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Moving epilepsy care closer to home: Dr. Gagandeep Singh & Dr. Meenakshi Sharma

Can bringing epilepsy care to people’s homes improve outcomes? A cluster randomized trial compared home care with community health workers to standard clinic care in India. Twenty-four clusters, each comprising 10 people with epilepsy, were randomized to either home-based or clinic care. Home-care recipients had better medication adherence and fewer seizures, compared with clinic-care recipients. Over two years, significantly more people in the clinic care arm dropped out of the trial.

Epilepsy care in Ukraine: Dr. Olha Tychkivska

How has the war in Ukraine affected people with epilepsy and their families, as well as the physicians who care for them? Dr. Alina Ivaniuk speaks with Dr. Olha Tychkivska about efforts to obtain and distribute anti-seizure medications, as well as other challenges to epilepsy care.

Time, education, persistence to reduce the epilepsy treatment gap: China’s story

Addressing epilepsy stigma from the ground up: Mary Secco

Stigma leads to discrimination and can affect all aspects of a person’s life. Dr. Bruna Nucera talked with Mary Secco about various aspects of stigma, as well as the International Bureau for Epilepsy’s resources for addressing epilepsy stigma in Africa. IBE plans to produce similar resources customized to other regions.