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MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts

MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts

On 3-4 May in Nairobi, Kenya, MSF gathered staff from our projects with experts from academia, clinical practice and the non-governmental sector to consider key issues in humanitarian paediatrics. These included:

Vaccination and vaccine-preventable diseases: Amid post-Covid-19 global setbacks in child vaccination coverage, sessions spotlighted recent increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks, potential new vaccination strategies and emergency responses, and MSF’s role in vaccine advocacy and catch-up campaigns.

Nutrition: Talks covered the nexus of nutrition with other key conference topics, the latest malnutrition guidance and tools, and MSF’s priorities in nutritional care.

Paediatric HIV: With half of all HIV-positive children globally not receiving antiretroviral therapy, presenters reviewed the latest paediatric testing/treatment recommendations and discussed barriers and potential solutions to implementation, nutritional challenges in children with HIV, and systems strengthening for preventing and monitoring paediatric HIV.

Click below to read the abstracts. And stay tuned for more conference content, coming soon.

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Evaluation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) component of MSF'S HIV project in Guinea, 2022

Bigirimana T, Thind A, Hawa Diallo O, Kourouma A, Burzio C,  et al.
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
In 2016, UNAIDS identified the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) as a significant challenge in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Guinea....
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Empowering transformation: Harnessing child and youth narratives to propel meaningful and sustainable health and well-being in Lesotho

Mairos Ferreira S, Muthengi K, Mohale M, Mokhameleli S, Mathosi L
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
This research emerges from Lesotho's diverse landscapes, where children’s stories remain largely unheard in the realm of health policy. The study aims to ha...
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Formation virtuelle comme catalyser d'amelioration des soins neonataux au centre de sante de reference de douentza au Mali

Rubona F, Ibongu E, Bah AJ, Dianouni F, Wepnyui H
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Le Centre de Sante de Référence de Douentza fait face à des nombreux défis des soins néonataux exacerbés par le contexte d’accès très limités. Plusieurs init...

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Incidence and contextual analysis of neonatal hypothermia at Garan Gamawa Maternal and Child Health Clinic in Kano State, Nigeria, 2022

Danno K, Worku DT, Adjaho I, Ale F, Katuala Y,  et al.
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Hypothermia is a major risk factor for high neonatal mortality. In January, night-time temperatures in Kano State can drop below 20°C. We conducted a study ...
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Reducing neonatal mortality in Abs General Hospital, Yemen

Gonzalez Arias M, Buero MM, Salem Z, Yang SL, Valori AV
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-04 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Since 2015, MSF OCBA has supported Abs General Hospital (AGH) with an 88-bed capacity neonatal ward. In the recent years, annual admissions in the service e...
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Stimnut: Innovative community action research on psychosocial stimulation to improve care fo severely malnourished children in Koutiala, Mali

Bossard C, Payotte S, Scarpa G, Diallo AK, Lissouba P,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Early psychosocial stimulation for infants in precarious situations can yield both short- and long-term benefits to cognitive and social development. Compre...
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The implementation of continuous positive airway pressure in a humanitarian content: The experience of Médecins sans Frontières in Mosul, Iraq

Haj-Hassan TA, Amer M, Al-Jubori K, Salim H, Hameed A,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) is recommended for neonates with respiratory distress. CPAP is widely used in high-income countries, but less so ...
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Towards an understanding of resurgent measles outbreaks in Kismayo, Somalia: A mixed method investigation of measles burden and vaccination coverage during a 2020-2021 measles outbreak

Lau DK, Seebacher S, Abdi AM, Bishar S, Nur MB,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Kismayo is a city in southern Somalia and the capital of Jubaland State. In 2020, the Jubaland State Ministry of Health (MoH) recorded 1094 measles cases: a...
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Piloting Tom Brown, a locally produced supplementary therapeutic food for the management of moderate acute malnutrition in Gombe State, Nigeria

