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Setting research priorities for sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings: a global, stakeholder-informed agenda

Nam SL, Abril A, McKay G, Casey SE, Bossard C,  et al.
2025-12-07 • Conflict and Health
2025-12-07 • Conflict and Health

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) remain critically underfunded and underresearched in humanitarian settings. Existing global research...

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Community perceptions about factors influencing access to care after sexual violence in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: a qualitative study

Reinholdz H, Palmieri J, Frielingsdorf H, Katungu Kalere E, Nteziryayo Heritier G,  et al.
2025-04-05 • Conflict and Health
2025-04-05 • Conflict and Health

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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...

Self-managed abortion as a humanitarian revolution: Accounts of a telehealth pilot in the Middle East

Lasserre L, Staderini N, Hasan M, Rossi V
2025-02-11 • Conflict and Health
2025-02-11 • Conflict and Health

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Access to safe abortion care (SAC) should be improved in fragile and humanitarian settings, and the implementation of interventions in that regard ar...

The status of care for youth with type 1 diabetes within and coming from humanitarian crises settings: a narrative review

James S, Jabakhanji SB, Mehta R, McCaffrey J, Mairghani M,  et al.
2025-01-14 • Conflict and Health
2025-01-14 • Conflict and Health

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Humanitarian crises bring unique, and potentially growing challenges to people with type 1 diabetes (T1D). We aimed to determine, in youth with T1D (...

Key mental health differences in conflict-related sexual violence and how sex, severity, and early intervention impact on improvement: a retrospective observational study

Martínez Torre S, Sordo L, Sagrado Benito MJ, Llosa AE, Carrascal Maldonado A,  et al.
2024-10-16 • Conflict and Health
2024-10-16 • Conflict and Health

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Con...

The integration of ortho-plastic limb salvage teams in the humanitarian response to violence-related open tibial fractures: evaluating outcomes in the Gaza Strip

Farhat T, Moussally K, Nahouli H, Hamad SA, Qaraya KA,  et al.
2024-04-24 • Conflict and Health
2024-04-24 • Conflict and Health

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Limb salvage by ortho-plastic teams is the standard protocol for treating open tibial fractures...

Not only vaccine hesitancy, but also vaccination campaign hesitancy drives measles epidemics in conflict-torn eastern DR Congo

Van Brusselen D, Dubois AH, Bindu LK, Moluh Z, Nzomukunda Y,  et al.
2024-02-01 • Conflict and Health
2024-02-01 • Conflict and Health
The COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine hesitancy are not the only causes of the increase in measles cases in low- and middle-income countries. Measles epidemics, like the recent one in easter...

Evaluation of a multi-component early warning system for pastoralist populations in Doolo zone, Ethiopia: mixed-methods study

Baertlein L, Dubad BA, Sahelie B, Damulak IC, Osman M,  et al.
2024-01-30 • Conflict and Health
2024-01-30 • Conflict and Health
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This study evaluated an early warning, alert and response system for a crisis-affected population in Doolo zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia, in 2019–2021, with a history of e...

Strengthening community-based surveillance: lessons learned from the 2018–2020 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak

OKeeffe J, Takahashi E, Otshudiema JO, Malembi E, Ndaliko C,  et al.
2023-08-30 • Conflict and Health
2023-08-30 • Conflict and Health
INTRODUCTION
There has been little documentation of the large networks of community health workers that contributed to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) surveillance during the 2018–2020 Dem...

How is the implementation of empirical research results documented in conflict-affected settings? Findings from a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature

Leresche E, Hossain MS, De Rubeis ML, Hermans V, Burtscher D,  et al.
2023-08-22 • Conflict and Health
2023-08-22 • Conflict and Health
Implementation science scholars argue that knowing ‘what works’ in public health is insufficient to change practices, without understanding ‘how’, ‘where’ and ‘why’ something works. In t...

