[Implementation of palliative care in Ivory Coast].

Ivory Coast adhered to the strategy of the primary cares of health whose leading principles served basis to the definition of the National politics of sanitary development, exposed in the National plan of sanitary development 1996-2005. The improvement of the quality of the cares is the main objective of this plan. The attack of this objective cannot make itself without the hold in account of the palliative cares that are a component of the cares for the patients affected by chronic and incurable affections, since the diagnosis until the death and even after the death.

Burkitt lymphoma in the Côte D'Ivoire from 1966 to 1995: a progress report.

Background And Procedure: Eighteen years of experience with Burkitt lymphoma (BL), the most common form of childhood cancer in the Ivory Coast, has been reviewed and the epidemiology analyzed.

Results: BL is more commonly found in wooded areas than savannahs by a factor of 5:1. Despite good responses to cyclophosphamide-based chemotherapy, chances for survival are often dictated by socioeconomic factors that limit optimal care.