Use of community health workers (CHWs) has been implemented the same way in urban and rural areas despite differences in availability of health providers and sociodemographic characteristics. A household survey was conducted in rural and urban areas in eastern Uganda, and all children who were febrile in the previous two weeks were assessed for their symptoms, treatment received at home, and wh...

Accurate and current land cover information is required to develop strategies for sustainable development improve the quality of life in urban areas. This study presents an approach that combines multi-seasonal Sentinel-1 (S1) Sentinel-2 (S2) data, a random forest (RF) classifier order map four major centers Zimbabwe. The specific objective this was assess potential (rainy, post-rainy, dry seas...

land vulnerable to desertification increased in the mediterranean basin since world war ii dueto several interacting factors including climate variations, land-use changes and growing human pressure. itwas hypothesized that the increase in the level of land vulnerability is not distributed homogeneously overtime and space while impacting preferentially landscapes surrounding large urban agglome...

Background Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma and belongs to neglected tropical diseases. The has been reported in 78 countries, with around 290.8 million people need treatment 2018. predominantly considered rural subsequent focus research control activities settings. Over past decades, occurrence even expansion schistosomiasis foci peri-ur...

This paper examines the links between solid urban waste management and peri-urban agriculture in Bamako and Ouagadougou. Staple crop farmers in the vicinity of both cities value urban waste as a source of organic matter and are prepared to pay for it. Cultivation on degraded soils has even been revived in some cases thanks to this readily available resource. However, uncertain land tenure means...

more than 50% of the global population already lives in urban settlements which are projected to absorb almost all the global population growth to 2050, amounting to some additional three billion people. over the next decades the increase in rural population in many developing countries will be overshadowed by population flows to cities. rural populations globally are expected to peak at a leve...