Département de Santé Publique, Unité de Recherche sur les Politiques et Systèmes de Santé, Centre Muraz, 2054 Avenue Mamadou Konaté, 01 BP 390 Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso Agence de Formation, de Recherche et d’Expertise en Santé pour l’Afrique (AFRICSanté), 773 Rue Guillaume Ouédraogo 01 BP 298 Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso Department of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Post Box 1130 Bli...

Effect of seasonal dynamics of vegetation cover on land surface models: a case study of NOAH LSM over a savanna farm land in eastern Burkina Faso, West Africa F. Bagayoko, S. Yonkeu, and N. C. van de Giesen Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft, Stevinweg 1, 2600 GA Delft, P.O. Box 5048, The Netherlands Center for Development Research (ZEF), Universi...

We investigated the evolution of Pfcrt K76T mutation five years after the withdrawal of chloroquine in Burkina Faso. A total of 675 clinical isolates collected from October 2010 to September 2012 were successfully genotyped. Single nucleotide polymorphism in Pfcrt (codon 76) gene was analyzed. The prevalence of resistant Pfcrt 76T allele was 20.55%. There was a progressive decrease of the propo...

BACKGROUND Paying for health care may exclude poor people. Burkina Faso adopted the DOTS strategy implementing "free care" for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment. This should increase universal health coverage and help to overcome social and economic barriers to health access. METHODS Straddling 2007 and 2008, in-depth interviews were conducted over a year among smear-positive pulmonar...

OBJECTIVES Evidence on whether removing fees benefits the poorest is patchy and weak. The aim of this paper is to measure the impact of user fee reforms on the probability of giving birth in an institution or undergoing a caesarean section (CS) in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Cameroon and Nigeria for the poorest strata of the population. SETTING Women's experience of user fees in 5 African co...

West African Countries account for almost half of the estimated 20 000 000 international migrants in the continent. In the frame of the scaling up of HAART, our study aims to identify specific features and constraints of access to care for HIV migrant patients returning to Burkina Faso. From January 2007 to August 2011, the Nanoro District Hospital, serving a rural area in the Centre-West of Bu...

BACKGROUND Good decision-making requires gathering and using sufficient information. Several knowledge translation platforms have been introduced in Burkina Faso to support evidence-informed decision-making. One of these is the rapid response service for health. This platform aims to provide quick access for policy-makers in Burkina Faso to highquality research evidence about health systems. Th...

BACKGROUND In sub-Saharan Africa, bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a potential hazard for animals and humans health. The goal of this study was to improve our understanding of bTB epidemiology in Burkina Faso and especially Mycobacterium bovis transmission within and between the bovine and human populations. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Twenty six M. bovis strains were isolated from 101 cattle ...

In Burkina Faso, the values that serve as clinical chemistry reference ranges are those provided by European manufacturers' insert sheets based on reference of the Western population. However, studies conducted so far in some African countries reported significant differences in normal laboratory ranges compared with those of the industrialized world. The aim of this study was to determine refe...

In West Africa, consumers pay a major attention on the coat colour of the sheep due to religious and cultural reasons. White coated individuals reach selling prices up to three-fold higher than black coated sheep. The aim of this study was to ascertain the genotypic and allelic frequencies of MC1R and ASIP genes in order to assess possible implementation of breeding programmes focusing on the i...