Newborn baby girl in the Ivory coast.

MSF PAEDIATRIC DAYS

The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Paediatric Days is an event for field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

MSF PAEDIATRIC DAYS

The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Paediatric Days is an event for field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

Photo: © MSF / Peter Caton

Call for abstracts!

All interested individuals and groups working in paediatric care are invited to submit an abstract for the 6th edition of the MSF Paediatric Days, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya and online, on 3-4 May 2024.

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Thank you for participating in the 5th edition of MSF Paediatric Days

The participating abstracts, posters and slide presentations are published in a collection on MSF Science Portal

MSF Science Portal

In February we began treating patients with dengue fever symptoms in the paediatric dengue unit at the HNMCR. Between February and April the number of cases kept growing, which is why MSF decided to increase its support for the HNMCR by implementing a filter for febrile patients in the paediatric emergency room. In Choloma, we also started activities in four primary health centres from the Minister of Health, where we hired one doctor and nurse for each centre, to take care of patients that didn’t require

Photo: © MSF/Arlette Blanco, Honduras

MSF Paediatric Days 2022 are now available on-demand

Find more info on the 5th edition of MSF Paediatric Days held on 29th November - 1st December 2022 and the full videos of the conference below.

MSF Paediatric Days 5th edition

A mother is holding a newborn and midwife at the maternity clinic is doing a consultation for the newborn.

Photo: © MSF / Seydou Camara, 2017

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Treating children with chronic diseases in Hawija, Iraq

2019-08-26 | Hawija district, in northern Iraq, has been profoundly affected by years of conflict and insecurity, and most recently the long siege and subsequent military offensive of 2017. Dr Britta Koelking, MSF’s medical activity manager in Hawija, describes her team’s work with children with non-communicable diseases.

Treating children with chronic diseases in Pulka, Nigeria

2019-08-26 | Pulka, a town in the Nigerian state of Borno, hosts more than 40,000 internal displaced people who have fled the long-running conflict in the area. Dr Kathrin Kramer, MSF’s medical activity manager in Pulka, describes her team’s work with children with non-communicable diseases.

Pediatric hackathon - addressing pediatric field challenges

2019-08-26 | The Sweden Innovation Unit (SIU) initiated the Pediatric Innovation Hackathon in April 2019 in an effort to capitalize on the external and internal knowledge base available in Stockholm for the annual MSF Pediatric Days which were held with a global MSF pediatric cohort the day after the hackathon.

Pediatrics in a humanitarian context: the work is just beginning

2019-08-26 | In December 2017, Medecins Sans Frontières invited the pediatric community for a 2-day conference to investigate ways of providing better care in humanitarian contexts for the most vulnerable patients: children.

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