BACKGROUND In Senegal, with the variable routine vaccination coverage, the risk for illness and death from measles still exists as evidenced by the measles epidemic episode in 2009. Since 2002 a laboratory-based surveillance system of measles was established by the Ministry of Health and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar. The present study analysed the data collected over the 10 years inclusive bet...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B is a major health concern in Africa. The vaccine against hepatitis B virus (HBV) was introduced into the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) of Cameroon and Senegal in 2005, and of CAR (Central African Republic) in 2008. A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess HBV immunization coverage following the vaccine's introduction into the EPI and factors associated w...

Acacia senegal is a multipurpose African tree that improves the soil fertility of degraded areas. The species is exploited mainly for gum arabic, but it also supplies fuel wood and fodder for animals. Despite its wide distribution in Africa, no microsatellite markers have yet been characterized for this species. In this study, we characterized 11 polymorphic microsatellite loci specifically des...

In this paper we address the question of farm-nonfarm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We examine whether increasing off-farm employment opportunities for rural households – resulting from increased horticulture exports and associated agro-industrialization – has benefitted the smallholder farm sector through investment linkages. We use data from a household survey i...

Since 1989, CRS Senegal has been implementing microfinance (MF) activities in partnership with the local Catholic Church dioceses and Caritas offices, using the village banking methodology. In 1999, CRS and Caritas Senegal began a MF institutional transformation process that joined the most successful village banking program in the diocese of Thiès and two CRS MF projects in the Casamance regio...

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) started in December China and has become few months later, a public health emergency of international concern, then became pandemic. In Senegal, the first cases were declared March 2020. purpose this study was to describe epidemiological clinical characteristics Ziguinchor, southern region Senegal identify factors associated with death cases.

Cet article présente une approche basée sur l’annotation sémantique des CVs et des offres d’emploi pour automatiser le processus de recrutement électronique. Le principe de base consiste à modéliser formellement le contenu de ces documents en termes de leurs acquis (cas des CVs) ou requis (cas des offres d’emploi), à l’aide d’un référentiel commun entre les recruteurs et les chercheurs d’emploi...

Sixty patients with positive acid fast bacilli sputum smears between were enrolled consecutively between March and August 2012 in the Saint-Louis (Senegal) health district to determine the Health System Delay in response to tuberculosis. The length of time between the first consultation of a TB patient and the start of treatment was, on average, 8.1 days and is among the shortest in the literat...

A comparative study of human-landing catches (HLCs) and odor-baited entry traps (OBETs) for sampling malaria vectors was conducted in two different bioclimatic areas of Senegal, the Sahelian and Sudano-Guinean phytogeographic zones, from September to December 2002. Mosquitoes were collected by the two methods both indoors and outdoors. The reliability of OBET samples was tested by comparing the...

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