Research

The PARTNER study, involving more than 750 discordant heterosexual and homosexual couples,  are showing that an effective treatment by antiretroviral therapy (ART) prevents the transmission of HIV to the seronegative partner.

This study brings evidence showing  that treatment as prevention works. learn more about the studyResults were  reported at the 21st Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2014) in Boston, in March 2014 learn more about Treatment as Prevention

Margot Phaneuf, docteur en Soins infirmiers, nous rappelle l’importance d’écrire à propos de notre travail. Cela afin de favoriser la construction du savoir et l’évolution de notre profession!

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Access to quality health care for all is a universal goal for health.

The way migrant people access quality healthcare services is yet poor.

This metasynthesis pulled together results about barriers in access to health care  that were described in quality studies retrieved in the international literature.

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When providing clinical medical and nursing care to patients, there  is an increasing effort to provide quality care that is evidence-based. Here is an excellent and rapid way to learn about Evidence-based-practice and see a practical example of how to do it!

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Some researchers compared Pub Med and Google Scholar. For bio- medical systematic reviews and non expert researchers, Pub Med came out better off. Google scholar seems to be an excellent source of literature but it should not be used alone.  see abstract here

MBC Medicine published a study about the influence of adverse childhood experiences ACE (parental separation, domestic violence, physical or verbal abuse, sexual abuse, mental illness, alcohol or drug abuse, and incarceration) on health-harming behaviors H-HB (such as unintended teenage pregnancy, early sexual initiation, smoking, blinge drinking, drugs use, violence, poor diet, low physical activity and incarceration) among adults individuals living en England. One out of two adults across all socio-economic classes, have experienced at least one ACE. These individuals are more likely to develop H-HB and thus to suffer from non-communicable diseases.

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Dr. Terrie Taylor is a medical professor at Michigan State University who spent years  studying malaria in Africa. In 2008 she managed to get a Magnetic resonance imaging machines (MRI’s) donated to her project in order to research the reactions going on in the brain of children suffering from severe malaria. access link hereSevere malaria is the kills 600,000 children under five every year worldwide, mostly in sub-saharan Africa. Taylor and her colleagues used the MRI on dozens of sick patients, and they noticed an unmistakable pattern: Children whose brains swelled dramatically and irreversibly died. Children whose brains did not swell – or swelled, but then returned to a normal size – lived. This discovery is important because it might dramatically increase the chances for children to survive a severe malaria, by administrating drugs to reduce brain swelling. These drugs (corticosteroid) are in the WHO List of Essential Medicines for Children and are likely to be easily accessible in most health centers in Africa.

A. D. Harries, R. Zachariah, A. Ramsay, et al, ( from The Union, MSF and WHO) , with the support of Public Health Action are working  on gathering data about the impact of research on public health. Does research make a difference to public health? Time for scientific journals to cross the Rubicon

Field Research is MSF research’s website publishing operational research that was carried out in MSF’s projects around the world. access Field research.

MSF and The Union (International Union against Tuberculosis and pulmonary diseases) started a collaboration aiming at promote operational research, defined as " The science of doing better"  for low income countries.

The goal is to use data that are collected routinely in health care facilities and turn them into results that will improve health care delivery, diagnosis and patient treatment.

In the last months I have been exploring different ways in which I could get involved in research work.

In his article Zachariah, head of the operational research at MSF, describes the research I am interested in: operational research article Zachariah et al, 2012