Global health review
A weekly round-up of all the latest global health research from MSF projects and beyond
7 January 2022
Happy New Year and welcome to the first MSF Global Health Review of 2022!
This week, in Conflict and Health, MSF assessed the utility, feasibility, and sustainability of current and emerging vector control tools for malaria in emergency context settings through the use of a two-round Delphi survey involving 80 experts in the field. And Malaria Journal explores the prevalence of neglected malaria parasites in hard-to-reach areas of Odisha, India within the context of an ongoing special malaria elimination drive in the region.
In The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, MSF welcomes the addition of insulin analogues and SGLT2 inhibitors to the 22nd WHO Model List of Essential Medicines, which has the potential to reduce prices and address challenges with diabetes treatment in low-resource settings. And PLOS Global Public Health investigates the self-care knowledge, attitudes, and associated factors among outpatients with diabetes mellitus in Southeast Ethiopia.
In Acta Tropica, DNDi evaluates the on-site experience of a patient-centred roadmap for the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease in high-risk endemic areas of Colombia. In the same journal, DNDi further explores a multidisciplinary, collaborative, inter-agency and comprehensive approach for the control of Chagas disease in Guatemala which has the potential to increase community participation in vector control and patient care.
MSF publishes a study in PLOS One exploring the factors influencing loss to follow-up and death of paediatric patients in two hospital wards in North-West Nigeria. Meanwhile, a study in BMJ Global Health proposes oxygen systems strengthening as an intervention to reduce hospital-based childhood deaths due to pneumonia in low-resource settings.
Finally, Epicentre publishes a study in Comprehensive Psychiatry on mental health disorders in a mental health services-seeking population of children, adolescents, and young adults in the context of ongoing violence and displacement in northern Cameroon.
Research and innovation abstracts for MSF Scientific Days 2022 are welcome, and more information on how to submit can be found on the MSF Scientific Days website.
Best Regards,
Emma Levrau, Lydia Lampiri, Sreeshna Jagadeesan and Holly Baker with MSF-authored article assistance from Patricia Kahn and Amelia Zhao
Conflict, migration and health
BMJ • Opinion ***MSF AUTHOR***: Afghanistan is in crisis-urgent health and humanitarian aid must be facilitated
BMJ • Feature : How Yemen’s healthcare has been destroyed
Ebola
BMJ Global Health • Practice : Involving im/migrant community members for knowledge co-creation: the greater the desired involvement, the greater the need for capacity building
Global health
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs • other ***MSF AUTHOR***: MSF and Ebola in Nord Kivu: Positioning, Politics and Pertinence
BMJ Global Health • Editorial : The challenges of defining global health research
BMJ Global Health • Editorial : Five years from now, who will be setting the global health agenda
BMJ Global Health • Practice : Hierarchy of qualities in global health partnerships: a path towards equity and sustainability
BMJ Global Health • Practice : A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health
BMJ • Editorial : Violence against women and girls has long term health consequences
BMJ Global Health • Article : Understanding factors impacting global priority of emergency care: a qualitative policy analysis
BMJ Global Health • Article : Improving equity in the distribution and financing of health services in Mauritius, a small island state with deeply rooted welfare state standards
EClinicalMedicine • Comment ***MSF AUTHOR***: The silent and dangerous inequity around access to COVID-19 testing: A call to action
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs • other ***MSF AUTHOR***: Care Homes in Spain in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from an Intervention by Médecins Sans Frontières
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs • other ***MSF AUTHOR***: Epidemics of Neglect
HIV
BMJ Global Health • Article : Durability of effects from short-term economic incentives for clinic attendance among HIV positive adults in Tanzania: long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial
NEJM • Article : Dolutegravir as First- or Second-Line Treatment for HIV-1 Infection in Children
PLOS Global Public Health • Article : Accessing HIV care may lead to earlier ascertainment of comorbidities in health care clients in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs • other ***MSF AUTHOR***: Controlling an HIV Hotspot: A Realistic Ambition?
