Objectives: This study aimed to document the means women use to obtain abortions in the capital cities of Benin and Burkina Faso, and to learn whether or not use of misoprostol has become an alternative to other methods of abortion, and the implications for future practice. Study design: We conducted in-depth, qualitative interviews between 2014 an...
Deforestation and mining activities have proven to be very damaging to rivers because these activities disturb the environmental characteristics of rivers. Thus, the concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), particulate organic carbon (POC), particulate nitrogen (PN), and Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) were measured monthly during 2 hydrological yea...
In arid and semi-arid regions, irrigation management is important to avoid water loss by soil evaporation and deep percolation (DP). In this context, estimating the irrigation water demand has been investigated by many studies in the Haouz plain. However, DP losses beneath irrigated areas in the plain have not been quantified. To fill the gap, this...
This paper is a contribution to the understanding of surface dynamics of tropical shields over geological timescales. Emphasis is put on the fundamental and applied implications of regolith production and dispersion processes through the formation, dissection and preservation of landforms. It is based on the case study of sub Saharan West Africa, w...
Le projet Vaccins Méningite a permis à des millions d'Africains de disposer d'un vaccin peu coûteux, le MenAfriVac, grâce à un transfert de technologie. Les récits de la biomédecine en ont fait une histoire à succès, un mythe sociotechnique anonyme et collectif dans lequel le MenAfriVac revêt une efficacité magique. Les promoteurs du vaccin ont cho...
To enable mutual health funds to extend coverage to poor people, the Mutual Health Support Network (Réseau d'appui aux mutuelles de santé - RAMS) in 2012 launched an initiative in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Action and Solidarity (ministère de l'Action sociale et de la Solidarité nationale - MASSN) in Burkina Faso. This article reveal...
Solid-state fermentation (SSF) is a cultural method that holds tremendous potentials for the production of numerous microbial value-added compounds in various industries. As for every other process, experimental designs can provide tools to improve the product yields, diminish the production time and thus eventually decreasing the cost of the whole...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to review options for measuring innovation in the informal sector and proposes an agenda for future work. Design/methodology/approach - It starts with a review of surveys of innovation in the formal business sector, and related definitions, as sources of questions and definitions which could be applied to the ...
Background. There is a lack of data on the burden of malaria in the first trimester of pregnancy in Africa, mainly because pregnant women generally attend the maternity clinic late. Bed nets are rarely provided to women before the second trimester of pregnancy and intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is not recommended b...
A new species of Raspailia (Raspaxilla) frondosa sp. nov. is described from the deep seamounts of the Norfolk and New Caledonia Ridges. The morphology of the species resembles that of a frond or a fern, and its unique highly compressed axial skeleton of interlaced spongin fibres without spicules in combination with a radial extra axial skeleton of ...
