Factors associated with traction alopecia in women living in Yaoundé (Cameroon).

Background: Traction alopecia (TA) is very common in Africa but few studies on African population are available. We sought to determine factors associated with TA and measure the association between these factors and TA.

Methods: We carried out an analytical cross-sectional study in 29 hairdressing saloons in the city of Yaoundé.

Predictors of stroke favorable functional outcome in Guinea, results from the Conakry stroke registry.

Low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) now bear most of the stroke burden. In LMICs, stroke epidemiology and health care systems are different from HICs. Therefore, a high-income country (HIC)-based predictive model may not correspond to the LMIC stroke context.

Public health emergency management capacity building in Guinea: 2014-2019.

Before the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak of 2014-2016, Guinea did not have an emergency management system in place. During the outbreak, Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) 2014-2019 funds made it possible to rapidly improve the country's capacity to manage epidemics through the development of public health emergency operation centres (PHEOCs) at the national and district levels. Since the end of the response, the infrastructure, staff, and systems of these PHEOCs have been further reinforced and well-integrated in the daily activities of Guinea's National Agency for Health Security, the entity responsible for the management of epidemics.

[Medical certificates for intentional wounds and blows in medico-legal practice in Dakar].

Drawing up the medical certificate is a crucial step in the judicial process. This judicial document should be drafted during a medical legal consultation. This study aims to evaluate the quality of medical certificates in a medico-judicial consultation and to study interpretative criteria of medical certificate validity.

[Causes of death in Dakar and health policy].

The study of mortality enables to identify the major public health problems in the countries under consideration. It can give an indication on the preventive and "medico-curative" measures as well as on the investments in research that could increase life expectancy of the population. This study aims to evaluate the causes of death in the general population based on the informations contained in the register of deaths in Dakar.

Breast Milk Lipidome Is Associated with Early Growth Trajectory in Preterm Infants.

Human milk is recommended for feeding preterm infants. The current pilot study aims to determine whether breast-milk lipidome had any impact on the early growth-pattern of preterm infants fed their own mother's milk. A prospective-monocentric-observational birth-cohort was established, enrolling 138 preterm infants, who received their own mother's breast-milk throughout hospital stay.

Assessing the outcomes of HIV-infected persons receiving treatment for Kaposi sarcoma in Conakry-Guinea.

Background: Médecins Sans Frontières is supporting comprehensive HIV care and treatment for Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) in Guinea, where antiretroviral coverage is low and access to KS treatment is very limited. We aimed to evaluate treatment response and survival outcomes of epidemic KS in this setting.

Methods: Retrospective survival analysis of routinely collected clinical data of HIV-infected patients with clinically diagnosed KS, receiving ART and chemotherapy consisting of a combination of bleomycin and vincristine at the Donka National Hospital in Conakry between 2012 and 2015.

[Epidemiological, clinical and judicial aspects of sexual assault in Bamako (Mali)].

Background: Sexual assault rates are underestimated in Mali. This study was designed to assess the epidemiological, clinical and judicial aspects of sexual assault.

Patients And Method: A retrospective study was conducted from 1st July 2007 to 30 April 2010 in the health care centre of the 4th Commune of Bamako.

Autopsy following death by homicide in 644 cases.

The objectives of this study are to determine the cause of death and based on the wounds, to analyze the different epidemiological variables on homicide in Dakar. Included were all homicides cases where an autopsy was performed and these results recorded in the autopsy register. The data collected in our work included, identity, sex, age, place of crime (location), the cause of death (the causative agent and the anatomical region injured) and the mechanism of death (the pathophysiological phenomenon causing death).