Published in Health policy and planning
The provision of a secure and safe blood supply has taken on new importance in sub-Saharan Africa with the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Blood transfusion services capable of providing safe blood are not cheap, however, and there has been some debate on the desirability and sustainability of different financing mechanisms for blood transfusion servic...
Published in The New England journal of medicine
Among women who live in areas with high rates of transmission of malaria, the susceptibility to malaria is highest during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and the early postpartum period.
Published in Africa recovery
The conference ¿Dakar Framework for Action¿ held in Dakar, Senegal, April 26-28, 2000, declared that education is not only the key to sustainable development, but also a fundamental human right. It was stated that by 2015 all children must have access to and be able to complete primary school. The elimination of gender disparities in access to prim...
Published in Joicfp News
This article reports the proceedings of the meeting conducted by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Governing Council (GC) in Morocco. A total of 29 out of the 30 volunteer GC members attended the meeting. The activities of the first day included a visit to the Centers for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Communication Develop...
Published in Lancet (London, England)
Tafenoquine is effective and well tolerated. It has the potential to replace currently used drugs for malaria chemoprophylaxis.
Published in Reproductive freedom news / from the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
This article presents the publication ¿Women of the World--Francophone Africa: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives,¿ by Codou Bop, a Senegalese women's rights activist. This book contains a comprehensive review of the reproductive health and rights of women in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, and Chad. I...
Published in American journal of epidemiology
To identify factors associated with improved performance of health care workers who treat ill children in developing countries, the authors analyzed a sample of consultations of children with malaria (defined as any fever) from a national health facility survey conducted in the Central African Republic from December 1995 to January 1996. Twenty-eig...
Published in Lancet (London, England)
This randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial examined the efficacy of oral artemether for the prevention of Schistosoma mansoni infection among 354 children from Cote d'Ivoire. Stool specimens were screened over 4 consecutive days, followed by two mass treatments with praziquantel 4 weeks apart. All S. mansoni negative children were rando...
Published in International journal of epidemiology
The method is illustrated by a map showing the improvement of risk prediction brought about by the second stage. The advantages and shortcomings of this approach are discussed in the context of the need for further development of methodology and software.
Published in Health policy and planning
A decade after the first International Conference on Safe Motherhood, maternal mortality remains very high in most West African countries, even in capital cities. The detection of high risk pregnancies, known as the risk approach, during antenatal consultations has been the basis of most maternal and child health programmes over the last decade. Th...
