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Interview with Natalie Roberts : COVID-19 Alert and SMS Afia Yetu projects

Natalie Roberts is the director of studies at Crash and program manager at the MSF Foundation. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, she was involved in the implementation of two digital health applications.

Here she discusses the field of digital health and the challenge that COVID represented in the research on these issues. In this interview, we discover the needs behind the "Alerte-Niger" and "SMS Afia Yetu" projects, the stages of their development, but also the obstacles encountered by the MSF teams (the health context, relations with partners, preconceived ideas about the population).

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    Antibiogo : Routine implementation within the MSF Sica Laboratory in Bagui, CAR

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    Cervical cancer : when AI helps improve diagnosis

    Cervical cancer is the second deadliest cancer in low- and middle-income countries (1). In Malawi in East Africa, where MSF operates, over 4,000 Malawian women fall sick with cervical cancer every year. With 2,905 deaths due to cervical cancer in 2020, the country also had the second highest rate of mortality (2). How can we explain such a high mortality rate from this disease which, in high-income countries, is easily preventable and generally less deadly?  The reasons include limited access to prevention and screening, and diagnoses that are not always reliable.

     

    Clara Nordon, Director of the MSF Foundation, has just got back from a visit to Malawi with the MSF teams and tells us about the project led by the Foundation. Code name: AI4CC

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  • Utilisation d'Antibiogo au laboratoire MSF, hôpital CHK.Kinshasa. République Démocratique du Congo
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    Antibiogo is already implemented in routine in DRC and Jordan, and soon within other MSF’s Labs !

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    Immunogenicity and safety of fractional doses of 17D-213 yellow fever vaccine in HIV-infected people in Kenya (YEFE): a randomised, double-blind, non-inferiority substudy of a phase 4 trial

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    Immunogenicity and safety of fractional doses of 17D-213 yellow fever vaccine in children (YEFE): a randomised, double-blind, non-inferiority substudy of a phase 4 trial

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