Background: Previous studies in Africa have shown severity of toxidermia with a risk mortality and mucosal synechia. Our objective was to study the epidemiological, clinical, etiological evolutionary aspects Dakar. Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective conducted at Department Dermatology Hospital Le Dantec from January 2001 December 2015. She identified all cases hospitalization this departm...

Julie Solo (Nairobi) is Staff Program Associate; Annamaria Cerulli was Michigan Fellow (Dakar) at the time of the case studies and is now Director of Foreign Assistance for the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua; Robert Miller (NY) is Senior Program Associate; Ian Askew (Nairobi) is Project Director and Elizabeth Pearlman (NY) is Project Assistant, all with the Population Council’s Africa Operatio...

OBJECTIVE To describe the sampling techniques and survey procedures used in identifying male clients who frequent brothels to buy sexual services from female sex workers in Dakar, Senegal, with the aim of measuring the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and investigating related risk behaviours. METHODS Surveys were conducted in seven brothels in Dakar, Senegal. Client...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Basic stroke features are hardly known in sub-Saharan countries, and no data are available in Senegal. METHODS We performed a retrospective hospital-based study in Dakar, Senegal, to assess risk factors and etiology of stroke. Patients were recruited from January 1, 2003, to July 31, 2004, at the Hôpital Principal, Dakar. Strokes had to be ascertained by computed tomogr...

In this paper we explicit the derivative of the flows of one dimensional reflected diffusion processes. We then get stochastic representations for derivatives of viscosity solutions of one dimensional semilinear parabolic partial differential equations and parabolic variational inequalities with Neumann boundary conditions. Key-words: Reflected backward stochastic differential equations, semili...

The aim of this study was to determine prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, and its risk factors in Dakar. Six hundred people aged 20 and older, living in the city of Dakar were interviewed. This sample was constructed using the combined quota method in order to strive to representativeness of the target population. Prevalence of hypertension was 27.50%. Quarter of tho...

1 Laboratory of Physics of the Atmosphere and Ocean Simeon Fongang, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 4 LOCEAN Laboratory, IRD-UPMC-CNRS-MNHN, Sorbonne Universités (Univ. Paris VI), Paris, France, 5 Institut d...

Introduction: Le suicidé est le sujet mort par suicide et le suicidant est la personne ayant fait des tentatives de suicide. L'objectif de cette étude porte sur l'analyse épidémiologique des suicides dans la région de Dakar. Méthodes: Par une étude rétrospective portant sur les registres du service d'anatomie pathologique de l'Hôpital Aristide Le Dantec, nous rapportons 143 suicides sur 10 ans....

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is a major public health problem in many sub-Saharan African countries, but data on the main cardiovascular risk factors-hypertension and obesity-are almost nonexistent in Senegal. The aims of this study were therefore (i) to report the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among adults in Dakar, (ii) to assess the prevalence of general a...

To measure morbidity due to malaria and to study its relationship with transmission and parasitemia in children living in an area of low malaria endemicity, a cohort study of 343 schoolchildren was undertaken during a one-year period in Dakar, Senegal. From parallel investigations on transmission and the frequency of malana as a cause for outpatient visits, three different seasons were chosen f...