CSR has been the subject of an abundant critical literature but mainly related to the Western context. This text aims at questionning the adaptation of these criticisms to the context of West Africa through the analysis of three cases of gold mines in Mali and Burkina Faso.The chapter shows that the CSR actions undertaken by the mining companies ar...
Published in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Clinical outcomes of children who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-exposed in sub-Saharan Africa remain uncertain. The Sanitation Hygiene Infant Nutrition Efficacy (SHINE) trial evaluated improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and/or improved water, sanitation, and hygiene in 2 rural Zimbabwean districts with 15% antenatal HIV prevale...
Published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Most reports of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) have come from Europe and North America. The paucity of reports in Africa is in contrast with the demographics of the series in New York, Paris and UK with children of African ancestry accounting for over 40%, of all cases of MIS-C. With the global trend of higher prevalence of MIS-C in chil...
Published in Climatic Change
Crop breeding for resilience to changing climates is a key area of investment in African agricultural development, but proactively breeding for uncertain future climates is challenging. In this paper, we characterise efforts to breed new varieties of crops for climate resilience in southern Africa and evaluate the extent to which climate model proj...
Face à la conjoncture sanitaire que nous affrontons en 2020, le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) et la Banque mondiale, le G20, le Club de Paris et même le pape François se sont prononcés pour un allégement de la dette des pays les plus endettés aux premiers rangs desquels se trouvent de nombreux pays africains, la Chine faisant plus ou moins fi...
Published in Global Health Journal (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Africa can be “left behind” after other advanced continents recover from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as reflected by the global pandemic of HIV/AIDS. In this paper, we summarize potentially adaptable, effective and innovative strategies from China, Italy, and the U.S. The purpose is to help African countries with weaker healthc...
Published in Global Heart
Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in sub-Saharan Africa contributes to significant cardiac morbidity and mortality, yet prevalence estimates of RHD lesions in pregnancy are lacking. Objectives: Our first aim was to evaluate women using echocardiography to estimate the prevalence of RHD and other cardiac lesions in low-risk pregnancies. Our ...
Published in Malaria Journal
BackgroundThe emergence and spread of multidrug resistance poses a significant risk to malaria control and eradication goals in the world. There has been no indigenous malaria cases reported in China since 2017, and China is approaching national malaria elimination. Therefore, anti-malarial drug resistance surveillance and tracking the emergence an...
Published in BMC Medical Research Methodology
BackgroundEarly pregnancy weights are needed to quantify gestational weight gain accurately. Different methods have been used in previous studies to impute early-pregnancy weights. However, no studies have systematically compared imputed weight accuracy across different imputation techniques. This study aimed to compare four methodological approach...
Published in Public Health in Practice (Oxford, England)
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has wrecked great havoc in many spheres of life, including the educational, health, economic, and agricultural sectors. To break the transmission chain of SARS-CoV-2, public health safety measures such as social distancing, regular hand hygiene, border closure, restrictions on internal movement, and lockd...
