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ASSESSMENT OF CRISIS READINESS TO MOVE A PATIENT FROM THE AIRPORT WITH SUSPECTED EBOLA

Transactions of the VŠB: Technical University of Ostrava, Safety Engineering Series, 2019
The aim of this article is to verify the readiness of patient transport from the airport with symptoms for Ebola disease by the rescue services of the Integrated Rescue System of the Czech Republic.
Marta BLAHOVÁ, Martin HROMADA
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Sustained mental health outcomes from the youth readiness intervention: A four‐year effectiveness follow‐up of a hybrid type II trial in Sierra Leone

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Strategies to expand access to care and sustain evidence‐based mental health interventions (EBIs) must be tested within novel delivery platforms to extend the reach of services in fragile and conflict‐affected settings. Integration into broader development programs may help maintain long‐term effects.
Wijnand Van Den Boom, Kathryn Noon, Shuangshuang Yang, Renee Menart, Fatoma Momoh, Abdulai Jawo Bah, Matias Placencio‐Castro, Theresa S. Betancourt   +7 more
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Precarity, clinical labour and graduation from Ebola clinical research in West Africa

Global Bioethics, 2019
The provision of gifts and payments for healthy volunteer subjects remains an important topic in global health research ethics. This paper provides empirical insights into theoretical debates by documenting participants' perspectives on an Ebola vaccine ...
Arsenii Alenichev, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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Plastics and labor: The case of disposable medical plastics

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Plastics are ubiquitous in the contemporary practice of medicine, where they are tied to notions of hygiene and quality of care. However, when plastics first infiltrated global medical practice, they did so because of considerations related to patient comfort and durability.
Gauri Pathak
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Ebola virus persistence: implications for human-to-human transmission and new outbreaks [PDF]

Exploration of Medicine
Ebola virus (EBOV) infection usually leads to highly lethal EBOV disease (EVD) with associated viraemia. Viraemia is cleared in those that do survive, however, EBOV may remain hidden in the testes and other immune privileged niches (IPNs) where it can ...
Oliver Meek, Kimberly Fornace, Miles W. Carroll   +2 more
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A multiplex assay to detect mosquito species, bloodmeal host source and Plasmodium in malaria vectors using Nanopore amplicon sequencing

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Insectary‐reared mosquitoes were simultaneously assessed for species identification, bloodmeal source analysis and Plasmodium detection, using a single multiplexed sequencing run on the MinION sequencing platform. The method was applied to 150 insectary‐reared mosquitoes, representing nine species blood‐fed with five vertebrate hosts and 40 samples for
E. Abby Rogers, Dieunel Derilus, Christopher Sandi, Lisa Reimer, Audrey Lenhart, Lucy Mackenzie Impoinvil   +5 more
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How to learn from our mistakes: Communication of health crises

Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2016
Reviewing the communication during the health crises of the last thirty years is useful to verify that there are a number of repeated mistakes: untrained spokespeople with no communication skills, ambiguous messages, lack of communication plans for the ...
Javier Granda Revilla
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Does the Threat of Killing Gays Deter Foreign Aid: The Case of Uganda's 2014 Anti‐Homosexuality Act

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much attention has been drawn on Uganda in recent years due to the strengthening of its anti‐LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric. Our study explores the aid‐deterring effect of anti‐LGBTQ legislation in an experimental setting using the Synthetic Control Method.
Elissaios Papyrakis, Luca Tasciotti
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Three Acts of Resistance during the 2014–16 West Africa Ebola Epidemic: A Focus on Community Engagement

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2019
Community engagement is commonly regarded as a crucial entry point for gaining access and securing trust during humanitarian emergencies. In this article, we present three case studies of community engagement encounters during the West African Ebola ...
Frédéric Le Marcis, Luisa Enria, Sharon Abramowitz, Almudena-Mari Saez, Sylvain Landry B. Faye   +4 more
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Contemporary disasters may not kill more women than men: an empirical inquiry into sex‐differentiated fatalities in the twenty‐first century

Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the claim that women are disproportionately more likely to die in disasters by reviewing existing data sources and compiling new datasets on sex‐differentiated disaster fatalities in the twenty‐first century. The analysis is structured by disaster type, covering geophysical, meteorological, climatological, hydrological,
Olivier Rubin
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