Pyrenacantha staudtii is a medicinal plant used widely in the West African sub-region particularly in Nigeria for the treatment of threatened abortion and dysmenorrhea. This study reports for the first time the chemical isolation and characterization of 3-carbomethoxypyridine from one of the active fractions of the methanolic extract of Pyrenacantha staudtii leaves. The crude methanolic extract...

On March 2014 the WHO notified the outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea, and infection quickly spread to another West African countries including Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. Current outbreak is the largest in the history, since discovery of the virus in 1976. Imported cases and infection among healthcare workers in Europe and United States have elucidated necessity of better e...

How to cite this article: Akinboro AA, Adejumo PO, Onibokun AO, Olowokere AE. Community health care workers’ risk perception of occupational exposure to HIV in Ibadan, South-west Nigeria. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #338, 9 pages. http:// dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm. v4i1.338 Background: The ultimate goal of all healthcare workers (HCWs) is to maintain a healthy population and e...

This study estimates liquidity premiums using the recently developed Liu (2006) measure within a multifactor capital asset pricing model (CAPM) including size premiums and a time varying parameter model for the West African emerging market of Nigeria. The evidence suggests that liquidity factors are relevant only for financial and basic materials sector stocks while size factor is more generall...

How to Cite this Article: Ademuyiwa AO, Mosaku SK, Ogbolu RE, Oshodi YO, Bode CO. Assessment of Parents’ Satisfaction with Paediatric Surgery Services at a Tertiary Hospital in South West Nigeria: A Quality Control Check. Ann Med Health Sci Res. 2017;7:42-46. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, whic...

The 2014 Ebola outbreak started in early-March, Guinea (Baize et al. 2014). Following, the outbreak spread into Liberia in March, Sierra Leone in May and Nigeria in July. Today every city in the affected regions embedded in the West Africa is at risk (Pigott et al. 2014). Hypotheses have been raised about possible mechanisms that made dynamics of Ebola transmission exacerbated (Bausch & Schwarz...

Henry Tourneux, in his 2007 article “L’inversion tonale en kotoko” (Tourneux 2007) drew our attention on a phenomenon concerning systematic tone variations contrasting a Low and High final tone in the tone patterns of two dialects of Kotoko. A similar phenomenon was observed in our study of Geji, a Chadic language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. This paper aims at documenting this variation an...

Introduction Available data concerning various neurologic disease entities occurring in West African are still appalling scanty, such that a vigorous effort seems urgently essential in the next few years to rectify this lag. In various parts of Nigeria, like much elsewhere in Africa, much neurologic problems presently remain inadvertently neglected for the more pressing consideration of the com...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is classified into seven genotypes based on genetic diversity, and most genotypes have been found in Africa. Infections with HCV genotype 2 (HCV2) are most prevalent in West Africa and it was suggested that HCV2 originated in West Africa. To better understand the evolutionary epidemiology of HCV2 in Africa, we examined new NS5B sequences of HCV2 strains obtained from Côt...

West Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world. The sixteen nations listed by the United Nations in this sub-region have some of the lowest gross domestic products in the world. Health care infrastructure is deficient in most of these countries. Cardiac surgery, with its heavy financial outlay is unavailable in many West African countries. These facts notwithstanding, some West African ...