Examples of tropical disease control in the humanitarian medical programmes of MSF and Merlin.
Affiliation
Médecins Sans Frontières-UK, 67-74 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8QX, UK. manica.balasegaram@london.msf.orgIssue Date
2006-04
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Humanitarian medical programmes in the tropics have the opportunity to provide beacons of good practice. The use of modern drugs and diagnostics, a lack of bureaucracy, adequate budgets, motivated staff and well-functioning supply lines all contribute to the success of this approach. At a joint meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Médecins Sans Frontières and Merlin, new data were presented on the outcomes of recent humanitarian programmes to control malaria (Ethiopia), human African trypanosomiasis (south Sudan), Lassa fever (Sierra Leone) and tuberculosis (Tomsk, former USSR).Publisher
ElsevierPubMed ID
16289631Additional Links
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00359203Language
enISSN
0035-9203ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.08.010