Cantines populaires, crèches communautaires, jardins de quartier, monnaies locales, groupes de production artisanale, de consommation directe, d'entraide, réseaux d'échange de savoirs, les initiatives fondées sur les solidarités fourmillent dans le monde. Les travailleurs précaires, les populations de classe populaire, noires, indigènes, et parmi e...
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...
In the Nopoor project, a hundred researchers from all over the world set out to explore the successes and failures of poverty alleviation efforts in Africa, Asia and Latin America, discovering missing links, new insights, and previously overlooked topics. This blend of voices and perspectives presents comprehensive and challenging responses to key ...
Background: In this laboratory study we measured the trophic performances of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus larvae (Diptera: Culicidae), both being vectors of the dengue fever, chikungunya and zika virus in the world. Methods: Depending on the quantities of plant material contained in the breeding sites, the bioassays enabled to assess the time...
BACKGROUND: Programmes of pre-elimination of malaria have been implemented in Senegal since 2010, and the burden of malaria has decreased substantially. These changes in the epidemiology should be monitored with effective tools that allow changes in patterns of transmission to be estimated. In Dielmo and Ndiop, two villages of Senegal with differen...
Background: On October 21, 2010, Haiti was struck by a cholera epidemic for the first time in over a century. Epidemiological and molecular genetic data have clearly demonstrated that the bacterium was imported. Nevertheless, the persistence of the epidemic for more than two years, the high incidence rates in some coastal areas and the seasonal exa...
BACKGROUND:Since the beginning of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, attack rates have varied drastically with alternating peak and lull phases, which were partly associated with the fluctuating dry, rainy and cyclonic seasons. According to a study conducted in 2012, the toxigenic V. cholerae O1 strain responsible for the outbreak did not settle at a s...
