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...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundPrompt and effective malaria diagnosis and treatment is a cornerstone of malaria control. Case management guidelines recommend confirmatory testing of suspected malaria cases, then prescription of specific drugs for uncomplicated malaria and for severe malaria. This study aims to describe case management practices for children aged 1–59 m...
Published in Fire Ecology
BackgroundAn often cited rule of savanna fire ecology is that early dry-season fires burn less intensely than late dry-season ones; however, few studies base their experimental design on the practices of fire managers in working landscapes. The objective of this research was to study the factors influencing fireline intensity, combustion, and patch...
Published in AIDS research and human retroviruses
It is now recognized that to fully understand the role of host genetic variation on susceptibility to HIV-1 infection, investigations must be extended to African populations. We sought to determine if genetic variation in IL10 are associated with HIV-1 infection in a West African cohort in Mali. HIV-infected and -uninfected individuals were genotyp...
Published in Viruses
We are currently facing a pandemic of COVID-19, caused by a spillover from an animal-originating coronavirus to humans occurring in the Wuhan region of China in December 2019. From China, the virus has spread to 188 countries and regions worldwide, reaching the Sahel region on March 2, 2020. Since whole genome sequencing (WGS) data is very crucial ...
Published in Conflict and Health
BackgroundThe BRANCH Consortium recently conducted 10 mixed-methods case studies to investigate the provision of health and nutrition interventions for women and children in conflict-affected countries, aiming to better understand the dominant influences on humanitarian health actors’ programmatic decision-making and how such actors surmount interv...
Published in Family practice
Minimal data are available on the clinical activity of general practitioners (GPs) in Africa. To describe the health problems managed by GPs in Mali as compared with France where epidemiological transition is already advanced. A retrospective, multicenter study, conducted in five Malian Community Health Centers. We compared their consultation data ...
Published in Health Policy Open
Background and objectives In Mali, the non-governmental association (NGO) ARCAD Santé PLUS launched the CovidPrev program in response to the COVID-19 outbreak to ensure continuity of HIV care-related activities. This study aimed to identify individual and structural factors associated with mental health disorders (MHD) in the NGO’s healthcare worke...
Rapport en vue du Comité de thèse M. Gaoussou Fofana (doctorant).
L’humanitaire franco-suisse Sophie Pétronin, enlevée le 24 décembre 2016 dans le nord du Mali, a passé quatre années en détention aux mains du Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans (GSIM), alliance de cellules djihadistes affiliée à Al-Qaïda. Elle a été libérée le 8 octobre dernier avec trois autres captifs, dont l’ancien ministre malien Sou...
