ArticleTropical medicine & international health : TM & IH2021
Model of care, Noma Children's Hospital, northwest Nigeria.
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- Prevalence and associated risk factors for noma in Nigerian children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC oral health · 2024Pooled it
- Antimicrobial resistance in Noma control: a costly neglect within existing neglect.Tropical medicine and health · 2026Review
- Prevalence of significant depressive symptoms and associated factors among facially disfigured pediatric Noma patients in Nigeria: A single-centre cross-sectional study.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Healthcare workers' knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices of noma in Northwest Nigeria: a cross-sectional study.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Estimated incidence and clinical presentation of Noma in Northern Nigeria (1999-2024).PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers towards noma in Zambezia, Mozambique.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Implementation and Evaluation of a Training Program for Traditional Healers to Improve Knowledge of Noma (Cancrum Oris) in Burkina Faso.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Noma: a PubMed-based informetric analysis of a neglected tropical orofacial disease in Nigeria.Sudanese journal of paediatrics · 2023Article
- The key players of dysbiosis in Noma disease; A systematic review of etiological studies.Frontiers in oral health · 2023Review
- A Web of Science-Based Bibliometric Analysis of Global Noma Publications.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
- Noma (cancrum oris): A scoping literature review of a neglected disease (1843 to 2021).PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
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Abstract
The Nigerian Ministry of Health has been offering care for noma patients for many years at the Noma Children's Hospital (NCH) in Sokoto, northwest Nigeria, and Médecins Sans Frontières has supported these initiatives since 2014. The comprehensive model of care consists of four main components: acute care, care for noma sequelae, integrated hospital-based services and community-based services. The model of care is based on the limited evidence available for prevention and treatment of noma and follows WHO's protocols for acute patients and best practice guidelines for the surgical treatment of noma survivors. The model is updated continually as new evidence becomes available, including evidence generated through the operational research studies performed at NCH. By describing the model of care, we wish to share the lessons learned with other actors working in the noma and neglected tropical disease sphere in the hope of guiding programme development.
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