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Mortality beyond emergency threshold in a silent crisis– results from a population-based mortality survey in Ouaka prefecture, Central African Republic, 2020

Conflict and Health, 2021
Background The Central African Republic (CAR) suffers a protracted conflict and has the second lowest human development index in the world. Available mortality estimates vary and differ in methodology.
Eve Robinson, Lawrence Lee, Leslie F. Roberts, Aurelie Poelhekke, Xavier Charles, Adelaide Ouabo, Jorieke Vyncke, Cono Ariti, Mariette Claudia Adame Gbanzi, Martial Tanguy Ouakouma, Nell Gray, Maura Daly, Kate White, Sam Templeman, Mia Hejdenberg, Maaike Hersevoort, Sibyl Jade Pena, Anna Kuehne   +17 more
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High burden of malaria and anemia among tribal pregnant women in a chronic conflict corridor in India

Conflict and Health, 2017
Background With more than 200 million cases a year, malaria is an important global health concern, especially among pregnant women. The forested tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Chhattisgarh in India are affected by malaria and by an on ...
Gustavo Corrêa, Mrinalini Das, Rama Kovelamudi, Nagendra Jaladi, Charlotte Pignon, Kalyan Vysyaraju, Usha Yedla, Vijya Laxmi, Pavani Vemula, Vijaya Gowthami, Hemant Sharma, Daniel Remartinez, Stobdan Kalon, Kirrily de Polnay, Martin De Smet, Petros Isaakidis   +15 more
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Effect of large-scale mass drug administration for malaria on mortality and morbidity in Angumu health zone, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Malaria Journal, 2023
Background Angumu health zone in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, is a highly malaria-endemic area with an overburdened health system and hosting internally displaced persons (IDP).
Lise Grout, Yves Katuala Givo, Trish Newport, Tom Adoum Mahamat, Priscillah Gitahi, Jean Jacques Mandagot, Michel Quere, Sophie Wodon, Iza Ciglenecki, Mathieu Bastard, Francis Baelongandi, Louis Tshulo, Herman Jakisa Uluba, Esther Sterk, Etienne Gignoux   +14 more
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Challenges and successes in the implementation of option B+ to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in southern Swaziland

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all pregnant/ breastfeeding women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), known as Prevention of mother-to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Option B+ (PMTCTB+), is being scaled up in most ...
David Etoori, Bernhard Kerschberger, Nelly Staderini, Mpumelelo Ndlangamandla, Bonisile Nhlabatsi, Kiran Jobanputra, Simangele Mthethwa-Hleza, Lucy Anne Parker, Sifiso Sibanda, Edwin Mabhena, Munyaradzi Pasipamire, Serge Mathurin Kabore, Barbara Rusch, Christine Jamet, Iza Ciglenecki, Roger Teck   +15 more
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Epidemiological characteristics and real‐world treatment outcomes of hepatitis C among HIV/HCV co‐infected patients in Myanmar: A prospective cohort study

Health Science Reports, 2023
Background and Aims In Myanmar, public sector treatment programs for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were nonexistent until June 2017. WHO highlights the importance of simplification of HCV service delivery through task‐shifting among health workers ...
Thein Min Swe, Derek. C. Johnson, Htay Thet Mar, Phone Thit, Tobias Homan, Cherry May Chu, Phyu Ei Mon, Thin Thin Thwe, Kyi Pyar Soe, Win Le Shwe Sin Ei, Nyan Lynn Tun, Kyaw Zay Lwin, Hayk Karakozian, Khin Sanda Aung, Aude Nguyen, Iza Ciglenecki, Natalia Tamayo, Anne Loarec   +17 more
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High levels of mortality, exposure to violence and psychological distress experienced by the internally displaced population of Ein Issa camp prior to and during their displacement in Northeast Syria, November 2017

Conflict and Health, 2019
Background War in Syria has lasted for more than eight years, causing population displacement, collapse of medical and public health services, extensive violence and countless deaths.
Larissa Vernier, Vanessa Cramond, Maartje Hoetjes, Annick Lenglet, Thomas Hoare, Rami Malaeb, Antonio Isidro Carrion Martin   +6 more
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Patient and health-care provider experience of a person-centred, multidisciplinary, psychosocial support and harm reduction programme for patients with harmful use of alcohol and drug-resistant tuberculosis in Minsk, Belarus

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Tuberculosis (TB) often concentrates in groups of people with complex health and social issues, including alcohol use disorders (AUD). Risk of TB, and poor TB treatment outcomes, are substantially elevated in people who have AUD. Médecins sans
Rebecca Elizabeth Harrison, Volha Shyleika, Christian Falkenstein, Ekaterine Garsevanidze, Olga Vishnevskaya, Knut Lonnroth, Öznur Sayakci, Animesh Sinha, Norman Sitali, Alena Skrahina, Beverley Stringer, Cecilio Tan, Htay Thet Mar, Sarah Venis, Dmitri Vetushko, Kerri Viney, Raman Vishneuski, Antonio Isidro Carrion Martin   +17 more
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Neutron Scattering Evidence for a Model of Dynamic Clustering in Molten Triacylglycerols

Journal of Food Process Engineering, Volume 49, Issue 6, June 2026.
Number of molecules per cluster as a function of temperature. The error bars combine uncertainties from the data and from the fit to the peak functions. (A) from D5PPP; (B) from PPP. The dotted line indicates the model predictive interval and the dash‐dot line the observation prediction interval, both at 95% confidence.
E. Pulatsu, C. Adams, N. L. Green, D. Rousseau, A. G. Marangoni, G. Mazzanti   +5 more
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The blast wounded of Raqqa, Syria: observational results from an MSF-supported district hospital

Conflict and Health, 2019
Background In June 2017, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched a military operation to retake the city of Raqqa, Syria, from the so-called Islamic State. The city population incurred mass numbers of wounded. In the post-offensive period,
Jennifer OKeeffe, Larissa Vernier, Vanessa Cramond, Shazeer Majeed, Antonio Isidro Carrion Martin, Maartje Hoetjes, Mohana Amirtharajah   +6 more
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Treating HIV-associated cytomegalovirus retinitis with oral valganciclovir and intra-ocular ganciclovir by primary HIV clinicians in southern Myanmar: a retrospective analysis of routinely collected data

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background Cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMVR) is an opportunistic infection in HIV-infected people. Intraocular or intravenous ganciclovir was gold standard for treatment; however, oral valganciclovir replaced this in high-income countries. Low- and middle-
Jillian Murray, Adelene Hilbig, Theint Thida Soe, Win Le Shwe Sin Ei, Kyi Pyar Soe, Iza Ciglenecki   +5 more
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