Médecins Sans Frontières
Residents working with Médecins Sans Frontières: training and pilot evaluation
... ARG is anesthesia consultant at Maggiore Hospital, School of Medicine, in Novara and postdoctoral fellow at CRIMEDIM, Novara, Italy. She was first investigator and training program developer and contributed to the ...
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Treating Syrian refugees with diabetes and hypertension in Shatila refugee camp, Lebanon: Médecins Sans Frontières model of care and treatment outcomes
... Background: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing primary care for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which have been increasing in low to middle-income countries, in the Shat[r] ...
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Offering general pediatric care during the hard times of the 2014 Ebola outbreak: looking back at how many came and how well they fared at a Médecins Sans Frontières referral hospital in rural Sierra Leone
... and Médecins sans ...(LUXOR), Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels Operational Center, Luxembourg; the Centre for Operational Research, The Union, Paris, France; the Centre for ...
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Cardiovascular disease risk and prevention amongst Syrian refugees: mixed methods study of Médecins Sans Frontières programme in Jordan
... 2014, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started provid- ing NCD care in two outpatient primary healthcare clinics in Northern Jordan, specifically targeting urban Syrian refu- ...
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Cardiovascular Disease among Syrian refugees: a descriptive study of patients in two Médecins Sans Frontières clinics in northern Lebanon
... As the global burden increases, medical humanitarian organisations, such as Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), are increasingly faced with patients needing care for NCDs, including those with ASCVD. ...
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Routine parallel diagnosis of malaria using microscopy and the malaria rapid diagnostic test SD 05FK60: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières in Myanmar
... Background: Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are commonly used in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) programmes to detect acute malaria infection. Programmes in regions with both Plasmodium ...
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Leading the charge: Médecins Sans Frontières receives the 2015 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award
... Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) was among the first organizations to respond to early reports of a hemorrhagic fever of unknown origin in ...
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International Issues: Teleneurology in humanitarian crisesLessons from the Médecins Sans Frontières experience
... Humanitarian emergencies defined by armed conflict, political strife, famine, or natural disaster can devastate populations rapidly. Neurologic disorders accompany these complex humanitarian emergencies but often go ...
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Provision of antiretroviral treatment in conflict settings: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières
... The primary benefit of introducing ART in conflict- affected settings is the reduction of HIV-related morbid- ity and mortality in affected populations, giving hope and health to people [r] ...
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Brief mental health interventions in conflict and emergency settings: an overview of four Médecins Sans Frontières – France programs
... Our model, using a variety of mental health care providers – profes- sionals and specially-trained local counselors – allowed us to care for a large number of patients in difficult conte[r] ...
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Providing surgery in a war-torn context: the Médecins Sans Frontières experience in Syria
... these conditions. There were seven pre-requisites: i) ad- equate infrastructure, (including protection from the external environment and appropriate electricity and lighting), ii) adequa[r] ...
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Patent challenges in the procurement and supply of generic new essential medicines and lessons from HIV in the southern African development community (SADC) region.
... ARV medicines patent protection meant that even when Indian generic companies started to produce gen- eric low-priced ARVs in the late nineties, many people living with HIV in other countries where those prod- ucts were ...
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Mental health problems among conflict-affected adults in Grozny, Chechnya: a qualitative study
... The international medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders; MSF) has been providing individual mental health counseling in Chechnya since 2003. In preparati[r] ...
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Surgical care for the direct and indirect victims of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
... In this paper we report on surgical interventions carried out by Médecins sans Frontières in Masisi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo to contribute to the scarce evidence base [r] ...
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Screening of asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease among refugee/migrant children and youths in Italy
... AMVL: Anterior Mitral Valve Leaflet; HIC: High Income Country; LIC: Low Income Country; MIC: Medium Income Country; MR: Mitral Regurgitation; MSF: Médecins Sans Frontières; MV: Mitral Va[r] ...
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SMS-based smartphone application for disease surveillance has doubled completeness and timeliness in a limited-resource setting – evaluation of a 15-week pilot program in Central African Republic (CAR)
... Shortly after the onset of the unrest, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) deployed its mission in CAR and in 2015 the MOH and MSF explored how to support the disrupted national disease surve[r] ...
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Dangerous crossing: demographic and clinical features of rescued sea migrants seen in 2014 at an outpatient clinic at Augusta Harbor, Italy
... The extraordinary wave of sea migration in 2014 represented a challenge for Italian authorities in terms of reception capacity and providing adequate medical assistance. In addition, the Ebola epidemics in West Africa ...
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Prevalence of and risk factors for hepatitis C virus antibody among people who inject drugs in Cambodia: a national biological and behavioral survey
... CI: Confidence interval; HCV: Hepatitis C virus; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; IBBS: Biological and behavioral survey; IQR: Interquartile range; MSF: Médecins Sans Frontières; NECHR[r] ...
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Malaria control in South Sudan, 2006–2013: strategies, progress and challenges
... MDGs: Millennium development goals; MIP: Malaria in pregnancy; MIS: Malaria indicator survey; MoH: Ministry of health; MPR: Malaria programme review; MSF: Médecins Sans Frontières; NBeG:[r] ...
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Low tech, high impact: care for premature neonates in a district hospital in Burundi A way forward to decrease neonatal mortality
... In view of this high mortality rate, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with the Burundian Ministry of Health, started an NICU in Kabezi District. This unit was unique because—unlike ...
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