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Medical Research

Medical data and research from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) field operations are regularly published in the peer-reviewed literature.

Below is a selection of recently published MSF medical research articles. For copies or to search all MSF research publications, please visit the MSF Field Research website, or contact Dr. Patricia Kahn, Medical Editor, patricia.kahn[at]newyork.msf.org.

MSF research articles on South Africa

April 19, 2011

Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study

Catharina C Boehme, Mark P Nicol, Pamela Nabeta, Joy S Michael, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Rasim Tahirli, Ma Tarcela Gler, Robert Blakemore, William Worodria, Christen Gray, Laurence Huang, Tatiana Caceres, Rafail Mehdiyev, Lawrence Raymond, Andrew Whitelaw, Kalaiselvan Sagadevan, Heather Alexander, Heidi Albert, Frank Cobelens, Helen Cox, David Alland, Mark D Perkins
Lancet 2011;377:1495-505

Diagnostics, South Africa, Tuberculosis

February 17, 2011

Correcting for mortality among patients lost to follow up on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa: a cohort analysis

Gilles Van Cutsem, Nathan Ford, Katherine Hildebrand, Eric Goemaere, Shaheed Mathee, Musaed Abrahams, David Coetzee, Andrew Boulle
PLoS ONE 2011;6(2):e14684.

HIV/AIDS, South Africa

July 8, 2010

AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma is linked to advanced disease and high mortality in a primary care HIV programme in South Africa

Kathryn M Chu, Gcina Mahlangeni, Sarah Swannet, Nathan P Ford, Andrew Boulle, Gilles Van Cutsem
Journal of the International AIDS Society 2010;13:23. (doi: 10.1186/1758-2652-13-23)

HIV/AIDS, South Africa

January 6, 2010

Seven-year experience of a primary care antiretroviral treatment programme in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Andrew Boulle, Gilles Van Cutsem, Katherine Hilderbrand, Carol Cragg, Musaed Abrahams, Shaheed Mathee, Nathan Ford, Louise Knight, Meg Osler, Jonny Myers, Eric Goemaere, David Coetzee, Gary Maartens
AIDS 2010;24(4):563-72.
AIDS

HIV/AIDS, South Africa

September 1, 2009

Monitoring the South African National Antiretroviral Treatment Programme, 2003-2007: the IeDEA Southern Africa collaboration

Morna Cornell, Karl Technau, Lara Fairall, Robin Wood, Harry Moultrie, Gilles Van Cutsem, Janet Giddy, Lerato Mohapi, Brian Eley, Patrick MacPhail, Hans Prozesky, Helena Rabie, Mary-Ann Davies, Nicola Maxwell, Andrew Boulle, International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS Southern Africa Collaboration
South African Medical Journal 2009;99(9):653-60

HIV/AIDS, South Africa

December 19, 2007

Effect of rifampicin-based antitubercular therapy on nevirapine plasma concentrations in South African adults with HIV-associated tuberculosis

Karen Cohen, Gilles van Cutsem, Andrew Boulle, Helen McIlleron, Eric Goemaere, Peter J. Smith, Gary Maartens
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2008;61:389-393. (doi: 10.1093/jac/dkm484)

HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Tuberculosis

December 1, 2007

Implementing antiretroviral therapy in rural communities: The Lusikisiki model of decentralized HIV/AIDS care

Martha Bedelu, Nathan Ford, Katherine Hilderbrand, Hermann Reuter
Journal of Infectious Diseases 2007;196:S464-S468. (doi: 10.1086/521114)

HIV/AIDS, South Africa

July 1, 2007

Evaluation of a diagnostic algorithm for smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-infected adults

P Saranchuk, A Boulle, K Hilderbrand, D Coetzee, M Bedelu, G van Cutsem, G Meintjes
South African Medical Journal 2007;97:517-523.

HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Tuberculosis

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