Aslam K Campbell L Zahid H Van den Bergh R Falq G Fortas C Wailly Y Auat R Donchuk D Loarec A Coast J Vickerman P Walker JG
Journal of viral hepatitis 2020 Oct 14; doi: 10.1111/jvh.13422. Epub 2020 10 14
Pakistan chronic hepatitis C cost effectiveness low income population treatment costs

‘Being Stuck’: Refugees’ Experiences of Enforced Waiting in Greece.

Abstract

Waiting has traditionally been considered a passive state and Hage (2009) identified a sense of ‘stuckedness’, as the cornerstones of social life become suspended when liminality turns into protracted waiting (Hage 2009).

Bjertrup PJ Farhat JB Bouhenia M Neuman M Mayaud P Blanchet K
Immobility and Medicine 2020 (pp. 39-59)
Refugees Greece

Introducing new and repurposed TB drugs: the endTB experience.

Abstract

In 2015, the initiative Expand New Drug Markets for TB (endTB) began, with the objective of reducing barriers to access to the new and repurposed TB drugs. Here we describe the major implementation challenges encountered in 17 endTB countries.

Seung KJ Khan U Varaine F Ahmed S Bastard M Cloez S Damtew D Franke MF Herboczek K Huerga H Islam S Karakozian H Khachatryan N Kliesckova J Khan AJ Khan M Khan P Kotrikadze T Lachenal N Lecca L Lenggogeni P Maretbayeva S Melikyan N Mesic A Mitnick CD Mofolo M Perrin C Richard M Tassew YM Telnov A Vilbrun SC Wanjala S Rich ML Hewison C
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2020 Oct 01; 24(10); 1081-1086. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.20.0141. Epub 2020 11 02

Cluster randomized trials

Abstract

Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) has recently emerged as a critical field for research, policy, and practice as a result of the growing recognition of health as a core dimension in disaster risk management.

Coldiron Matthew Grais Rebecca
WHO Guidance on Research Methods for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management 2020 0ctober 01; Chapter 4.3; 262-270
Clinical trial

Estimation of Rift Valley fever virus spillover to humans during the Mayotte 2018-2019 epidemic.

Abstract

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging, zoonotic, arboviral hemorrhagic fever threatening livestock and humans mainly in Africa. RVF is of global concern, having expanded its geographical range over the last decades.

Métras R Edmunds WJ Youssouffi C Dommergues L Fournié G Camacho A Funk S Cardinale E Le Godais G Combo S Filleul L Youssouf H Subiros M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020 Sep 29; 117(39); 24567-24574. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004468117. Epub 2020 09 14
One Health Rift Valley fever epidemics modeling spillover

Development of a patient rated scale for mental health global state for use during humanitarian interventions.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: We present the results of a cross-cultural validation of the Mental Health Global State (MHGS) scale for adults and adolescents (<14 years old).

Llosa AE Martínez-Viciana C Carreño C Evangelidou S Casas G Marquer C Moro MR Falissard B Grais RF
International journal of methods in psychiatric research 2020 Sep 18; e1850. doi: 10.1002/mpr.1850. Epub 2020 09 18
conflict global scale humanitarian intervention mental health psychology

Successes and gaps in the HIV cascade of care of a high HIV prevalence setting in Zimbabwe: a population-based survey.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Gutu, a rural district in Zimbabwe, has been implementing comprehensive HIV care with the support of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 2011, decentralizing testing and treatment services to all rural healthcare facilit

Conan N Coulborn RM Simons E Mapfumo A Apollo T Garone DB Casas EC Puren AJ Chihana ML Maman D
Journal of the International AIDS Society 2020 Sep ; 23(9); e25613. doi: 10.1002/jia2.25613. Epub 2020 10 01
ART HIV cascade of care incidence prevalence viral suppression