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Child mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo : cross-sectional evidence of the effect of geographic location and prolonged conflict from a national household survey [PDF]

, 2014
Background The child mortality rate is a good indicator of development. High levels of infectious diseases and high child mortality make the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) one of the most challenging environments for health development in Sub ...
Mbela, Kisumbula, Mandungu, Tumwaka P., Tumwaka P Mandungu, Kisumbula Mbela, Kalambayi P Kayembe, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Jacques B O Emina, Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin, Banza B Kalambayi, Kalambayi Banza, Barthélémy‏, Nzita Kikhela, D., Emina Be-Ofuriyua, Jacques, Kayembe, Kalambayi P., Kikhela PD Nzita   +13 more
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Organisation of Health Care During an Outbreak of Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1999. [PDF]

, 2003
Organising health care was one of the tasks of the International Scientific and Technical Committee during the 1998-1999 outbreak in Durba/Watsa, in the north-eastern province (Province Orientale), Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tshioko, F., Mustin, J P, Olinda, Loku Abisa, Muyembe-Tamfum, J. J., Sleurs, H, Pirard, Patricia, Mustin, Jean Pierre, Kinuani, L\ue9on, Libande, M, Kinuani, L, Colebunders, Robert, Kinuani, Léon, Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques, Libande, Modeste, Tshomba, Antoine, Pirard, P, Colebunders, R., Mustin, J. P., Borchert, M., Tshomba, A., Sleurs, Hilde, Olinda, L. A., Borchert, M, Olinda, L A, Pirard, P., Sleurs, H., Tshomba, A, Kinuani, L., Libande, M., Colebunders, R, Tshioko, Florimond, Borchert, Matthias, Muyembe-Tamfum, J J, Tshioko, F, R Colebunders   +34 more
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Risk factors for Marburg hemorrhagic fever, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]

, 2003
We conducted two antibody surveys to assess risk factors for Marburg hemorrhagic fever in an area of confirmed Marburg virus transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Roth, Cathy, Ksiazek, T. G., Grein, Thomas, Bausch, Daniel G, Kond\ue9, Kader M., Ben Tugume, Modeste L. Libande, Pirard, Patricia, Pierre E. Rollin, Tugume, B., Colebunders, Robert, Bausch, Daniel G., Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques, Olinda, L. L., Rodier, G. R., Matthias Borchert, Kondé, Kader M, Talarmin, A., Ksiazek, Thomas G, Borchert, M., Rollin, P. E., Daniel G. Bausch, Pirard, P., Bausch, D. G., Rollin, Pierre E, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Rodier, Guénaël R, Swanepoel, R., Ksiazek, Thomas G., Swanepoel, Robert, Kader M. Kondé, Campbell, P., Campbell, Patricia, Thomas Grein, Libande, Modeste L, Grein, T., Muyembe-Tamfum, J. J., Robert Colebunders, Robert Swanepoel, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Patricia Pirard, Oyewale Tomori, Patricia Campbell, Tomori, Oyewale, Cathy Roth, Loku L. Olinda, Tugume, Ben, Colebunders, R., Talarmin, Antoine, Roth, C., Libande, M. L., Bertherat, E., Libande, Modeste L., Guénaël R. Rodier, Pirad, Patricia, Olinda, Loku L., Antoine Talarmin, Kondé, K. M., Rollin, Pierre E., Eric Bertherat, Tomori, O., Borchert, Matthias, Bertherat, Eric, Olinda, Loku L, Rodier, Gu\ue9na\uebl R.   +64 more
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Malnutrition among children under the age of five in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) : does geographic location matter? [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Although there are inequalities in child health and survival in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the influence of distal determinants such as geographic location on children’s nutritional status is still unclear.
Francesco P Cappuccio, Kandala Ngianga-Bakwin, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Jacques BO Emina, Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin, Emina Jacques BO, Madungu, Tumwaka P., Nzita Kikhela, D., Nzita Kikhela PD, Cappuccio, Francesco, Cappuccio Francesco P, Madungu Tumwaka P, Emina Be-Ofuriyua, Jacques, Tumwaka P Madungu, Kikhela PD Nzita   +14 more
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Feasibility and acceptability of injectable artesunate for the treatment of severe malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]

, 2016
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) changed its national policy for the treatment of severe malaria in both children and adults in 2012 from intravenous quinine to injectable artesunate.
Lengeler, Christian, Henry M. T. Ntuku, Tshefu, Antoinette K., Christian Lengeler, Ntuku Et Al. Malar J, Christian Burri, Antoinette K. Tshefu, Kalemwa, Didier M., Henry M. T. Ntuku, Gianfrancesco Ferrari, Burri, Christian, Didier M. Kalemwa, Ferrari, Gianfrancesco, Ntuku, Henry M. T.   +13 more
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Consuming democracy : local agencies and liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis focuses on liberal peace building in the DRC. The thesis takes a critical approach which emphasises local agencies and their engagements with liberal peace building. However, it seeks to bring this critique back to the institutions with which
De Goede, Meike J.
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Diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection, and fever among children in the Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]

, 2009
Several years of war have created a humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with extensive disruption of civil society, the economy and provision of basic services including health care.
Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin, Nzita Kikhela, D., Cappuccio, Francesco, Emina Be-Ofuriyua, Jacques   +3 more
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Reduced‐Port Versus Multi‐Port Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review, Meta‐Analysis, and Meta‐Regression

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Reduced‐port laparoscopic colectomy (RPLC) for colorectal cancer offers modest intraoperative benefits, including shorter operative time and lower blood loss, while maintaining comparable postoperative recovery, lymph node yield, and complication rates to multi‐port laparoscopic colectomy (MPLC).
Ayesha Shaukat, Saad Ashraf, Hamza Irfan, Muhammad Shahmeer Ullah Shah, Yumna Khabir, Santosh Sah, Um E. Abiha Batool, Muhammad Zain Ul Haq, Omer Bin Khalid Jamil, Aymar Akilimali   +9 more
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Picking up the bill - improving health-care utilisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo through user fee subsidisation: a before and after study. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: User fees have been shown to constitute a major barrier to the utilisation of health-care, particularly in low-income countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Importantly, such barriers can lead to the exclusion of vulnerable
van Griensven, Johan, Zachariah, Rony, Daniel Carter, Seb Mhatre, Maini, Rishma, Van den Bergh, Rafael, Mhatre, Seb, Tayler-Smith, Katie, Ousley, Janet, Katie Tayler-Smith, Carter, Daniel, Rishma Maini, Lara Ho, Janet Ousley, Ho, Lara, Johan van Griensven, Rafael Van den Bergh, Rony Zachariah   +17 more
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
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