Guinea-Bissau: 30 years of militarized democratization (1991–2021)

Democratization via Elections in an African “Narco-state”? The Case of Guinea-Bissau

Recent development cooperation with Guinea‐Bissau, focusing on good governance, state‐ building and conflict prevention, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabili‐ zation of volatile political, military and economic structures. The portrayal of Guinea‐ Bissau as a failed “narco‐state”, as well as Western aid meant to stabilize this state, are both based on dubious...

Commentary: Contrary findings from Guinea-Bissau and Papua New Guinea.

Establishing a twin registry in Guinea-Bissau.

Twins traditionally retain a special status in many African societies. In Guinea-Bissau, twins are often well regarded yet still suffer from a very high mortality, especially in the perinatal and infant period. At the Bandim Health Project, a health and demographic surveillance site, we have recently established one of the first twin registries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our short-term aim is to de...

Evaluation of pot-chlorination of wells during a cholera outbreak, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, 2008.

We evaluated the ability of UNICEF-designed pot-chlorinators to achieve recommended free residual chlorine (FRC) levels in well water in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, during a cholera outbreak. Thirty wells were randomly selected from six neighbourhoods. Pot-chlorinators--perforated plastic bottles filled with gravel, sand and calcium hypochlorite granules--were placed in each well. FRC was measured b...

The epidemiology of malaria in Prábis, Guinea-Bissau.

This article reports upon a community survey of malaria in Prábis, Guinea-Bissau. A house to house census of the population was initially carried out from August to December 1991 (rainy season). After completing the census of each village, the population was invited to come, a week later, to a central point, where they were medically examined and finger-prick blood samples were collected for ep...