Frequency and factors associated with focused antenatal care in Guinea: Analysis of the DHS 2018.

Background: In Guinea, despite women's recourse to antenatal care (ANC), little remains known about the use of focused antenatal care (FANC), contained in the ANC package.

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the frequency and factors associated with FANC, using data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2018.

Setting: This study was conducted in Guinea.

The monthly trends of malaria cases in children under 5 years of age in Guinea: comparative analysis between a seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) and a non-SMC health district.

Background: The Republic of Guinea, where malaria represents the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children, the seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is deployed only in areas with very seasonal modes of transmission. It should target children at the highest risk of serious illness. The objective of the study was to prevent uncomplicated and serious cases of malaria in the target population.

Health seeking behaviour associated with obstetric fistula care in Guinea: An analysis of the 2018 Demographic and Health survey.

This study aimed to analyze factors associated with obstetric fistula care-seeking behavior in Guinea, based on data from the 2018 Demographic and Health Survey. Women aged 15-49 years who reported having obstetric fistula constituted the study population, statistical analysis was using Stata 16.0 software.

Involving the health sector in the prevention and care of female genital mutilation: results from formative research in Guinea.

Background: Despite efforts to reduce the burden of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Guinea, the practice remains prevalent, and health care providers are increasingly being implicated in its medicalization. This formative study was conducted to understand the factors that facilitate or impede the health sector in providing FGM prevention and care services to inform the development of health sector-based interventions.

Methods: Between April and May 2018, a mixed methods formative study was carried out using a rapid assessment methodology in three regions of Guinea-Faranah, Labe and Conakry.

A natural antioxidant pine bark extract, Oligopin®, regulates the stress chaperone HSPB1 in human skeletal muscle cells: a proteomics approach.

The gradual loss of muscle mass affecting all the elderly (sarcopenia) is most likely due to a decreased number and/or function of satellite cells. Accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been clearly correlated to sarcopenia and could contribute to the impairment of satellite cell function. In this study, we analyzed the protective mechanism of action of a natural pine bark extract (Oligopin®) in human muscle satellite cells exposed to oxidative stress (H2O2).

[Characteristics of parent-adolescent communication about sexuality and HIV in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso].

Adolescent females are a key target audience in the fight against sexually transmitted infections and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. One issue is that families in Africa play a very limited role in sex education. The objective of this study was to examine parent-child communication from a qualitative perspective by exploring the characteristics and quality of parent-child communication.

Linking HIV prevention and care for community interventions among high-risk women in Burkina Faso--the ARNS 1222 "Yerelon" cohort.

Background: Interventions targeting core groups such as high-risk women in Africa have focused mostly on HIV prevention. In this marginalized group, the delegation of HIV care to public services may jeopardize the effectiveness of prevention activities. We assessed the effect of an intervention combining prevention and care among high-risk women on HIV exposure and treatment outcomes.

Visual vector inversion in the posterior parietal cortex.

In the antisaccade task, a saccade must be triggered towards the mirror location of a visual target. The neural basis required for this visual vector inversion remains unclear, although neuronal activities reflecting this process have been recorded in the monkey lateral intraparietal area. We examined a patient with a small, right-sided, posterior parietal stroke who complained of difficulty in manipulating visual information.