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Philipp Du Cros

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About Philipp Du Cros

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Physician

Organization

  • Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF
    Website: http://www.msf.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: Switzerland About: Les Médecins Sans Frontières apportent leur secours aux populations en détresse, aux victimes de catastrophes d'origine naturelle ou humaine, de situation de belligérance, sans aucune discrimination de race, religion, philosophique ou politique. Oeuvrant dans la neutralité et en toute impartialité, les Médecins Sans Frontières revendiquent, au nom de l'éthique médicale universelle et du droit à l'assistance humanitaire, la liberté pleine et entière de l'exercice de leur fonction. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries. In countries where health structures are insufficient or even non-existant, MSF collaborates with authorities such as the Ministry of Health to provide assistance. MSF works in rehabilitation of hospitals and dispensaries, vaccination programmes and water and sanitation projects. MSF also works in remote health care centres, slum areas and provides training of local personnel. All this is done with the objective of rebuilding health structures to acceptable levels.

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  • United Kingdom

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    Philipp Du Cros replied to "Psychosocial support for MDR-TB patients" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

    Dear Colleagues, We are currently looking at the possibility of starting facilitated group discussions in one of our MDR TB program. I am wondering if you would be able to share some information onthe following: 1. How do you deal with infection control in group sessions (as patients will have different resistance patterns and potentially there may be infectious and non (less) infectious patients in hospital)? 2. Do you have group discussions also with patient ...

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    Philipp Du Cros started a discussion "How much better is respirator fit testing compared with fit checking?" in the TB Infection Control community.

    Dear Colleagues, In the WHO Guidelines for the Prevention of tuberculosis in health care facilities in resource limited settings it mentions that "Should time and resources permit (financial and staff), a respirator (fit) testing program should be incorporated into the IC plan." In trying to decide the relative benefit of respirator fit testing over simple fit checking for a program that is already attending to the administrative and environmental controls, I was wondering whether there ...

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    Philipp Du Cros started a discussion "People with Drug ResistantTB Blogging" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

    The importance of listening to people with TB and drug resistant TB cannot be underestimated if we truly desire to successfully cure our patients and develop successful, patient centred TB and HIV treatment programmes. In order to allow patients a direct voice in TB advocacy we have set up a website for people with Drug Resistant TB to blog about their experiences of TB, the treatment and the treatent services and support provided. There are ...

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    Philipp Du Cros started a discussion "Disposal of sputum for home infection control in MDR TB treatment" in the TB Infection Control community.

    Hello, I am wondering what members who are treating MDR TB advise patients for the home infection control management of sputum while patients are still infectious. Do you treat this as medical waste or are patients simply advised to use tissues and dispose in plastic bags that would then be disposed in normal garbage collection or burnt? Thanks Philipp

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November 18, 2008

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