French Studies in Southern Africa / Études françaises en Afrique australe, n°47, 2017, 241 p. – ISSN 0259-0247

Les soins palliatifs en hématologie: quel avenir en Afrique?

Les hémopathies malignes sont des maladies graves qui touchent de nombreux individus à travers le monde. Elles marquent l’entrée dans un lourd et long processus de soins. Le continent africain n’en est pas épargné. La lutte contre ce fléau en Afrique est confortée à de nombreux défis, malgré l’absence ou l’insuffisance des ressources matérielles et financières, et du manque de personnel qualifi...

L’oncologie médicale, nouvelle spécialité en Afrique?

Résumé Cancer is a major public health problem in Africa. Advances in the treatment of cancers over the last decade are undeniable. Multidisciplinary approach is essential for improved patient's management. Medical oncology is a recently-recognized speciality in Africa Indeed, many African countries do not have doctors or a sufficient number of doctors qualified to practice in this medical spec...

Recent trends in premarital fertility in sub-Saharan Africa]Évolution récente de la fécondité prénuptiale en Afrique sub-saharienne

Shelley Clark, Alissa Koski, Emily Smith-Greenaway Age at first marriage has been rising throughout sub-Saharan Africa for more than twenty-five years. The median age at first marriage has increased by an average of 1-2 years across the region but substantial variation in age at first marriage remains (Garenne 2004). In some western and eastern African countries including Burkina Faso, Guinea, ...

Rabies in southern Africa.

The first confirmed outbreak of rabies in Africa, believed to have followed the importation of an infected dog from England in 1892, occurred in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and was brought under control in 1894. An unconfirmed epidemic of rabies in dogs occurred in western Zambia in 1901. By the following year the disease had apparently spread along a major trade route, to cause ...

Child Vulnerability and AIDS: Case Studies from Southern Africa