Publications (5742)
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Pregnancy-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites
B. SOURA
Background Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Part of the problem is a lack of accurate, population-based information characterising the issues and informing solutions. Population surveillance sites, such as those operated within the INDEPT(...)
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Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites
B. SOURA
Background Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased. The World Health Organization's Member States have called for a 25% reduction in premature NCD mortality by 2025, which can only be achieved by substantial reductions in risk fa(...)
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Cause-specific mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites
B. SOURA
Background Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and Demographic Surveillance sites. By registering all deaths over time and carrying out verbal autopsi(...)
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The INDEPTH standard population for low-and middle-income countries, 2013
B. SOURA
Crude rates such as the crude death rate are functions of both the age-specific rates and the age composition of a population. However, differences in the age structure between two populations or two time periods can result in specious differences in the corresponding crude rates making direct comparisons between populations or across time ina(...)
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HIV/AIDS-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites
B. SOURA
Background As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level. Systematic application of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in defined populations provides an opportunity to assess the mortality burden of(...)
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Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites
B. SOURA
Background Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate. INDEPTH Network members maintain population surveillance in Health and Demographic Surveillan(...)
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Mortality from external causes in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites
B. SOURA
Background Mortality from external causes, of all kinds, is an important component of overall mortality on a global basis. However, these deaths, like others in Africa and Asia, are often not counted or documented on an individual basis. Overviews of the state of external cause mortality in Africa and Asia are therefore based on uncertain info(...)
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Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites
B. SOURA
Background Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur in Africa and Asia, these are also the regions where such deaths are least likely to be registered. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this pro(...)
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Anticancer activity of essential oils and their chemical components - a review
Bagora Bayala , Imaël HN Bassole , Riccardo Scifo , Charlemagne Gnoula , Laurent Morel , Jean-Marc A Lobaccaro , Jacques Simpore
Essential oils are widely used in pharmaceutical, sanitary, cosmetic, agriculture and food industries for their bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, antiparasitical and insecticidal properties. Their anticancer activity is well documented. Over a hundred essential oils from more than twenty plant families have been tested on more than twenty t(...)
Essential oils, anticancer activity
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Variability of vitamins B1, B2 and minerals content in baobab (Adansonia digitata) leaves in East and West Africa
TRAORE HYACINTHE, Parkouda Charles, Korbo Adama, Compaore/Sereme Diarra, Mamoudou H. DICKO
The regional variability and age-age correlation on vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and minerals (Ca, Mg, P, K, Cu, Fe, Mn, Na, and Zn) concentration in baobab leaves were investigated. Baobab was cultivated from seeds from 11 african countries. Vitamins B1 and B2 content were assessed using microbiological VitaFast kits methods and minerals by atomic(...)
Baobab, leaves, minerals, variation
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Impact of Technological Diagram on Biochemical and Microbiological Quality of Borassus akeassii Wine Produced Traditionally in Burkina Faso
François TAPSOBA,*, Aly SAVADOGO, Cheikna ZONGO , Alfred Sababenedyo TRAORÉ
Palm wines are produced following several traditional processes, very consumed and appreciated in West Africa. In South-West of Burkina Faso, Borassus akeassii palm wine, plays a nutritional and socio-economic role and replaces Sorghum beer. Because of reported health issues due to the bad practices of palm wine tappers, we performed survey ai(...)
Borassus akeassii, palm wine, survey, technological diagrams
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Determination of β-carotene by High Performance Liquid Chromatography in Six Varieties of Mango (Mangifera indica L) from Western Region of Burkina Faso
Touridomon Issa Somé, Abdoul Karim Sakira and Eric Dofinizoumou Tamimi
Six varieties of mangoes (Amelia, Brooks, Kent, Keitt, Lippens, Springfield) harvested from different pedological areas of the western region of Burkina Faso (Bobo-Dioulasso, Orodara, Banfora) were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography in order to determine the β-carotene content. The study revealed a variability in β-carotene con(...)
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Impact of sheet erosion mechanisms on organic carbon losses from crusted soils in the Sahel
S.B. Maïga-Yaleu, P. Chivenge, H. Yacouba, I. Guiguemde, H. Karambiri, O. Ribolzi, A. Bary, V. Chaplot
Soil surface crusting influences water infiltration and runoff but its impact on soil organic carbon (SOC) losses by sheet erosion is largely unknown. Because there are different mechanisms of sheet erosion, from raindrop detachment and transport by raindrops interacting with flow (RIFT), to detachment and transport by flow, that require a cer(...)
Erosion mechanism, Soil surface feature, Land degradation, Soil organic carbon, Nutrients
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L’ancrage culturel dans Les carnets secrets d’une fille de joie de Patrick G. Ilboudo
SARE/MARE Honorine
Les carnets secrets d'une fille de joie de Patrick G. Ilboudo est un récit de la vie d'une femme de mauvaise réputation, appelée Fatou Zalme. Cette dernière décide de raconter ses multiples expériences à son «petit frère» Mita Wogada. Avec toute la lucidité qui sied, Fatou Zalme raconte avec force détails comment elle en est venue à la prostit(...)
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What lies behind gender inequalities in HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan African countries: Evidence from Kenya, Lesotho and Tanzania
Drissa Sia, Yentéma Onadja, Arijit Nandi, Anne Foro, Timothy Brewer
Within sub-Saharan Africa, women are disproportionately at risk for acquiring and having human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is important to clarify whether gender inequalities in HIV
prevalence in this region are explained by differences in the distributions of HIV risk factors, differences in the(...)
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