Survival after burn in a sub-Saharan burn unit: Challenges and opportunities

Biofuel Development Initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities and Challenges

In recent years, biofuels have emerged as a suitable alternative to hydrocarbon fuel due to their foreseen potential of being a future energy resource. Biofuel development initiatives have been successfully implemented in countries like Brazil, United States of America, European Union, Canada, Australia, and Japan. However, such programmes have been stagnant in Africa due to various constraints...

Dementia in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and opportunities

Burn unit: colonization of burn wounds and local environment.

BACKGROUND We present the results of a comparative prospective study of the resistance profile of strains isolated from pathological material of patients hospitalized in the burn unit of the military hospital in Rabat and from their environment over a period of one and a half years (July 2009-February 2011). METHODS The study concerned 125 pathological products from patients (40 men, 20 women...

Global burn care challenges

The Paraffin Safety Association (PASASA) of Southern Africa is a non-profit organisation established in 1996 to ensure that paraffin/ kerosene use is safe for low-income households. PASASA achieves this through strategic partnerships, research and promotion of safe practices through health education and policy interventions. One of the many challenges that PASASA is trying to overcome is the la...

The Essential Burn Unit Handbook

Burn care is a rapidly changing field that is increasingly managed in very specialized units. The aim of the two authors of this book was to produce a concise distillation of current burn care based on the practices of the Philadelphia Burn Unit. The handbook was targeted primarily at trainees who are responsible for the day-to-day care of burn victims, whether they be working in emergency room...