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Ebola et la faillite de la santé publique en Afrique

December 16, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Countries, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Publié par Fanny Chabrol, dans la Revue internationale et stratégique, 2014/4 (n° 96). Résumé L’épidémie à virus Ebola qui dévaste l’Afrique de l’Ouest révèle l’impuissance des systèmes de santé en Afrique subsaharienne. Par son ampleur et ses facteurs déclencheurs, cette catastrophe était largement prévisible et signe l’échec des politiques internationales …

Urgent : Poste à pourvoir

December 15, 2014 | Filed under: French, Guinea, Society & Culture

Coordonnateur terrain, postdoc, recherche anthropologique sur l’épidémie d’Ebola dans le cadre de l’essai clinique JIKI mené par l’INSERM. Le projet JIKI est un essai thérapeutique portant sur un antiviral (le Favipiravir) pour les patients souffrant de la maladie du virus d’Ébola. Ce projet comporte un volet socio-anthropologique qui vise à …

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Appel à contributions pour un numéro spécial « Autour du virus Ebola »

December 10, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Epidemiology & Public Health, Europe, France, French, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture, Spain, USA

La revue Anthropologie et Santé lance un appel à contribution en vue d’un numéro spécial “Autour du virus Ebola”, coordonné par Anne Marie Moulin. Texte de l’appel Le virus de la fièvre hémorragique Ebola a concerné d’abord l’Afrique de l’Ouest et l’Afrique centrale, où des anthropologues escortent d’ores et déjà …

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Experimental therapies: growing interest in the use of whole blood or plasma from recovered Ebola patients (convalescent therapies)

November 18, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, RDC, Sierra Leone

Published on who.int, 26 September 2014 The current evidence base: limited data – from 1976 up to now Convalescent therapy was first used for a young woman infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) in 1976 – the year the virus first emerged. The woman was …

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Ebola vaccines, therapies, and diagnostics – WHO update

November 18, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Europe, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Convalescent blood and plasma therapies Experimental therapies: growing interest in the use of whole blood or plasma from recovered Ebola patients (convalescent therapies) 26 September 2014 WHO interim guidelines on use of convalescent whole blood and convalescent plasma 10 September 2014 Potential vaccines, medicines and other health technologies WHO Meeting …

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What Factors Might Have Led to the Emergence of Ebola in West Africa?

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

By PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, November 11, 2014   Abstract An Ebola outbreak of unprecedented scope emerged in West Africa in December 2013 and presently continues unabated in the countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Ebola is not new to Africa and outbreaks have been confirmed as far back …

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Tracking Ebola with CrisisNET and the Ushahidi Platform

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Countries, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Europe, France, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, USA, Visual

The Ebola epidemic has finally captured international attention. Coverage of Ebola was minimal when the disease was confined to West Africa, but a small number of recent cases in the US and Europe have sparked frantic, hysterical reporting from western media outlets and subsequent public panic. In light of this, …

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Ebola : les anthropologues en renfort

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, French, Guinea, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Publié sur CNRS Le Journal, le 3 octobre 2014, par Sylvain Guilbaud On redoute plusieurs centaines de milliers de nouveaux cas d’Ebola en Afrique de l’Ouest d’ici à la fin de l’année. Sur place, les difficultés de communication compliquent la riposte contre le virus. Rencontre avec Alain Epelboin, spécialiste d’anthropologie …

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Ebola, et ensuite ?

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, French, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Publié sur CNRS, Le Journal, le 13 novembre 2014, par Yannick Jaffré   Ebola n’est pas la seule maladie infectieuse à toucher l’Afrique. La persistance d’autres épidémies témoigne d’une situation sanitaire critique. L’anthropologue Yannick Jaffré revient sur les faiblesses structurelles qui minent le continent. (…) Des services de santé défaillants …

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Ebola, epidemics, and ethics – what we have learned

November 12, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

When considering the allocation of scarce resources, the most pressing question is: who should be treated? Abstract The current Ebola epidemic has presented challenges both medical and ethical. Although we have known epidemics of untreatable diseases in the past, this particular one may be unique in the intensity and rapidity …

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Statement by MSF aid worker Dr. Craig Spencer

November 12, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Published on MSF’s website, November 11, 2014 Hello, my name is Craig Spencer. I am a physician and aid worker for Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF. I’m proud to be among the ranks of more than 3,300 Doctors Without Borders responding to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. …

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“Restarting essential healthcare services is also a critical component of an Ebola response.”

November 12, 2014 | Filed under: Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Ebola: Hard-won gains in Liberia must not be undermined. International response must adapt to changing epidemic pattern. Published on MSF’s website, November 10, 2014 Monrovia – While the number of new Ebola cases reported in Liberia has declined in recent weeks, the outbreak is far from over and new hotspots continue …

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Ebola Outbreaks Timeline

October 31, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Europe, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, USA

The healthmap.org website is keeping up to date a timeline about the spread of the virus from March 14. October 31, 2014 Spain 1 case Guinea 1906 cases – 997 deaths Sierra Leone 5235 cases – 1500 deaths Senegal 1 case Mali 1 case – 1 death Liberia 6535 cases …

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Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster

October 31, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

By Guillaume Lachenal, in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnotes, October 31, 2014. A French version of this piece was originally published in Libération on 18 September 2014. “It is useless to laboriously interpret disaster movies in terms of their relation to an ‘objective’ social crisis or even to an ‘objective’ phantasm of …

