Publications

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Clinical epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in the Pokot endemic area of Uganda and Kenya.

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Between 2000 and 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières diagnosed and treated 4,831 patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Pokot region straddling the border between Uganda and Kenya.

Mueller YK Kolaczinski JH Koech T Lokwang P Riongoita M Velilla E Brooker SJ Chappuis F
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2014 Jan ; 90(1); 33-9. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0150. Epub 2013 11 11

Community-based measles mortality surveillance in two districts of Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Mortality due to measles is often under-reported. Traditional methods of measuring mortality can be time and resource-intensive. We describe the implementation of a community-based method to monitor measles mortality.

N'goran AA Ilunga N Coldiron ME Grais RF Porten K
BMC research notes 2013 Dec 17; 6 537. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-537. Epub 2013 12 17

Adults receiving HIV care before the start of antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: patient outcomes and associated risk factors.

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BACKGROUND: Gaining understanding of the period before antiretroviral therapy (ART) is needed to improve treatment outcomes and to reduce HIV transmission.

Bastard M Nicolay N Szumilin E Balkan S Poulet E Pujades-Rodriguez M
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2013 Dec 15; 64(5); 455-63. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3182a61e8d. Epub 2014 01 03

Measles outbreak response immunization is context-specific: insight from the recent experience of Médecins Sans Frontières.

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Andrea Minetti and colleagues compare measles outbreak responses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi and argue that outbreak response strategies should be tailored to local measles epidemiology.

Minetti A Bopp C Fermon F François G Grais RF Grout L Hurtado N Luquero FJ Porten K Sury L Terzian M
PLoS medicine 2013 Nov ; 10(11); e1001544. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001544. Epub 2013 11 05

The value of and challenges for cholera vaccines in Africa.

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The 21st century saw a shift in the cholera burden from Asia to Africa.

von Seidlein L Jiddawi M Grais RF Luquero F Lucas M Deen J
The Journal of infectious diseases 2013 Nov 01; 208 Suppl 1 S8-14. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jit194. Epub 2013 12 12
Africa OCV cholera review vaccine

Paediatric HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa: clinical presentation and 2-year outcomes stratified by age group.

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OBJECTIVES: To examine age differences in mortality and programme attrition amongst paediatric patients treated in four African HIV programmes.

Ben-Farhat J Gale M Szumilin E Balkan S Poulet E Pujades-Rodríguez M
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 2013 Sep ; 18(9); 1065-1074. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12142. Epub 2013 06 20
Africa HIV antiretroviral treatment children outcome assessment

Multidrug- and isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis in three high HIV burden African regions.

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SETTING: Despite major progress in the surveillance of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), data are lacking for many low-resource countries.

Sanchez-Padilla E Ardizzoni E Sauvageot D Ahoua L Martin A Varaine F Adatu-Engwau F Akeche G Salaniponi F Bonnet M
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2013 Aug ; 17(8); 1036-42. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.12.0842. Epub 2014 02 10

Tolerability and safety of artesunate-amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine fixed dose combinations for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: two open-label, randomized trials in Nimba County, Liberia.

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BACKGROUND: Safety surveillance of widely used artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is essential, but tolerability data in the over five years age group are largely anecdotal.

Schramm B Valeh P Baudin E Mazinda CS Smith R Pinoges L Sundaygar T Zolia YM Jones JJ Comte E Bruneel A Branger M Jullien V Carn G Kiechel JR Ashley EA Guérin PJ
Malaria journal 2013 Jul 17; 12 250. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-250. Epub 2013 07 17
Schramm B Valeh P Baudin E Mazinda CS Smith R Pinoges L Dhorda M Boum Y Sundaygar T Zolia YM Jones JJ Comte E Houzé P Jullien V Carn G Kiechel JR Ashley EA Guérin PJ
Malaria journal 2013 Jul 17; 12 251. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-251. Epub 2013 07 17