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Mpox in DRC: alarming human-to-human spread

After the global mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) pandemic in 2022, a new outbreak has been raging for several months in the Sud-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is rapidly spreading to neighbouring regions and countries. An international scientific team is seeking to...
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HIV treatments in Africa: the importance of extended clinical trials in the field

The NAMSAL clinical trial, launched in 2016, continues to deliver pertinent results for the care provided to HIV patients in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This program has confirmed Dolutegravir’s position as the treatment of choice, while also observing undesirable side effects in some...

Hanoi suffocated by fine particles resulting from human activity

Most of the intense fine particle pollution in Hanoi can be linked to human activity, according to a recent study by IRD and its Vietnamese partners. Emissions of anthropogenic origin are both the most abundant and the most dangerous to our health. But they are also the only emissions on which we...

Covid-19: The Social Sciences Join the Battle

When epidemics first emerge, all eyes tend to turn to the epidemiologists, virologists and clinical trials. The humanities and social sciences also have an important role to play, both in studying the phenomenon and providing a response to it. Two of the IRD’s health anthropologists talk about their...

Cesarean deliveries in India: too many and yet too few

Had India fallen prey to the epidemic of cesarean currently affecting many countries in the world? Thanks to the data issued from the latest National Family and Health Survey, Christophe Z. Guilmoto and Alexandre Dumont, both IRD researchers, have been able to chart some of the main trends and...