Published in BMC Medical Research Methodology
BackgroundThe monitoring and evaluation of public health programs based on traditional face-to-face interviews in hard-to-reach and unstable regions present many challenges. Mobile phone-based methods are considered to be an effective alternative, but the validity of mobile phone-based data for assessing implementation strength has not been suffici...
Published in Malaria Journal
BackgroundThe current first-line treatments for uncomplicated malaria recommended by the National Malaria Control Programme in Mali are artemether–lumefantrine (AL) and artesunate–amodiaquine (ASAQ). From 2015 to 2016, an in vivo study was carried out to assess the clinical and parasitological responses to AL and ASAQ in Sélingué, Mali.MethodsChild...
Published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The SEMOS gold mine in Sadiola, southwestern Mali, has been implementing a malaria vector control programme for 15 y using indoor residual house spraying and sporadic larval control. Periodic screening of the vector populations have been carried out over the years to provide information to the control programme, mainly on vector species present and...
Published in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Ivermectin-based onchocerciasis elimination, reported in 2009-2012, for Bakoye and Falémé, Mali, supported policy-shifting from morbidity control to elimination of transmission (EOT). These foci are coendemic with lymphatic filariasis (LF). In 2007-2016 mass ivermectin plus albendazole administration was implemented. We report Ov16 (onchocerciasis)...
Entretien avec Marie Rodet, maîtresse de conférences en histoire africaine à la School of Oriental and African Studies, Université de Londres, Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye , chargée de recherche en anthropologie au Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France, Mamadou Sène Cissé, archiviste sur le projet de sauvetage des archives du cercle d...
Mali's first non-state radio went on air during the authoritarian rule of Moussa Traoré in 1988, challenging the common narrative that ties political and media liberalization together. Negotiations were conducted by Italian NGOs at a time when such organizations had become key political actors in Sahelian countries. The implementation of Radio Rura...
Published in International health
We assessed the association between women's participation in household decision making and justification of wife beating among married women ages 15-49 y in Mali. We employed a cross-sectional study design among 7893 women of reproductive age involving a two-stage sampling technique using version 6 of the Mali Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS) d...
Published in Malaria Journal
BackgroundSeasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a strategy for malaria control recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2012 for Sahelian countries. The Mali National Malaria Control Programme adopted a plan for pilot implementation and nationwide scale-up by 2016. Given that SMC is a relatively new approach, there is an urgent ...
Published in Reproductive Health
BackgroundPersistent challenges in meeting reproductive health and family planning goals underscore the value in determining what factors can be leveraged to facilitate modern contraceptive use, especially in poor access settings. In Mali, where only 15% of reproductive-aged women use modern contraception, understanding how women’s realities and he...
Published in Violence against women
Mali has implemented the Filets Sociaux (Jigisémèjiri) program that aims to reduce poverty through cash transfers (CTs) to predominantly male heads of household with accompanying measures. This paper reports on a qualitative study of the effects of the program on intimate partner relationships. In-depth interviews were conducted with men and women ...
