Integrating early stimulation and play at scale: study protocol for "MAHAY Mikolo", a multi-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Background: Hundreds of millions of children living in poverty worldwide are not reaching their full, developmental potential. Programs to promote nurturing and responsive caregiving, such as those in which community health workers (CHWs) conduct home visits to support optimal early childhood development (ECD), have been effective in small trials, but have not achieved similar success at scale. This study will explore two approaches to scale-up: converting a home-visiting model to a group-based model; and integrating the ECD curriculum into an existing government program.

[Acute kidney injury and severe malaria in adults: A monocentric descriptive study in Madagascar using KDIGO criteria].

Introduction: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is one of the criteria for severe malaria with a varied incidence. Our objectives are to determine the prevalence of malaria-associated AKI and to report the characteristics of patients with the evolution of cases.

Patients And Method: This is a 5-year retrospective descriptive study from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2019 in the Infectious Diseases department of the University Hospital Center of Befelatanana Antananarivo.

[Neonatal prognosis for pulsating umbilical cord prolapse at the Befelatanana hospital of Madagascar].

Unlabelled: Umbilical cord prolapse is an obstetrical emergency that is life-threatening for the fetus. This retrospective cross-sectional study examined cases of pulsating umbilical cord prolapses at our level-3 maternity unit over the past three years and sought to assess their prognosis. Cord prolapse occurred in 0.

[Impact of excessive weight gain during pregnancy on maternal and fetal outcome at the Yaoundé Women's and Children's Hospital (Cameroon)].

Unlabelled: Excessive weight gain (EWG) during pregnancy can cause maternal and fetal complications. It has not yet been studied in our social environment, however.

Objectives: Our study aimed to describe maternal and fetal outcome in women gaining excessive weight during pregnancy in Cameroon.

CHEMO-hydrodynamic coupling between forced advection in porous media and self-sustained chemical waves.

Autocatalytic reaction fronts between two reacting species in the absence of fluid flow, propagate as solitary waves. The coupling between autocatalytic reaction front and forced simple hydrodynamic flows leads to stationary fronts whose velocity and shape depend on the underlying flow field. We address the issue of the chemico-hydrodynamic coupling between forced advection in porous media and self-sustained chemical waves.