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The Belgian commitment to pharmaceutical quality: a model policy to improve quality assurance of medicines available through humanitarian and development programs

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2018
Today, a combination of globalization of pharmaceutical production, lack of regulatory harmonization, and weakness of Medicines Regulatory Authorities, creates the “perfect conditions” for poor-quality medicine to circulate in the global market and to ...
Raffaella Ravinetto, Tim Roosen, Catherine Dujardin   +2 more
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Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survival in Western Kenya: Reduction in Early Deaths and Treatment Abandonment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An earlier study on children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Kenya reported a low event‐free survival (EFS), excess treatment abandonment, and high induction mortality.
Gilbert Olbara, George Bogonko, Festus Njuguna, Sandra Langat, Martha Kipngetich, Dennis Njenga, Gertjan Johannes Kaspers, Terry Allen Vik   +7 more
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The modification of risk assessment ranking when considering the female population and children in the INFORM risk index for selected countries

Scientific Reports
The INFORM (Index for Risk Management) identifies risk hotspots by assessing Hazard and Exposure, Vulnerability, and Coping capacity across 76 indicators. However, the original index may have overlooked the specific vulnerabilities of women and children,
Yasir Shafiq, Ameer Muhammad, Saba Noor, Kantesh Kumar, Ume e Aimen Chhipa, Martina Valente, Junaid Razzak, Luca Ragazzoni, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Phuong Pham   +9 more
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Living on the Edge: Young People, Social Work and Climate Policy and Action

ASEAN Social Work Journal
Today’s young people will be on the frontline of experiencing the worst effects of the climate crisis as they age in a world in which climate-induced disasters will be increasing in intensity and frequency unless ‘net zero’ is reached before the ...
Lena Dominelli
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ASSIST: Refinement of a Benefits Navigator Intervention Among Low‐Income Pediatric Oncology Families

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Children with cancer living in poverty experience worse survival and quality of life. Interventions connecting low‐income families to benefits (e.g., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] improve health outcomes; yet nearly 50% of SNAP‐eligible pediatric oncology families are unenrolled.
Puja J. Umaretiya, Selena Murcia Mendez, Jennifer Kellett, Sarah Wright, Marisel Ponton, Robin T. Higashi, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Ayesha Zia, Joanne Wolfe, Sandi L. Pruitt, Kira Bona   +11 more
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Misperception of Body Weight After Childhood Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Misperception of body weight can negatively impact the weight management efforts of childhood cancer survivors (CCSs). Both being overweight or underweight are associated with chronic health conditions commonly observed in CCS; therefore, accurate weight perception is critical for reducing long‐term health risks.
Fabiën N. Belle, Tomáš Sláma, Eva Haegler‐Laube, Reto D. Kurmann, Gabriela M. Kuster, Christoph Saner, Eva Scheler, Yara Shoman, Christina Schindera   +8 more
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Botulism in the Highlands: Understanding the High-Altitude Effect

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Botulism is a foodborne, life-threatening neuroparalytic disease caused by Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacteria. Its incidence is unknown and underestimated due to missed diagnoses, especially in remote areas.
Momen Almomen, Ziad Memish
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Humanitarian health education and training state-of-the-art: a scoping review

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionIn the past decade, humanitarian emergencies have been increasing, leading to an higher demand for humanitarian health professionalization.
Awsan Bahattab, Awsan Bahattab, Monica Trentin, Monica Trentin, Ives Hubloue, Francesco Della Corte, Francesco Della Corte, Luca Ragazzoni, Luca Ragazzoni   +8 more
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Immunoglobulin Depletion and Recovery Following Blinatumomab in Infants With KMT2A‐Rearranged ALL

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adding blinatumomab to standard chemotherapy for infants with KMT2A‐rearranged acute B‐cell lymphoblastic leukemia (KMT2A‐r B‐ALL) improves outcomes. Although blinatumomab impairs immunoglobulin G (lgG) production, increasing infection susceptibility, IgG recovery remains poorly understood.
Miguel Vieira Martins, Paola de Lorenzo, Rishi S. Kotecha, Andishe Attarbaschi, Gabriele Escherich, Karsten Nysom, Jan Stary, Alina Ferster, Benoit Brethon, Franco Locatelli, Martin Schrappe, Peggy E. Scholte‐van Houtem, Maria G. Valsecchi, Rob Pieters, Inge M. van der Sluis   +14 more
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Emergency, critical and operative care in Afghanistan: pathways to overcoming fragmentation and strengthening access in a post-conflict setting—a mixed-method study

BMJ Public Health
Introduction Emergency, critical and operative (ECO) services are essential pillars of a resilient healthcare system and are integral to achieving universal health coverage, especially in post-conflict low- and middle-income countries like Afghanistan ...
Francesco Barone-Adesi, Mohammad Hanif, Luca Ragazzoni, Paolo Rodi, Francesca Bocchini, Ilaria Mencattini, Ghulam Ali, Mirza Sayed Nadeem, Mohammad T Alizai, Alessandro Lamberti-Castronuovo, Martina Valente   +10 more
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