[Health care microinsurance in Katako-Kombe, DRC: constraints and challenges].

Context: The WHO estimates that 100 million people are pushed into poverty by direct payments for medical services. This work explored the constraints and challenges for setting up health microinsurance in a developing country, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Methods And Materials: This is a cross-sectional, analytical, quantitative, and household survey based on two-stage cluster sampling.

Obesity and diabetes mellitus association in rural community of Katana, South Kivu, in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: Bukavu Observ Cohort Study Results.

Background: Factual data exploring the relationship between obesity and diabetes mellitus prevalence from rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa remain scattered and are unreliable. To address this scarceness, this work reports population study data describing the relationship between the obesity and the diabetes mellitus in the general population of the rural area of Katana (South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Methods: A cohort of three thousand, nine hundred, and sixty-two (3962) adults (>15 years old) were followed between 2012 and 2015 (or 4105 person-years during the observation period), and data were collected using the locally adjusted World Health Organization's (WHO) STEPwise approach to Surveillance (STEPS) methodology.