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Point épidémiologique en Afrique de l’Ouest 27/10/2014 – INVS

October 29, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone

Points saillants Au total, 10 115 cas (suspects, probables et confirmés) et 4 913 décès (létalité 48,6%) ont été rapportés par l’OMS dans 4 pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Guinée, Libéria, Sierra-Léone et Mali).   Le premier cas à virus Ebola a été rapporté au Mali par les autorités sanitaires le …

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mHealth takes on Ebola in Nigeria

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

In what’s being hailed as a “spectacular success story,” the World Health Organization has declared Nigeria free of the Ebola virus transmission, with public health agencies and government officials citing a mobile health initiative as largely responsible for the triumph. Shortly after the WHO declared Africa’s most populous country Ebola-free …

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A networked approach to improving the resilience of communities confronted by the threat of Ebola

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone

The current Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic shows no sign of abating, and, with little effective infection control or prevention in place, the transmission is escalating on an unprecedented scale. In the absence of effective infection prevention and control at community level, the current epidemic curve indicates that cases are …

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Living with Ebola in West Africa

October 24, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture, Visual

An impressive series of pictures in West Africa, by Boston Big Picture, published on October 8 2014. Full Article: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2014/10/08/living-with-ebola-west-africa/vTCGB1bQTSbQitjUkSsTWI/story.html

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Ebola Outbreak in West Africa – Case Count – CDC

October 24, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone

Case counts updated in conjunction with the World Health Organization updates and are based on information reported by the Ministries of Health As of October 19, 2014 (Updated October 22, 2014) Countries with Widespread Transmission Country Total Cases Laboratory-Confirmed Cases Total Deaths Guinea 1540 1289 904 Liberia 4665 965 2705 …

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Somatosphere’s Web Roundup: Ebola Update

October 24, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, France, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture, Spain, Working papers

By Sara M Bergstresser This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes   A great deal has happened since the first Web Roundup on Ebola. The epidemic has spread both in West Africa and globally, and material about Ebola has spread throughout the web. According to the CDC, as …

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MSF : Dossier Urgence Ebola

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Ebola – La coalition mondiale de l’inaction by msf Avec près de 9000 cas et 4492 morts (source : OMS, au 16 octobre 2014), l’épidémie d’Ebola en cours en Afrique de l’Ouest est la plus importante jamais enregistrée depuis l’identification de la maladie, en 1976. Dès les premières semaines qui …

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Ebola vaccine trials raise ethical issues

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

The Ebola virus keeps spreading in West Africa and some researchers say that a vaccine is necessary to halt the epidemic. The two most advanced candidates have recently entered safety trials, and if they do not cause harm and trigger the immune response scientists hope to see, the World Health …

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Le nouveau « Monsieur Ebola » fait le point sur la recherche en France

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Epidemiology & Public Health, France, French, Guinea, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Le 21/20/2014, par Damien Coulomb, sur http://www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/ Le Pr Jean-François Delfraissy, directeur de l’Institut de microbiologie et maladies infectieuses (IMMI), vient d’être nommé par le Premier ministre Manuel Valls « coordinateur de l’ensemble des opérations internationales et nationales de réponse » à la crise Ebola. En compagnie d’Yves Lévy, président d’Aviesan et PDG de l’INSERM, il fait …

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Point épidémiologique en Afrique de l’Ouest au 20 octobre 2014 – INVS

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Senegal, Sierra Leone

Points saillants Au total, 9 212 cas (suspects, probables et confirmés) et 4 554 décès (létalité 49,4 %) ont été rapportés par l’OMS dans 5 pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Guinée, Sierra-Léone, Libéria, Nigéria et Sénégal). Depuis la dernière parution du Point Epidémiologique, la Sierra Léone rapporte 460 nouveaux cas, le …

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Les chercheurs français mobilisés sur tous les fronts contre Ebola

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Le Monde | 22.10.2014 à 12h58 • Mis à jour le 22.10.2014 à 15h45 | Par Paul Benkimoun Les organismes publics de recherche sont mobilisés pour répondre à l’épidémie de fièvre Ebola qui sévit en Afrique de l’Ouest, et ils le font savoir. L’Alliance nationale pour les sciences de la vie (Aviesan) qui les regroupe a présenté, mardi 21 octobre, les actions dans …

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RSS Pubmed – Ebola

  • Developing digital learning to help reduce laboratory inequalities: a viral haemorrhagic fever case study
  • Unifying human infectious disease models and real-time awareness of population- and subpopulation-level intervention effectiveness
  • The influence of women's groups mobilisation on health emergency response: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak in Liberia
  • 3D Tissue Culture Model for Virology Studies
  • Nanoscale Mechanical and Morphological Characterization of Ebolavirus-like Particles: Implications for Therapeutic Development

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RSS Ebola Communication Network

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  • Rebuilding Trust in Health Care through Community Dialogues
  • The Sexual Transmission of Ebola: Scicomm as a matter of life and death – Part 2 of 2
  • Where Does Ebola Come From? Communicating Science as a Matter of Life and Death – Part 1 of 2
  • After Reaching 42 Days with No Ebola Cases, One Thing Rings True for Sierra Leoneans: “We are all Survivors”

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