Provider-initiated HIV testing uptake and socio-economic status among women in a conflict zone in the Central African Republic: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study

Utheim MN, Isaakidis P, Van den Bergh R, Géraud BBG, Mabvouna RB,  et al.
2023-03-27 • Conflict and Health
2023-03-27 • Conflict and Health
INTRODUCTION
In the Central African Republic (CAR), HIV/AIDS is the main cause of death in women aged 15–49 years. Increased testing coverage is essential in prevention of HIV/AIDS, ...

Lessons identified from initiating a thalassaemia programme in a conflict setting: a case study from northeast Syria

MacVinish S, van Leeuwen C, Hoetjes M, Aoki Y, Foley D,  et al.
2023-02-07 • Conflict and Health
2023-02-07 • Conflict and Health
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Thalassaemia affects many families in Northeast Syria, an area devastated by over a decade of conflict which has significantly impacted their health system. People with th...

Providing HIV care in the aftermath of Kenya's post-election violence Medecins Sans Frontieres' lessons learned January - March 2008

Reid AJ, van Engelgem I, Telfer B, Manzi M
2008-12-01 • Conflict and Health
2008-12-01 • Conflict and Health
ABSTRACT: Kenya's post-election violence in early 2008 created considerable problems for health services, and in particular, those providing HIV care. It was feared that the disruptions ...

Provision of antiretroviral treatment in conflict settings: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

O'Brien DP, Venis S, Greig J, Shanks L, Ellman T,  et al.
2010-06-17 • Conflict and Health
2010-06-17 • Conflict and Health
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Many countries ravaged by conflict have substantial morbidity and mortality attributed to HIV/AIDS yet HIV treatment is uncommonly available. Universal access to HIV car...

Migrant children in transit: health profile and social needs of unaccompanied and accompanied children visiting the MSF clinic in Belgrade, Serbia

Topalovic T, Episkopou M, Schillberg EBL, Brcanski J, Jocic M
2021-04-29 • Conflict and Health
2021-04-29 • Conflict and Health
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Thousands of children migrate to Europe each year in search of safety and the promise of a better life. Many of them transited through Serbia in 2018. Children journey alo...

High levels of mortality, exposure to violence and psychological distress experienced by the internally displaced population of Ein Issa camp prior to and during their displacement in Northeast Syria, November 2017

Vernier L, Cramond V, Hoetjes M, Lenglet AD, Hoare T
2019-07-11 • Conflict and Health
2019-07-11 • Conflict and Health
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War in Syria has lasted for more than eight years, causing population displacement, collapse of medical and public health services, extensive violence and countless deat...

Retrospective mortality among refugees from the Central African Republic arriving in Chad, 2014

Coldiron ME, Roederer T, Llosa AE, Bouhenia M, Madi S,  et al.
2017-05-15 • Conflict and Health
2017-05-15 • Conflict and Health
The Central African Republic has known long periods of instability. In 2014, following the fall of an interim government installed by the Séléka coalition, a series of violent reprisals ...

The new WHO decision-making framework on vaccine use in acute humanitarian emergencies: MSF experience in Minkaman, South Sudan

Rull M, Masson S, Peyraud N, Simonelli M, Ventura A,  et al.
2018-03-26 • Conflict and Health
2018-03-26 • Conflict and Health
The main causes of death during population movements can be prevented by addressing the population's basic needs. In 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a framework for deci...

Malaria vector control tools in emergency settings: What do experts think? Results from a DELPHI survey

Boete C, Burza S, Lasry E, Moriana S, Robertson W
2021-12-20 • Conflict and Health
2021-12-20 • Conflict and Health
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The use and implementation of novel tools for malaria control such as long lasting impregnated bednets (LLINs) and Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) over the last decade has ...

Provision of emergency obstetric care at secondary level in a conflict setting in a rural area of Afghanistan - is the hospital fulfilling its role?

Lagrou D, Zachariah R, Bissel K, Van Overloop C, Nasim M,  et al.
2018-01-22 • Conflict and Health
2018-01-22 • Conflict and Health
Provision of Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC) reduces maternal mortality and should include three components: Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (BEmONC) offered at...