Published in Infectious Agents and Cancer
Head and neck squamous cell cancers are among the most aggressive. Their incidence and mortality rates are relatively lower in Middle Africa than worldwide, but in Gabon, these rates tend to be 2–3 fold higher than in neighboring countries. The main risk factors are alcohol and tobacco consumption. However, in the last decades, there was cumulated ...
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 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 Sexually transmitted diseases
The modes of transmission of HHV-8 are still unclear. To evaluate the distribution and transmission of HHV-8 infection serosurvey was conducted in a Cameroon hospital among 292 persons, including children (5-10 years), adolescents (15-20 years), and adults (30-40 years). Antibodies against lytic and latent antigens to HHV-8 were detected by immunof...
Published in Lancet (London, England)
This article highlights the crisis experienced in the beleaguered Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The peace talks to be conducted beginning January 20, 2000, will focus on the near-total collapse of health services and the impending humanitarian megacatastrophe in the country. The two civil wars for the past decades have resulted in an essentia...
Published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis is focusing on a small number of countries in Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan) and Asia (Afghanistan, Tajikistan), where progress has been hindered by armed conflict. In these countries the disintegration of health systems and difficulties of ac...
Published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The largest outbreak of poliomyelitis ever recorded in Africa (1093 cases) occurred from 1 March to 28 May 1999 in Luanda, Angola, and in surrounding areas. The outbreak was caused primarily by a type-3 wild poliovirus, although type-1 wild poliovirus was circulating in the outbreak area at the same time. Infected individuals ranged in age from 2 m...
Published in Pop Sahel : bulletin d'information sur la population et le développement
Democracy and development are fashionable concepts currently being cited by politicians and organizations involved in promoting development. However, Chad¿s Prime Minister believes that it was necessary for his country to have a one-party government during 1962-75 to better facilitate the nation-building process. He also believes that the concept o...
Published in Gender and development
This article assesses the impact of economic structural programs on the agricultural activities of women's groups in Cameroon, and explores women's ways of coping with the reduction in individual and family income and the loss of public services. It examines the role of 25 women's groups in both rural and urban areas of Cameroon's northwest and sou...
Published in Sexually transmitted diseases
This study examines the feasibility of providing comprehensive, low-cost sexually transmitted disease (STD) services through the existing primary care infrastructure in two semi-urban health centers in the Central African Republic. The results showed that out of the 9552 visits made by index patients and partners over a 28-month period, 60% were ma...
