Evaluation of the implementation of hospital hygiene components in 30 health-care facilities in the autonomous district of Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire) with the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework (IPCAF).

Introduction: As part of the implementation of its mission "to integrate hygiene activities into healthcare", the general directorate of health conducted in 2018 with its technical structures, an evaluation of the implementation of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) using the WHO IPCAF tool in 30 health-care facilities in the autonomous district of Abidjan.

Materials And Methods: This were a cross-sectional survey with a conceptualized component considering the issue of injection safety and sanitary waste management, which was conducted in the named health-care facilities from March 20 to 28, 2018. The scores of the essential components of the IPC made it possible to assess the IPC level of each health-care facility evaluated and the overall IPCAF score of all facilities.

Factors associated with the use of maternal health services by mothers in a post-conflict area of western Côte d'Ivoire in 2016.

Background: In Côte d'Ivoire, maternal health service utilization indicators remain low despite improvements in health coverage and the availability of free health care for pregnant women. The objective of the study was to identify the determinants associated with the use of maternal health services in the department of Bloléquin, in western Côte d'Ivoire.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study with an analytical focus.

HPV seminal shedding among men seeking fertility evaluation in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Background: Little is known about the semen shedding of human papillomaviruses (HPV) in African men.

Objectives: To detect and identify HPV types in semen samples from men seeking fertility evaluation in Abidjan, Ivory Cost.

Study Design: Sixty-three semen samples were tested by PCR using consensus primers and HPV types were determined by PCR product sequencing or by line probe assay (LiPA) when sequencing was inconclusive.

[Intestinal helminthiasis among school children: preliminary results of a prospective study in Agboville in Southern Côte d'Ivoire].

Intestinal helminthiasis affects the health and academic performance of children in developing countries. To highlight a few socio-economic factors that impact the presence and upholding of intestinal helminthiasis, a cohort study was performed from February to June 2001. This study took place in Agboville in Southern Côte d'Ivoire on 363 children, under the age of 15, regularly enrolled in school and selected by two-step clustered sampling.