Factors Associated with the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Primary Healthcare Workers Regarding Neglected Tropical Diseases with Skin Manifestations in the Dakar Region, Senegal, 2022.

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with skin manifestations present a significant health and societal problems challenge worldwide. This study aimed to analyzed factors associated with the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs) of primary healthcare workers (HCW) concerning NTDs with skin manifestations in the Dakar region of Senegal. We conducted a cross-sectional study utilizing a semi-structured questionnaire which was administered to eligible HCW (general practitioners, nurses and midwives) working at the 24 health centers located in the Dakar region.

Effects of Five Years of Treatment of Onchocerciasis with Ivermectin under Community Guidelines in Resurgent Areas of Burkina Faso: A before-and-after Analysis.

Background: Almost the entire country of Burkina Faso was endemic to onchocerciasis. Onchocerciasis control efforts thus brought the prevalence of to a level where the disease was no longer a public health problem in 2002. A resurgence of onchocerciasis cases has been observed in two regions (Cascades and the Southwest) located around several river basins in 2010-2011.

Effect of cost-reduction interventions on facility-based deliveries in Burkina Faso: a controlled interrupted time-series study with multiple non-equivalent dependent variables.

Background: Evaluating health intervention effectiveness in low-income countries involves many methodological challenges to be addressed. The objective of this study was to estimate the sustained effects of two interventions to improve financial access to facility-based deliveries.

Methods: In an innovative controlled interrupted time-series study with primary data, we used four non-equivalent dependent variables (antenatal care) as control outcomes to estimate the effects of a national subsidy for deliveries (January 2007-December 2013) and a local 'free delivery' intervention (June 2007-December 2010) on facility-based deliveries.

Yam Daabo interventions' effects on postpartum family planning use in Burkina Faso at 24 months after childbirth.

Introduction: After testing the interventions for improving the prevalence of contraceptive use, very few studies have measured the long-term effects thereafter the end of the implementation. This study aimed to measure Yam Daabo interventions' effects on contraceptive use in Burkina Faso at twelve months after completion of the intervention.

Methods: Yam Daabo was a two-group, multi-intervention, single-blind, cluster randomized controlled trial.

Effect of a prospective payment method for health facilities on direct medical expenditures in a low-resource setting: a paired pre-post study.

Almost all sub-Saharan countries have adopted cost-reduction policies to facilitate access to health care. However, several studies underline the reimbursement delays experienced by health facilities, which lead to deficient implementation of these policies. In April 2016, for its free care policy, Burkina Faso shifted from fee-for-service (FFS) paid retrospectively to FFS paid prospectively.

Assessment Of Maternity Staff Training And Knowledge Of Obstetric Care In Burkina Faso: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.

Background And Aim: The quality of maternity care in low-income countries has often been questioned. The objective of this study was to describe the trend of the percentage of staff trained on selected obstetric care topics and their level of knowledge of maternal care over a 5-year period in Burkina Faso.

Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from two national emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) needs assessments.

Out-of-pocket payments in the context of a free maternal health care policy in Burkina Faso: a national cross-sectional survey.

Background: In April 2016, Burkina Faso introduced a free health care policy for women. Instead of reimbursing health facilities, as many sub-Saharan countries do, the government paid them prospectively for covered services to avoid reimbursement delays, which are cited as a reason for the persistence of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments. This study aimed to (i) estimate the direct expenditures of deliveries and covered obstetric care, (ii) determine the OOP payments, and (iii) identify the patient and health facility characteristics associated with OOP payments.

Syphilis among Female Sex Workers: Results of Point-of-Care Screening during a Cross-Sectional Behavioral Survey in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

Background: Syphilis among female sex workers (FSW) remains a public health concern due to its potential impact on their health and the possibility of transmission to their clients, partners, and children. Recent data on the prevalence of syphilis in the population in West Africa are scarce. The objective of this study was to measure the seroprevalence of syphilis serological markers among female sex workers in Burkina Faso.

