Two new REACH papers published

The REACH Burkina Faso team have recently seen two research papers published, in PLOS Medicine and the New England Journal of Medicine, respectively.

You can read the results of their research below.


“Single-dose azithromycin for infant growth in Burkina Faso: Prespecified secondary anthropometric outcomes from a randomized controlled trial”

PLOS Medicine

Published: 23 January 2024

Ali Sié1,2*, Mamadou Ouattara1, Mamadou Bountogo1, Clarisse Dah1, Thierry Ouedraogo1, Valentin Boudo1, Elodie Lebas2, Huiyu Hu2, Benjamin F. Arnold2,3,4, Kieran S. O’Brien2,3,4,5, Thomas M. Lietman2,3,4,5, Catherine E. Oldenburg2,3,4,5*

1 Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Nouna, Burkina Faso, 2 Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America, 3 Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America, 4 Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America, 5 Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

* sieali@yahoo.fr (AS); catherine.oldenburg@ucsf.edu (CEO)

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See the article online at PLOS Medicine.


“Azithromycin during Routine Well-Infant Visits to Prevent Death”

The New England Journal of Medicine

Published: 18 January 2024

Ali Sié, M.D., Ph.D., Mamadou Ouattara, M.D., Mamadou Bountogo, M.D., Valentin Boudo, M.S., Thierry Ouedraogo, Ph.D., Guillaume Compaoré, M.D., Clarisse Dah, M.D., Cheik Bagagnan, M.S., Elodie Lebas, R.N.,
Huiyu Hu, M.S.P.H., Jessica Rice, M.P.H., Travis C. Porco, Ph.D., M.P.H., Benjamin F. Arnold, Ph.D., M.P.H., Thomas M. Lietman, M.D.,
and Catherine E. Oldenburg, Sc.D., M.P.H.

From Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Nouna, Burkina Faso (A.S., M.O., M.B., V.B., T.O., G.C., C.D., C.B.); and the Francis I. Proctor Foundation (E.L., H.H., T.C.P., B.F.A., T.M.L., C.E.O., J.R.), the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (T.C.P., T.M.L., C.E.O.), the Department of Ophthalmology (T.C.P., B.F.A., T.M.L., C.E.O.), and the Institute for Global Health Sciences (T.M.L., C.E.O.), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco. Dr. Oldenburg can be contacted at catherine.oldenburg@ucsf.edu or at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, 490 Illinois St., Fl. 2, San Francisco, CA 94143.

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See the article online at nejm.org.