ave malaria control efforts contributed to the reduction in infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 15 years? Using large household surveys collected in 19 countries between 2000 and 2015, we estimate the correlation between the distribution of bednets and the progress in child survival. We find that the large increase in bednets owner...
From September 1870 to February 1871, the Prussian army’s siege of Paris resulted in a harsh famine. Using original data from vital records and military registers, we investigate the impact of the siege in terms of both mortality and the height stature of survivors in one of the poorest areas of the city. We first estimate that deaths more than dou...
Background: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate. INDEPTH Network members maintain population surveillance in Health and Demographic Surveillance S...
Le Rwanda est un des pays Africains qui a le plus souffert des crises politiques depuis l’indépendance, surtout au cours de la décennie 1990-1999, culminant avec le génocide de 1994. Les conséquences de ces crises sur les variables économiques, démographiques et sanitaires sont nombreuses : baisse des revenus, augmentation de la mortalité, baisse d...
Background: Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur in Africa and Asia, these are also the regions where such deaths are least likely to be registered. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem...
Il y a trente ans, en juin 1984, pour la première fois en Afrique, il était prouvé que des décès massifs d'enfants étaient dus à une intoxication alimentaire par l'ackee, Blighia sapida Koenig (Sapindales, Sapindaceae). Cet article retrace l'histoire de cette découverte et passe en revue les autres cas d'intoxication par l'arille de Blighia identif...