Infectious diseases
Acta Tropica • Comment ***DNDi AUTHOR***: A multidisciplinary, collaborative, inter-agency and comprehensive approach for the control of Chagas Disease as a public health problem in Guatemala
Conflict and Health • Article : Challenges and opportunities for infection prevention and control in hospitals in conflict-affected settings: a qualitative study
The Lancet Infectious Diseases • Article : All-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chennai, India: an observational study
BMJ • Feature : COVID-19: The significance of India’s emerging “hybrid immunity”
JAMA • Letter : Characteristics and Outcomes of Hospitalized Patients in South Africa During the COVID-19 Omicron Wave Compared With Previous Waves
PLOS Global Public Health • Article : The impact of COVID-19 pandemic course in the number and severity of hospitalizations for other natural causes in a large urban center in Brazil
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs • Editorial ***MSF AUTHOR***: Editors’Introduction: The Politics of Infectious Disease
BMJ Open • Article ***DNDi AUTHOR***: Assessing the impact of simplified HCV care on linkage to care amongst high-risk patients at primary healthcare clinics in Malaysia: a prospective observational study
Malaria
BMJ Global Health • Practice : Eliminating malaria in conflict zones: public health strategies developed in the Sri Lanka Civil War
Conflict and Health • Article : Malaria vector control tools in emergency settings: What do experts think? Results from a DELPHI survey
Malaria Journal • Article : Risk factors associated with malaria infection identified through reactive case detection in Zanzibar, 2012–2019
Malaria Journal • Article : Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria and prevalence of molecular markers associated with artemisinin and partner drug resistance in Uganda
Malaria Journal • Article : In vivo efficacy of anti-malarial drugs against clinical Plasmodium vivax malaria in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Malaria Journal • Article : Neglected malaria parasites in hard-to-reach areas of Odisha, India: implications in elimination programme
Malaria Journal • Article : Supporting countries to achieve their malaria elimination goals: the WHO E-2020 initiative
Malaria Journal • Article : Putative pleiotropic effects of the knockdown resistance (L1014F) allele on the life-history traits of Anopheles gambiae
Malaria Journal • Article : How radical is radical cure? Site-specific biases in clinical trials underestimate the effect of radical cure on Plasmodium vivax hypnozoites
Malaria Journal • Article : Hepatic safety and tolerability of cipargamin (KAE609), in adult patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a randomized, phase II, controlled, dose-escalation trial in sub-Saharan Africa
Malaria Journal • Article : The use of respondent‑driven sampling to assess febrile illness treatment-seeking behaviours among forest-goers in Cambodia and Vietnam
Malaria Journal • Article : Incidence and consequences of damage to insecticide-treated mosquito nets in Kenya
Malaria Journal • Article : Impact of COVID-19 on routine malaria indicators in rural Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis
Malaria Journal • Article : The presence of circulating antibody secreting cells and long-lived memory B cell responses to reticulocyte binding protein 1a in Plasmodium vivax patients
Malaria Journal • Article : Incidence of clinical malaria, acute respiratory illness, and diarrhoea in children in southern Malawi: a prospective cohort study
Malaria Journal • Article : Hyper-prevalence of submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections in a rural area of western Kenya with declining malaria cases
Malaria Journal • Article : Maplaria: a user friendly web-application for spatio-temporal malaria prevalence mapping
Malaria Journal • Article : Haematological response in experimental human Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria
Conflict and Health • Article ***MSF AUTHOR***: Malaria vector control tools in emergency settings: What do experts think? Results from a DELPHI survey
Maternal and child health
BMJ • Opinion ***MSF AUTHOR***: Afghanistan's babies and mothers must not be forgotten
PLOS One • Article ***MSF AUTHOR***: Exploring factors influencing patient mortality and loss to follow-up in two paediatric hospital wards in Zamfara, North-West Nigeria, 2016-2018
Journal of Pediatric Nursing • Correspondence : Echoes of Global Silence: Is there protection and safety for Venezuelan children and adolescents?
BMJ Global Health • Article : Using geospatial models to map zero-dose children: factors associated with zero-dose vaccination status before and after a mass measles and rubella vaccination campaign in Southern province, Zambia
BMJ Global Health • Article : Improving maternal and child health in Pakistan: a programme evaluation using a difference in difference analysis
BMJ Global Health • Article : Oxygen systems strengthening as an intervention to prevent childhood deaths due to pneumonia in low-resource settings: systematic review, meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness
JAMA • Article : Expanding Access to Medication Abortions
JAMA • Article : Effect of Mass Azithromycin Distributions on Childhood Growth in Niger: A Cluster-Randomized Trial
JAMA • Article : Association of Maternal Inflammation During Pregnancy With Birth Outcomes and Infant Growth Among Women With or Without HIV in India
BMJ Global Health • Commentary : Caffeine for the care of preterm infants in sub-Saharan Africa: a missed opportunity?
