We report a woman in her twenties from a displaced persons camp in the Democratic Republic of Cong...

Menstrual hygiene management remains a critical yet often neglected issue in humanitarian setting. Reusable menstrual underwear (MU) offers a potentially sustainable and discrete solu...

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...

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

BACKGROUND

Sexual violence is widespread in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including in the North Kivu province. Moreover, in this r...

Severely malnourished patients can present with bilateral pitting oedema, which is a common sign of Kwashiorkor. However, bilateral pitting oedema can also be an expression of other p...

Cholera is a bacterial water-borne diarrheal disease transmitted via the fecal-oral route that causes high morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. It is preventable with vaccination...

BACKGROUND

Conflict is known to impact maternal and neonatal health in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an area of longstanding insecurity. We co...

The low specificity of Ebola virus disease clinical signs increases the risk for nosocomial transmission to patients and healthcare workers during outbreaks. Reducing this risk requir...

BACKGROUND

In 2019–2020, preventative Oral Cholera Vaccine campaigns were conducted in 24/32 n...

INTRODUCTION

Both ...

BACKGROUND

Tradi...

BACKGROUND

Antimicrobial resistance is of great global public health concern. In order to address the paucity of antibiotic consumption data and antimicrobial resistance surveil...

BACKRGOUND

The rec...