Wind energy potential and micro-turbine performance analysis in Djibouti-city, Djibouti

Female genital mutilation in Djibouti.

The practice of female genital mutilation (we will use the latest definition adopted by WHO/UNFP: female genital mutilation/cutting or FGM/C) is still widespread in 28 African countries. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that more than two million females undergo some form of genital mutilation every year. Its negative health impact and its ethical and human rights aspects have been...

Acute Diarrheas among French Soldiers in Djibouti

I read with great interest the article published by Ollivier and others 1 about gastrointestinal illnesses among French Forces deployed to Djibouti. It offers a panorama of infectious diarrheas occurring in French soldiers deployed in this East African country and points out the high incidence rate of these affections even compared with Western Africa. I worked in the Medicine Unit of the Frenc...

Malaria Epidemic and Drug Resistance, Djibouti

Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected before, during, and after a 1999 malaria epidemic in Djibouti shows that, despite a high prevalence of resistance to chloroquine, the epidemic cannot be attributed to a sudden increase in drug resistance of local parasite populations.

Qat Expenditures in Yemen and Djibouti: An Empirical Analysis

Identification of Rickettsiae, Uganda and Djibouti

1508 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 13, No. 10, October 2007 originally designed to identify infl uenza and relied on fever for specimen collection. Our retrospective selection criteria refl ected the classic initial manifestations of infl uenza (1,4), and thus could have missed nonfebrile cases. Second, the study was not designed to refl ect age distribution of children ...