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Review

Protection from killed whole-cell cholera vaccines: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Xu H, Tiffany A, Luquero FJ, Kanungo S, Bwire G,  et al.
2025-07-13 • Lancet Global Health
2025-07-13 • Lancet Global Health

BACKGROUND

Killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccines (kOCVs) are a standard prevention and control measure in cholera-endemic areas and during outbreaks and human...

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Pre-Print

Description of a large and deadly measles epidemic, Yakusu health zone, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018-2019: A retrospective study

Alé F, Riccio ME, Katuala Y, Maloko T, Tonamou G,  et al.
2025-06-16 • Research Square
2025-06-16 • Research Square

BACKROUND

A large measles outbreak occurred in Yakusu Health Zone, Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Jan 2018 and June 2019. We describe the extent of t...

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Research

Reaching the “last mile”: describing community clinics implemented to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Peel region, Canada

So J, Nicholson-Baker D, Rahman S, Ramuscak N, Reid A,  et al.
2025-05-27 • BMC Public Health
2025-05-27 • BMC Public Health

BACKGROUND

COVID-19 hit Canada hard and exacerbated health inequities, notably among ethnoracially minoritized populations. By August 2021, some areas in Peel r...

Conference Material
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Abstract

DTP1-3 and MCV1 vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: mapping zero-dose and under-vaccinated children

Utazi CE, Chamberlain HR, Kunnumpurathu-Sasi K, Cunningham A, Lazar AN,  et al.
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
Conference Material
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Slide Presentation

PCV rollout in Somaliland: modelling introduction in a low-coverage setting

Barnsley G, Hassan AI, Hergeye MA, Ibrahim S, Pell C,  et al.
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
Conference Material
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Slide Presentation

Operational feasibility and acceptability of the addition of R21 malaria vaccine and intermittent preventive therapy for children to existing malaria control initiatives in Kule, Ethiopia

Girma Y, Lavilla KM, Tassawar A, Siferaw K, Koang D,  et al.
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
Conference Material
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Slide Presentation

DTP1-3 and MCV1 vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: mapping zero-dose and under-vaccinated children

Utazi CE, Chamberlain HR, Kunnumpurathu-Sasi K, Cunningham A, Lazar AN,  et al.
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
Conference Material
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Abstract

Operational feasibility and acceptability of the addition of R21 malaria vaccine and intermittent preventive therapy for children to existing malaria control initiatives in Kule, Ethiopia

Girma Y, Lavilla KM, Tassawar A, Siferaw K, Koang D,  et al.
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
Conference Material
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Abstract

PCV rollout in Somaliland: modelling introduction in a low-coverage setting

Barnsley G, Hassan AI, Hergeye MA, Ibrahim S, Pell C,  et al.
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
2025-05-22 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025
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Research

Mental health and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health-related university students: a cross-sectional multi-center study

Khongyot T, Takyi A, Ndzeshang DS, Fai KGN, Win TZ,  et al.
2025-05-19 • Tropical Medicine and Health
2025-05-19 • Tropical Medicine and Health

BACKGROUND

The mental health problems during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have influenced their decision to receive the COVID-19 vaccine...

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Research

Using an analogue-digital hybrid clinical data management platform during a two-dose preventive Ebola virus vaccine trial in Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Brindle HE, Tetsa-Tata D, Edwards T, Choi EML, Kasonia K,  et al.
2025-05-02 • PLOS Global Public Health
2025-05-02 • PLOS Global Public Health

Clinical trials in settings with intermittent or non-existent internet and power connectivity, for example ...

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Letter

DR Congo's conflict and cholera: a call for ring vaccination

Al-Rabeeah AA, Ebrahim SH, Mwamba D, Ditekemena J, Christou C,  et al.
2025-04-04 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2025-04-04 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
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Research

High confidence and demand for hepatitis E vaccine during an outbreak in Bentiu, South Sudan: A qualitative study

Koyuncu A, Asilaza KV, Rumunu J, Wamala J, Gitahi P,  et al.
2025-03-06 • PLOS Global Public Health
2025-03-06 • PLOS Global Public Health

In 2021 in response to an outbreak of hepatitis E in Bentiu internally displaced persons camp the South Sudanese Ministry of Health with support from Médecins Sans Frontières implemen...

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Research

Low-dose yellow fever vaccine in adults in Africa

Kimathi D, Juan-Giner A, Bob NS, Orindi B, Namulwana ML,  et al.
2025-02-20 • New England Journal of Medicine
2025-02-20 • New England Journal of Medicine

BACKGROUND

Yellow fever vaccine is highly effective with a single dose, but vaccine supply is limited. The minimum dose requirements for seroconversion remain u...

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Research

The effectiveness of two doses of recombinant hepatitis E vaccine in response to an outbreak in Bentiu, South Sudan: a case–control and bias indicator study

Nesbitt RC, Kinya Asilaza V, Alvarez C, Gitahi P, Nkemenang P,  et al.
2025-01-08 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2025-01-08 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a leading cause of acute viral hepatitis, particularly in Asia and Africa, where HEV genotypes 1 and 2 are prevalen...

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Research

Effect of mass campaigns with full and fractional doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Pneumosil) on the reduction of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage in Niger: a three-arm, open-label, cluster-randomised trial

Coldiron ME, Soumana I, Baudin E, Langendorf C, Mamiafo Tchoula C,  et al.
2025-01-08 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2025-01-08 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND

In settings with low pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) coverage, multi-age cohort mass campaigns could increase population immunity, and fractiona...

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Research

Effectiveness of the primary Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine against the risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease: a meta-analysis of individual participant data

Pelzer PT, Stuck L, Martinez L, Richards AS, Acuña-Villaorduña C,  et al.
2024-12-19 • Lancet Microbe
2024-12-19 • Lancet Microbe

BACKGROUND

Tuberculosis vaccine trials using disease as the primary endpoint are large, time consuming, and expensive. An earlier immunological measure of the p...

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Research

Experiences and perceptions of migrant populations in South Africa on COVID-19 immunization: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Mukumbang FC, Ndlovu S, Adebiyi BO
2024-11-12 • BMC Public Health
2024-11-12 • BMC Public Health

INTRODUCTION

Migrant populations (asylum seekers, permit holders, refugees, and undocumented migrants) living in South Africa face various individual, social, a...

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Research

rVSV-ZEBOV vaccination in people with pre-existing immunity to Ebolavirus: an open-label safety and immunogenicity study in Guinean communities affected by Ebola virus disease (l’essai proches)

Watson CH, Gsell PS, Hall Y, Camacho A, Riveros X,  et al.
2024-11-07 • BMC Medicine
2024-11-07 • BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND

Zaire Ebolavirus disease (EVD) outbreaks can be controlled using rVSV-ZEBOV vaccination and other public health measures. People in high-risk areas m...

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Research

Dynamic factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Cameroon between 2021 and 2022

Tchiasso D, Mendjime P, Nana Wandji BS, Yuya F, Stanton AM,  et al.
2024-10-24 • Journal of Public Health In Africa
2024-10-24 • Journal of Public Health In Africa

BACKGROUND

Lit...