Improving tomatoes quality in the Sahel through organic cultivation under photovoltaic greenhouse as a climate change adaptation and mitigation strategy.

Climate change negative impacts on food production systems have forced large scale food producers to make available less healthy products. Although available on the markets, tomatoes are no more tasting as they used to be and providing fewer nutrients compared to then. This study investigates and compares the quality and yield of organic tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) produced in an insect net covered photovoltaic greenhouse against ambient production.

Improving the sustainability and effectiveness of photovoltaic evaporative cooling greenhouse in the Sahel.

Anthropogenic climate change has caused worldwide extreme weather events including droughts, floods and heatwaves. It disproportionately affects developing countries through food insecurity. Greenhouse is important and relevant to the food-energy-water security in many regions.

Clinical Outreach Training and Supportive Supervision Quality-of-Care Analysis: Impact of Readiness Factors on Health Worker Competencies in Malaria Case Management in Cameroon, Mali, and Niger.

Improving the quality of malaria clinical case management in health facilities is key to improving health outcomes in patients. The U.S.

[Geophagy associated with severe anemia in non-pregnant women: A case series of 12 patients].

Introduction: Geophagy or soil eating is mostly described in pregnant women from Sub-Saharan Africa, South America. Here, we report 12 cases of geophagy associated with severe anemia in non-pregnant Nigerian women.

Results/case Reports: The median age at diagnosis was 34.

[Focusing of Schistosoma haematobium transmission in irrigated perimeters of the Niger valley (Niger): importance of malacological factors].

Background: Currently, the control of urinary schistosomiasis is mostly based on mass treatment. Characterization of Schistosoma haematobium transmission could lead to adding new methods to the control strategy.

Methods: We carried out malacological and cercariometrical surveys in irrigated perimeters of the Niger River valley.

Bulinus forskalii: a new potential intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium in Niger.

Malacological monitoring of two irrigated areas in Niger highlighted the natural susceptibility of Bulinus forskalii to infection with Schistosoma haematobium when the parasitic load is high. This first report of S. haematobium infection in B.

ELISA study of oocyst-sporozoite transition in malaria vectors.

Intrinsic vector characteristics and environmental factors affect the sporogonic development of P. falciparum in Anopheles mosquitoes. We tested for the presence of the circumsporozoite protein, as a marker of the oocyst to sporozoite transition in naturally infected Anopheles gambiae s.

Emergence of Schistosoma mansoni in the Niger River valley, Niger.

Urinary and intestinal schistosomiasis are both endemic in Niger with a dominance of Schistosoma haematobium. This study pointed out the appearance of the infection to S. mansoni in the Niger River valley, where it was until then unknown in Niger.

[Heterogeneity of Schistosoma haematobium transmission in irrigated fields].

Heterogeneity of Schistosoma haematobium transmission in irrigated fields. Although irrigated areas exist since a long time in the Niger Valley the distribution of the urinary schistosomiasis does not appear homogeneous, testifying to the existence of limiting or favourable factors. The identification of these factors could lead to a better definition of the distribution of the schistosomiasis risks and to optimise control programmes.

[Transmission of Schistosoma haematobium in the town of Niamey, Niger].

Located in an area where Schistosoma haematobium is hyperendemic, the town of Niamey is a focus of hypoendemicity. The aim of the malacological follow-up studies undertaken over a one year period was the determination of the mollusc species present in the water bodies, the appreciation of their space-time distribution of the snail and to find out the potential seasons of transmission. The investigation applied to 22 sites of transmission in the urban community.