Impact of fee subsidy policy on perinatal health in a low-resource setting: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: A national subsidy policy was introduced in 2007 in Burkina Faso to improve financial accessibility to facility-based delivery. In this article, we estimated the effects of reducing user fees on institutional delivery and neonatal mortality, immediately and three years after the introduction of the policy.

Methods: The study was based on a quasi-experimental design.

Terrorist attack of 15 January 2016 in Ouagadougou: how resilient was Burkina Faso's health system?

In Africa, health systems are often not very responsive. Their resilience is often tested by health or geopolitical crises. The Ebola epidemic, for instance, exposed the fragility of health systems, and recent terrorist attacks have required countries to respond to urgent situations.

Factors associated with fresh stillbirths: A hospital-based, matched, case-control study in Burkina Faso.

Objective: To determine the risk factors for fresh stillbirths in hospitals in Burkina Faso.

Methods: A hospital-based, matched (1:1), case-control study was conducted from July to August 2014 in 50 hospitals across the country. All cases of stillbirth that occurred during this period in the participating facilities were included, and an appropriate control was selected for each case from the same health facility.

Factors associated with very early neonatal mortality in Burkina Faso: A matched case-control study.

Objective: To identify the risk factors associated with very early neonatal death in Burkina Faso.

Methods: A matched case-control study including newborns born between May 2009 and April 2010. Cases comprised newborns that died within 24hours of birth, whereas controls were those of a similar birth weight to the cases who survived the first 24hours.

Predictors of mortality of low birth weight newborns during the neonatal period: A cohort study in two health districts of Burkina Faso.

Objective: To determine the neonatal mortality rate among low birth weight infants, and identify the predictors of mortality during the neonatal period in two health districts in Burkina Faso.

Methods: A prospective cohort study of live born babies delivered in health centers that weighed less than 2500 g. Their survival status at the end of the neonatal period was measured and analyzed using multivariate analysis in a Cox proportional hazards model.

Indicators of availability, use, and quality of emergency obstetric and neonatal care in Togo in 2012.

Objective: To assess the availability, utilization, and quality of emergency obstetric and neonatal care (EmONC) in Togo.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of EmONC services in all public and private health facilities in the territory of Togo conducted from July to December, 2012. The generic tools developed by the Averting Maternal Death and Disability program were used as the basic tools for this evaluation.

Rate of and factors associated with indications for cesarean deliveries: Results of a national review in Burkina Faso.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of cesarean deliveries in Burkina Faso, analyze the indications for them and the outcomes, and identify factors associated with non-absolute maternal indications for the procedure, as opposed to major obstetric interventions performed to save a woman's life.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study, we selected and analyzed cesarean deliveries among those most recently performed between May 2009 and April 2010 in all facilities in Burkina Faso. To identify the factors associated with non-absolute maternal indications, we used generalized estimating equations to take into account the clustering of data at the hospital level.

Home births in the context of free health care: The case of Kaya health district in Burkina Faso.

Objective: To identify the factors associated with home births in the Kaya health district in Burkina Faso, where child delivery was free of charge between 2007 and 2011.

Methods: Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from the Kaya Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Kaya HDSS) among women who delivered at home or in a health facility between January 2008 and December 2010. Multilevel logistic regression was applied to quantitative data, while the qualitative data were analyzed thematically based on emerging themes, subthemes, and patterns across group and individual cases.

Availability and utilization of obstetric and newborn care in Guinea: A national needs assessment.

Objective: To assess the availability and utilization of emergency obstetric and neonatal care (EmONC) in Guinea given the high maternal and neonatal mortality rates.

Methods: We used the Guinea 2012 needs assessment data collected via a national cross-sectional census of health facilities conducted from September to October 2012. All public, private, and faith-based health facilities that performed at least one delivery during the period of the study were included.

Presence of three dengue serotypes in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): research and public health implications.

Background: The significant malaria burden in Africa has often eclipsed other febrile illnesses. Burkina Faso's first dengue epidemic occurred in 1925 and the most recent in 2013. Yet there is still very little known about dengue prevalence, its vector proliferation, and its poverty and equity impacts.