[Prevalence of mental disorders in the general population of Burkina Faso].

Objectives: To determine, with the use of the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), the prevalence of mental disorders in the general population of Burkina Faso; To identify the factors associated with the occurrence of these disorders.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical survey of a representative sample of the general population aged 18 years and over (n=2587). The only non-inclusion criterion was absence from the place of residence during the investigation period for whatever reason.

[Factors associated with depressive symptoms in chronic hemodialysis patients of centre hospitalier universitaire Yalgado Ouédraogo (Burkina Faso)].

Objective: To determine the factors associated with depressive symptoms in chronic hemodialysis patients at centre hospitalier universitaire Yalgado Ouédraogo de Ouagadougou (CHU-YO).

Patients And Methods: The study was cross sectional and descriptive, from June 2nd to July 30th, 2014. We included chronic hemodialysis patients of CHU-YO.

[Epidemiological situation of yellow fever in Burkina Faso from 2003 to 2008].

Despite the existence of antiamaril vaccine in the routine Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) in Burkina Faso, yellow fever cases still occur in the country. In collaboration with WHO, the national health authorities set up a surveillance system through the national reference laboratory in Centre Muraz (Bobo-Dioulasso). All samples of feverish icterus cases of the 63 health districts of the country were analysed in this lab for M Immunoglobulin using Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa).

[Traditional concept of madness and therapeutic difficulties in the Moose of Kadiogo.].

The practice of psychiatry in the south of the Sahara in Africa collides with many problems of acceptability of care for the ill and their families. The frequent rejection of the psychiatrist's therapeutic approach can often be explained by the inadaptation of the etiopathogenic approach. Indeed, in black Africa, responsibility of illness differs according to the fact that one has been schooled or not.

[Hysteria in children: Briquet's syndrome (a case report)].

In this case report, the authors studied the difficulties to set up the diagnosis of hysteria in the Briquet's Syndrome. The description presented here is about an eleven years old girl patient without any particular family background and who, after her tonsils have been out against her will, presented a hysteria in the form of Briquet's Syndrome. All the explorations showed no abnormalities.

[Clinical aspects of adult schizophrenia in the psychiatric service at the Yalgado Ouedraogo National Hospital Center of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)].

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disease severe and disabling, which affects young adults. It is a frequent disease which, due to its disabling nature concerns as well the society, the family as the individual. We have gone throughout the files of 61 inpatients in the psychiatric department of the National Hospital Centre Yalgado Ouedraogo of Ouagadougou, using the diagnosis of schizophrenia according the criteria of the World Health Organization.