Causes of death in HIV-positive patients under treatment in developing countries: experience of the French Red Cross Outpatient Treatment Center at Pointe-Noire, Congo

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Lucaccioni ◽  
P. Loubaki ◽  
A. Mafoua ◽  
B. Simon ◽  
J.-F. Mattei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Outpatient Treatment ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Pointe Noire ◽  
French Red Cross

scholarly journals Evaluating the motivation of Red Cross Health volunteers in the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. e042579
Author(s):  
Leonardo W Heyerdahl ◽  
Muriel Vray ◽  
Vincent Leger ◽  
Lénaig Le Fouler ◽  
Julien Antouly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Volunteer Motivation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
French Red Cross

IntroductionVoluntary organisations provide essential support to vulnerable populations and front-line health responders to the COVID-19 pandemic. The French Red Cross (FRC) is prominent among organisations offering health and support services in the current crisis. Comprised primarily of lay volunteers and some trained health workers, FRC volunteers in the Paris (France) region have faced challenges in adapting to pandemic conditions, working with sick and vulnerable populations, managing limited resources and coping with high demand for their services. Existing studies of volunteers focus on individual, social and organisational determinants of motivation, but attend less to contextual ones. Public health incertitude about the COVID-19 pandemic is an important feature of this pandemic. Whether and how uncertainty interacts with volunteer understandings and experiences of their work and organisational relations to contribute to Red Cross worker motivation is the focus of this investigation.Methods and analysisThis mixed-methods study will investigate volunteer motivation using ethnographic methods and social network listening. Semi-structured interviews and observations will illuminate FRC volunteer work relations, experiences and concerns during the pandemic. A questionnaire targeting a sample of Paris region volunteers will allow quantification of motivation. These findings will iteratively shape and be influenced by a social media (Twitter) analysis of biomedical and public health uncertainties and debates around COVID-19. These tweets provide insight into a French lay public’s interpretations of these debates. We evaluate whether and how socio-political conditions and discourses concerning COVID-19 interact with volunteer experiences, working conditions and organisational relations to influence volunteer motivation. Data collection began on 15 June 2020 and will continue until 15 April 2021.Ethics and disseminationThe protocol has received ethical approval from the Institut Pasteur Institutional Review Board (no 2020-03). We will disseminate findings through peer-reviewed articles, conference presentations and recommendations to the FRC.

The International Committee in Algeria

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 362-365 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Surgical Instruments ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Powdered Milk ◽  
New Born ◽  
Concentrated Milk ◽  
French Red Cross

The ICRC actively developed its relief operation in Algeria in June. Acute medical and sanitary problems are facing its delegates, especially in Oran. As reported earlier the ICRC has sent a medical team of three to the Moslem city of Oran, where medicines, surgical instruments and equipment, and dietetic milk for new-born children, are most urgently needed. Following urgent requests by its delegates on the spot the ICRC immediately despatched by air two tons of dietetic powdered milk: Two further shipments were also sent by the French Red Cross, one of eight crates of sugared concentrated milk, the other of one and a half tons of standardised milk.

scholarly journals Pathological Methods Applied to the Investigation of Causes of Death in Developing Countries: Minimally Invasive Autopsy Approach

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. e0132057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Castillo ◽  
Esperança Ussene ◽  
Mamudo R. Ismail ◽  
Dercio Jordao ◽  
Lucilia Lovane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Minimally Invasive ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Minimally Invasive Autopsy

scholarly journals First Red Cross Meeting in the South-West Region of the Indian Ocean

1984 ◽  
Vol 24 (242) ◽  
pp. 302-303
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
West Region ◽  
West And Central Africa ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
French Red Cross ◽  
National Director ◽  
First Time

Leaders of the Red Cross Societies of Madagascar and Mauritius, of the French Red Cross in Réunion, of the Seychelles Red Cross Committee and of the Comoros Red Crescent Committee met for the first time, from 14 to 18 May 1984, at Saint-Denis de la Réunion. The French Red Cross was represented by Mr. M. Bocquet, Vice-President of the French National Red Cross, and Miss E. Bourel, National Director for the departmental branches; the League had delegated Mr. Cassaigneau, head of the “West and Central Africa” desk in Geneva, who was accompanied by Mr. E. Ekué, programme officer, and Mr. R. Carrillo, disaster preparedness programme officer; the ICRC had dispatched Mrs. J. Egger, head of the co-operation service, and Mr. L. Isler, of the ICRC regional delegation at Nairobi, also took part in the meeting.

Epidemiologic Investigation of a 2007 Outbreak of Serratia marcescens Bloodstream Infection in Texas Caused by Contamination of Syringes Prefilled With Heparin and Saline

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 593-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Su ◽  
David B. Blossom ◽  
Wendy Chung ◽  
Jessica Smartt Gullion ◽  
Neil Pascoe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Serratia Marcescens ◽  
Bloodstream Infection ◽  
Retrospective Cohort Study ◽  
Outpatient Treatment ◽  
Retrospective Cohort ◽  
Epidemiologic Study ◽  
Epidemiologic Studies ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Epidemiologic Investigation

This retrospective cohort study found that syringes prefilled with heparin flush solution caused an outbreak of Serratia marcescens bloodstream infection at an outpatient treatment center in Texas in 2007. The epidemiologic study supported this conclusion, despite the lack of microbiologic evidence of contamination from environmental and product testing. This report underscores the crucial contributions that epidemiologic studies can make to investigations of outbreaks that are possibly product related.

UPLC-QTOF/MS based metabolomics reveals metabolic alterations associated with severe sepsis

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (49) ◽  
pp. 43293-43298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qun Liang ◽  
Han Liu ◽  
Haitao Xing ◽  
Yan Jiang ◽  
Ai-Hua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Severe Sepsis ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Metabolic Alterations

Severe sepsis (SS) remains among the leading causes of death in both developed and developing countries.

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