Epilepsy and stigma in Africa: Viewpoint of healthcare professionals and combat strategies.

Unlabelled: Epilepsy is a major public health problem in developing countries where eighty percent (80%) of people with epilepsy (PWE) live. Stigma has psychological consequences as well as serious repercussions on patients' quality of life. This study assesses the perception of health professionals in Africa regarding the stigmatization of PWE.

Clinical management and disease-modifying treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in African hospital centers: the TROPALS study.

To assess the availability of health workers and medications for clinical management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in African hospital centers. Availability and affordability analyses of disease-modifying treatments were performed. : A multicenter observational study involving African hospitals was conducted.

[Intracranial tuberculomas in Nouakchott, Mauritania].

Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in developing countries. Cerebral tuberculomas is a tuberculous granulation tissue mass restrained and limited by immune defenses of the host. This study aims to describe the characteristics and the evolutionary profile of intracranial tuberculomas in Mauritania.

Clinical features and prognosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Africa: the TROPALS study.

Objective: We describe and compare the sociodemographic and clinical features, treatments, and prognoses and survival times of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Africa.

Methodology: We conducted a multicentre, hospital-based cohort study in Africa. Patients with ALS diagnosed in the neurology departments of participating hospitals from 2005 to 2017 were included.

Juvenile and adult-onset ALS/MND among Africans: incidence, phenotype, survival: a review.

Aim: We reviewed the epidemiology of ALS among subjects of African origin, considering incidence, phenotype and prognosis.

Methods: We searched Medline, Scopus, Science direct, Bibliothèque Virtuelle de Neurologie Africaine (BVNA), ( http://www-ient.unilim.

Investigating epilepsy in Africa: 10 years of data collection using a standardized questionnaire in 2,269 peoples with epilepsy.

Purpose: The need for comparable epidemiologic data on epilepsy from various locations in tropical areas has led in 1994 to the creation of a questionnaire able to standardize information. The Limoges' questionnaire was created to collect information independently of the objectives of each survey performed, and since it has been employed in various continents under tropics latitude. In Africa between 1994 and 2004, 13 epidemiologic surveys in 12 countries were performed by this means.

Japanese encephalitis revisited.

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a major public health problem in Southeast Asia with around 50,000 cases and 10,000 deaths per year affecting essentially children below 10 years of age. The JE virus has shown a tendency to extend to other geographic regions. JE may cause severe encephalitis and survivors are frequently left with serious neurological lesions.