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Not only vaccine hesitancy, but also vaccination campaign hesitancy drives measles epidemics in conflict-torn eastern DR Congo
The COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine hesitancy are not the only causes of the increase in measles cases in low- and …
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Gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict in Northern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Gender-based violence (GBV) particularly against women is unfortunately common during armed conflicts. No rigorous and comprehensive empirical work has …
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Factors associated with health-seeking patterns among internally displaced persons in complex humanitarian emergency, Northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Currently, over two million persons are internally displaced because of the complex humanitarian emergency in Nigeria's northeast region. Due …
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Adolescent mental health in post-conflict communities: results from a cross-sectional survey in Northern Uganda
PURPOSE: This study evaluated adolescents' mental health their knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about mental health conditions, and their access to …
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Child health services and armed conflict in Tigray, North Ethiopia: a community-based study
BACKGROUND: Access to basic health services, notably child health services, is severely hampered by the armed conflict in Tigray, North …
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Violence against health care workers in a crisis context: a mixed cross-sectional study in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
BACKGROUND: Health Care Workers (HCWs) in conflict zones face high levels of violence while also playing a crucial role in …
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Destruction, disruption and disaster: Sudan’s health system amidst armed conflict
The ongoing armed conflict in Sudan has resulted in a deepening humanitarian crisis with significant implications for the country's health …
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Alcohol and other drug use patterns and services in an integrated refugee settlement in Northern Zambia: a formative research study
BACKGROUND: Evidence on patterns of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and how to effectively deliver services to address AOD …
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Impact of a double catastrophe, war and COVID-19, on health service utilization of a tertiary care hospital in Tigray: an interrupted time-series study
BACKGROUND: In developing nations with fragile healthcare systems, the effect of war is likely to be much worse than it …
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A syndemic of inequitable gender norms and intersecting stigmas on condom self-efficacy and practices among displaced youth living in urban slums in Uganda: a community-based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Adverse socio-cultural factors compromise the implementation of HIV prevention strategies among displaced youth. While condoms are an affordable and …
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Strengthening community-based surveillance: lessons learned from the 2018–2020 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak
INTRODUCTION: There has been little documentation of the large networks of community health workers that contributed to Ebola Virus Disease …
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Assessment of the WHO non-communicable diseases kit for humanitarian emergencies in South Sudan: a retrospective, prospective, observational study
BACKGROUND: The WHO Non-Communicable Diseases Kit (NCDK) was developed to support care for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in humanitarian settings. Targeting …
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Burial workers’ perceptions of community resistance and support systems during an Ebola outbreak in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Community Health Workers (CHWs) provide vital services during disease outbreaks. Appropriate burials of those who died from an infectious …
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The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in humanitarian settings: epidemiology, health service utilization, and health care seeking behavior in Bangui and surrounding areas, Central African Republic
BACKGROUND: Despite increasing evidence on COVID-19, few studies have been conducted in humanitarian settings and none have investigated the direct …
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Perilous medicine in Tigray: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: The war in Tigray, North Ethiopia which started in November 2020, has destroyed decades of the region's healthcare success. …
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Armed conflict and household food insecurity: evidence from war-torn Tigray, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Exposure to armed conflicts result in strongly adverse and often irreversible short- and long-term effects which may transmit across …
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Organizational peer support to enable rehabilitating surgical services in Northern Ethiopia
The ongoing violent conflict in Northern Ethiopia has caused displacement, death, and destruction. Health services infrastructure became one of the …
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Cross-sectional survey in Central African Republic finds mortality 4-times higher than UN statistics: how can we not know the Central African Republic is in such an acute humanitarian crisis?
BACKGROUND: CAR is one of the poorest countries in the world. While UN statistics suggest that there is no health …
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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
INTRODUCTION: In the Central African Republic (CAR), HIV/AIDS is the main cause of death in women aged 15-49 years. Increased …
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Sustainability of health services in refugee hosting districts: a qualitative study of health services in three west Nile refugee hosting districts, Uganda
BACKGROUND: Humanitarian health assistance programmes have expanded from temporary approaches addressing short-term needs to providing long-term interventions in emergency settings. …