Mental health
Comprehensive Psychiatry • Article ***EPICENTRE AUTHOR***: A cross-sectional analysis of mental health disorders in a mental health services-seeking population of children, adolescents, and young adults in the context of ongoing violence and displacement in northern Cameroon
Neglected tropical diseases
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : High genome plasticity and frequent genetic exchange in Leishmania tropica isolates from Afghanistan, Iran and Syria
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Roadblocks in Chagas disease care in endemic and nonendemic countries: Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and the United States. The NET-Heart project
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Prevention and control of dengue and Chikungunya in Colombia: A cost-effectiveness analysis
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Ku80 is involved in telomere maintenance but dispensable for genomic stability in Leishmania mexicana
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Outcomes among children and adults at risk of severe dengue in Sri Lanka: Opportunity for outpatient case management in countries with high disease burden
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Genetic diversity of Leptospira isolates in Lao PDR and genome analysis of an outbreak strain
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Molecular and epidemiological characterization of recurrent Mycobacterium ulcerans infections in Benin
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Treponema pallidum genome sequencing from six continents reveals variability in vaccine candidate genes and dominance of Nichols clade strains in Madagascar
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Free-ranging pigs identified as a multi-reservoir of Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma congolense in the Vavoua area, a historical sleeping sickness focus of Côte d’Ivoire
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Soil-transmitted helminth infections and nutritional indices among Filipino schoolchildren
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : TIPS and splenorenal shunt for complications of portal hypertension in chronic hepatosplenic schistosomiasis–A case series and review of the literature
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Examination of the interior of sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) abdomen reveals novel cuticular structures involved in pheromone release: Discovering the manifold
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis before and after preventive chemotherapy initiation in the Philippines: A systematic review and meta-analysis
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Safely resuming neglected tropical disease control activities during COVID-19: Perspectives from Nigeria and Guinea
Tropical Medicine Journal • Article : Melioidosis Manifesting as Chronic Femoral Osteomyelitis in Patient from Ghana
Malaria Journal • Article : Clinical recovery of Macaca fascicularis infected with Plasmodium knowlesi
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Development of a sensitive competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for serodiagnosis of Burkholderia mallei, a Tier 1 select agent
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : The epidemiological characteristics of dengue in high-risk areas of China, 2013–2016
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : Molecular phylogeny of heritable symbionts and microbiota diversity analysis in phlebotominae sand flies and Culex nigripalpus from Colombia
Acta Tropica • Article ***DNDi AUTHOR***: On-site experience of a project to increase access to diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease in high-risk endemic areas of Colombia
Anales Ranm • Article ***DNDi AUTHOR***: Interruption of mother-to-child transmission and detection and treatment of children of infected mothers as a contribution to eliminate Chagas disease in Europe
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article ***DNDi AUTHOR***: Effectiveness of Nifurtimox Eflornithine Combination Therapy (NECT) in T. b. gambiense second stage sleeping sickness patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Report from a field study
Non-communicable diseases
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology • Correspondence ***MSF AUTHOR***: Diabetes and the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
BMJ Global Health • Article : Social capital in the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases among migrants and refugees: a systematic review and meta-ethnography
PLOS Global Public Health • Article : Self-care knowledge, attitude and associated factors among outpatients with diabetes mellitus in Arsi Zone, Southeast Ethiopia
Outbreaks
BMJ • Opinion : Omicron: we must protect the health and wellbeing of the public health workforce
Conflict and Heath • Article : Measles in conflict-affected northern Syria: results from an ongoing outbreak surveillance program
Research and reporting
PLOS Global Public Health • Article : Examining health sector stakeholder perceptions on the efficiency of county health systems in Kenya
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article : The impact of COVID-19 on clinical research for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): A case study of bubonic plague
Sexual and reproductive health
The Lancet Infectious Diseases • Article : Global burden and trends of sexually transmitted infections from 1990 to 2019: an observational trend study
Conflict and Health • Article : Measuring sexual violence stigma in humanitarian contexts: assessment of scale psychometric properties and validity with female sexual violence survivors from Somalia and Syria
Tuberculosis
NEJM • Article : Multicomponent Strategy with Decentralized Molecular Testing for Tuberculosis
Pathogens • Review ***MSF AUTHOR***: Provision of Decentralized TB Care Services: A Detect–Treat–Prevent Strategy for Children and Adolescents Affected by TB
Vaccines
The Lancet Global Health • Article : Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on routine immunisation services: evidence of disruption and recovery from 170 countries and territories
The Lancet Infectious Diseases • Article : Safety and immunogenicity of the Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine in healthy volunteers in Nepal: an observer-blind, active-controlled, randomised, non-inferiority, phase 3 trial
The Lancet Global Health • Article : Intradermal administration of fractional doses of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine in a campaign: a pragmatic, open-label, non-inferiority trial in The Gambia