Ostrowski JJ, Parikh K, Umar A
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Over 50,000 children in Nigeria’s Gombe state have moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and are at risk of deteriorating to severe acute malnutrition (SAM). An...
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Probiotiques chez les enfants avec malnutrition aiguë sévère non compliquée (PRUSAM): Un essai contrôlé randomisé en République Démocratique du Congo

Mbusa Kambale R, Ntagerwa Ntagazibwa J, Bwija Kasengi J, Burume Zigashane A, Nancy Francisca I,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
CONTEXTE
La malnutrition aigüe sévère (MAS) contribue annuellement au décès d’un million d’enfants. Les diarrhées et la pneumonie sont les principales morbidités associées à ces décè...
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Évaluation des occasions manquées de vaccination (OMV) chez les enfants de 0-59 mois dans 4 établissements de santé de Matoto, Guinée

Shyaka A, Kabongo F, Tolno C, Barry I, Bachy C
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024

CONTEXTE ET OBJECTIFS

Les épidémies de maladies évitables par la vaccination sont récurrentes en Guinée. En 2020, Matoto a enregistré 86% des cas de rougeole rapportés à Conakry...

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Collective adaptive learning on integrating the care pathway for vulnerable infants under 6 months of age and their mothers in South Sudan

Traore-Hebie M, Nasira Boi A, Poni Jackson M, Sasa N, Wendo D,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Globally, one in four infants is born too small or too early and is therefore at increased risk of poor growth and development, ill-health and death. In Sou...
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Decentralised model of care (DMC) in response to a diphtheria outbreak in Kano, Nigeria: Strategy implementation

Juma H, Worku DT, Evboumwan PE, Katuala Y, Mbuyi Y,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Diphtheria is a vaccine preventable disease caused by toxicogenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Since declaration of an outbreak in Nigeria in December 2022,...

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Mini-Lab—MSF's simplified bacteriology laboratory for low-resource settings
Mini-Lab—MSF's simplified bacteriology laboratory for low-resource settings
Resistance to antibiotics is a growing public health crisis, especially in countries with fragile health systems and in regions at war. One key limitation in most of these settings is a lack of clinical bacteriology laboratory capacity, which leaves medical providers without ways to accurately diagnose patient infections and to tailor antibiotic treatment accordingly. To help fill this critical gap, MSF and partners have developed the Mini-Lab—a small-scale, standalone lab that is easy to transport, set up and operate by staff after only a short training. Its six modules are stocked with everything needed to diagnose common bloodstream and urinary tract infections and to perform antibiotic sensitivity testing using methods adapted to extremely hot climates and remote settings. With Mini-Lab now being rolled out to selected MSF projects, here we highlight the background to its development and some of the research behind the bacteriological tests it incorporates.
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Costs, cost-effectiveness, and financing of tuberculosis treatment

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's deadliest infectious disease, and the leading killer of people with HIV. TB is curable, but it can be difficult to diagnose and tough to treat, especially for increasingly prevalent drug-resistant TB. In 2023, 22,700 people started TB treatment in MSF programs. Understanding the costs and cost-effectiveness associated with TB treatment and innovations, ranging from TB diagnostics and medications to TB care models, can help to plan resource needs and allocate resources effectively. Analyzing financing mechanisms can support developing sustainable funding models for TB control.

This collection spotlights articles by MSF and collaborators to analyze and document the costs of care, particularly diagnostics and medications.

The endTB project
The endTB project

The endTB project aims to find shorter, less toxic and more effective treatments for ‘multidrug-resistant TB’ (MDR-TB) through:

  • access to new drugs
  • two clinical trials
  • advocacy at national and global levels

Covering 18 countries, the project is a partnership between Partners In Health, Médecins Sans Frontières, Interactive Research & Development and financial partners Unitaid and the Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) of MSF. This collection contains the final and intermediate results of the studies, advocacy reports, and study presentations. For more information about the endTB project, visit https://endtb.org/.

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