Eleven new species of Cheiracanthium, C. boendense sp. nov. (Democratic Republic of Congo), C. falcis sp. nov. (Gabon), C. foordi sp. nov. (South Africa), C. ghanaense sp. nov. (Ghana), C. kabalense sp. nov. (Uganda), C. kakamega sp. nov. (Kenya), C. kakumense sp. nov. (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana), C. lukiense sp. nov. (Democratic Republic of Congo), C. mayombense sp. nov....

1 Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 2 University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3 Division of International and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals & University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 Médecins Sans Frontières Access...

Programme National de Nutrition (PRONANUT), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Evolution, Ecology and Genetics Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. Hospital General de Reference, Zone de Sante de Popokabaka, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Centre Neuropsychopathologique, Universite de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Malaria is a major public health problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite progress achieved over the past decade in the fight against malaria, further efforts have to be done such as in the surveillance and the containment of Plasmodium falciparum resistant strains. We investigated resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies currently in use in Democratic Republic of Congo...

Programme outcome: The IFRC 2010 support strategy and plan for the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Red Cross of DRC) was based on the National Society’s (NS) 20092013 Strategic Development Plan and was designed to help the NS provide vulnerable communities with life-saving first aid, clean water and sanitation, health and hygiene promotion, HIV/AIDS support, sexual and gender bas...

Inguinal hernia surgery in developing countries: should laparoscopic repairs be performed ? Berthier Nsadi, Olivier Detry, Willy Arung Department of Abdominal Surgery, CUK, University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Department of Abdominal Surgery and Transplantation, CHU Liege, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium, Department of General Surgery, University of Lubumbashi Clinics, Univ...

* Department of Environmental Medicine, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan * * Department of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan ** * Ndeko Basile Medical Center, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo **** Department of Pediatrics, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo ***** Department of Health Sci...

Screening of fetal alcohol syndrome using the T-ACE questionnaire in semi-rural areas around Lubumbashi: lessons learned Toni Kasole Lubala, Nina Lubala, Augustin Mulangu Mutombo, Olivier Mukuku, Oscar Numbi Luboya Faculty of Medecine, University of Lubumbashi, BP 1825, Democratic Republic of Congo Corresponding author: Olivier Mukuku, Faculty of Medecine, University of Lubumbashi, BP 1825, Dem...

A new species, Kosteletzkya rotundalata, is described from northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. A second species, K. borkouana, originally characterized as endemic to northern Chad, is here documented from several localities in the Albertine Rift of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1 Departments of Parasitology and Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 2 Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) UMR 177, Centre International de Recherche-Développement sur l’Elevage en zone Subhumide (CIRDES), Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 4 Belgian Technical Coopera...