[HTML][HTML] The Lancet Commission on diagnostics: transforming access to diagnostics

…, C Boehme, W Cherniak, ANY Cheung, B Dahn… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
At the end of 2019, the first reports of a new respiratory virus appeared in China. The
subsequent COVID-19 pandemic has affected every person, in every country, in the world. One …

[HTML][HTML] What is a resilient health system? Lessons from Ebola

ME Kruk, M Myers, ST Varpilah, BT Dahn - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
The fragility of health systems has never been of greater interest—or importance—than at this
moment, in the aftermath of the worst Ebola virus disease epidemic to date. The loss of life, …

Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic

…, SO Blyden, F Bolay, MW Carroll, B Dahn, B Diallo… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The 2013–2016 West African epidemic caused by the Ebola virus was of unprecedented
magnitude, duration and impact. Here we reconstruct the dispersal, proliferation and decline of …

[HTML][HTML] Ebola virus disease cases among health care workers not working in Ebola treatment units—Liberia, June–August, 2014

…, C Reed, IJ Schafer, M Massaquoi, B Dahn… - MMWR Morb Mortal …, 2014 - cdc.gov
West Africa is experiencing the largest Ebola virus disease (Ebola) epidemic in recorded
history. Health care workers (HCWs) are at increased risk for Ebola. In Liberia, as of August 14, …

Maternity waiting homes and traditional midwives in rural Liberia

…, ML Munro, S Rominski, G Williams, BT Dahn… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective Maternity waiting homes (MWHs) can reduce maternal morbidity and mortality by
increasing access to skilled birth attendants (SBAs). The present analysis was conducted to …

Persistence of Ebola virus after the end of widespread transmission in Liberia: an outbreak report

…, E Higgs, A Gasasira, DE Williams, B Dahn… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2018 - thelancet.com
… On Nov 20, 2015, the presence of Ebola virus RNA was confirmed in blood samples from
the father (individual B) and the 8-year-old brother (individual C; table 1). Individual B did not …

Liberian surgical and anesthesia infrastructure: a survey of county hospitals

LM Knowlton, S Chackungal, B Dahn, D LeBrun… - World journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Background There is a significant burden of disease in low-income countries that can benefit
from surgical intervention. The goal of this survey was to evaluate the current ability of the …

COVID-19: Africa needs unprecedented attention to strengthen community health systems

L Nepomnyashchiy, B Dahn, R Saykpah, M Raghavan - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
As the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Liberia, in March, 2020, former President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 1 among others, 2 highlighted the need to adopt lessons learned from …

Reducing under-reporting of stigmatized health events using the List Experiment: results from a randomized, population-based study of abortion in Liberia

…, C Dehlendorf, L Bawo, B Dahn… - International Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… List B with abortion (‘take out belly’) added as a fourth item. The other half of the sample
received List B as … , there is a corresponding item on List B that would also likely be true for that …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated disease surveillance and response implementation in Liberia, findings from a data quality audit, 2017

…, E Hamblion, T Nyenswah, B Dahn… - The Pan African …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods multi-stage cluster sampling that included stage 1: simple random sample (SRS) of
five counties, stage 2: simple random sample of two districts and stage 3: simple random …