Formalizing artisanal gold mining under the Minamata convention: Previewing the challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa

"Creating" Rural Informality: The Case of Artisanal Gold Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Nutrition Challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Minamata Convention on Mercury: Time to Seek Solutions with Artisanal Mining Communities

Gibb and O’Leary (2014) provided a timely review of the health effects of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), calling for immediate implementation of the recently signed Minamata Convention on Mercury. They noted that Article 7 of the Convention [United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 2013] requires national action plans that include a public health strategy on mercury...

A New Generation of Physicians in Sub-Saharan Africa?; Comment on “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians”

This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the implications of the emergence of non-physician clinicians (NPCs) on the health labour market for the education of medical doctors. We generally agree with those authors and we want to stress the importance of clarifying the terminology to describe these practitioners and of defining more formall...

The Challenge of AIDS-Related Malignancies in Sub-Saharan Africa

BACKGROUND With the lengthening of life expectancy among HIV-positive subjects related to the use of highly active antiretroviral treatments, an increased risk of cancer has been described in industrialized countries. The question is to determine what occurs now and will happen in the future in the low income countries and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where more than two-thirds of all HIV...