Effect of health shocks on the absenteeism magnitude at work in Togo: is health insurance a mitigating factor?

Background: The occurrence of health shocks affects households economically in various ways. It most often leads to missed work, thus inducing a decrease in productivity and a loss of income. These effects are even more significant if the extent of absenteeism is high or if its duration is long.

Initiatory rites, sexual activity, and early pregnancies of adolescent girls in the savannah region of Togo: Views of canton chiefs, priests and initiates.

Teenage pregnancy and marriage are major concerns in many schools in Togo, due to the large number of cases recorded each year by the Ministry of Primary, Secondary, Technical Education, and Handicrafts. The aim of this article is to describe the rites associated with early pregnancy and the perceptions held by the populations of Gando in the Savannah region. The study was based on documentary research and interviews with several actors, including initiating priests, canton chiefs, and young initiates.

Health system productivity in sub-Saharan Africa: tuberculosis control in high burden countries.

Background: Sixteen of the 30 countries with a high tuberculosis (TB) burden are in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Over 25% of TB deaths occur in the Africa region. This study aims to estimate the productivity changes of TB programs in 16 SSA countries where TB is endemic.

Severe Acute Bacterial Infections in Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Togo.

Background: Bacterial infections are considered a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients, especially children, with sickle cell disease.

Objectives: This study aims at determining, a year after the introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine the distribution of severe acute bacterial infections and germs in children with sickle cell disease.

Patients And Methods: Records of children 0 to 15 years of age and admitted from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2019 (5 y), were examined retrospectively in the four sickle cell monitoring units in Lomé.

Antidiarrheal Activity of Willd Fruit Pulp in Wistar Rats.

Objective: This study is aimed at evaluating the effects of Willd fruit pulp powder on diarrhea induced by castor oil in Wistar rats.

Materials And Methods: Three different tests were carried out. A preventive test by administration of a single dose of 250, 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 mg/kg before the induction of diarrhea by castor oil.

Management of acute sickle cell priapism in an African (Togo) pediatric department includes conservative measures and intracavernous epinephrine which is safe and efficacious.

Priapism is a well-known urologic complication of sickle cell anemia. This study describes the results of a protocol for the treatment of acute priapism by intracavernous injection of epinephrine due to unavailability of etilefrine. A descriptive cross-sectional study of 18 cases of acute priapism in sickle cell patients treated in the pediatric department of the Sylvanus Olympio CHU from January 1 to December 31, 2020.

Comparative Study of Antimicrobial, Anti-Inflammatory, and Antioxidant Activities of Different Parts from l'Her. Ex. DC (Fabaceae).

Aims: is used in Beninese folk medicine for treatment of gastroenteritis. This study aims to compare the antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory activity of the hydroalcoholic extracts of the leaves, trunk bark, and root.

Materials And Methods: The antimicrobial activity was evaluated by the broth microdilution method on 06 bacterial strains including 03 wild-type strains ( 0157H, sp.

Factors influencing student's specialty choices in Lomé faculty of medicine (Togo).

Background: The choice of specialty in medicine is an important decision for the individual, but also for health system. This choice combined personals reasons, professional desires and needs of the health system. The number of specialists in the country depends of this choice.

Cytotoxicity, Acute, and Subacute Study of Hydroalcoholic Root Extract of L. on Wistar Rats.

L. (Apocynaceae) is used traditionally, in Africa, to treat many diseases such as malaria, sickle cell anemia, epilepsy, helminthoses, and sexual weakness. The aim of this study is to investigate the cytotoxicity on , the acute and subacute (28 days) oral toxicity of hydroalcoholic root extract on Wistar rats.

Socio-economic inequality in maternal health care utilization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Togo.

Introduction: Despite improvements in health care in Togo, the maternal mortality rate remains high, and regional antenatal care and facility-based deliveries are limited. The aim of this study is to measure socioe-conomic inequality in maternal health care (MHC) utilization during pregnancy and delivery.

Method: The data were obtained from the last two rounds of the 1998 and 2013 Togo Demographic and Health Survey.

Vulnerability of African Rosewood ( Fabaceae) natural stands to climate change and implications for silviculture in West Africa.

is a native tree species of the Guineo-Sudanian and Sudano-Sahelian zones where natural stands are under constant pressure and heavily exploited for timber, animal feeding and others uses. A part from the overexploitation, climate change could also become a serious threat to the species natural distribution. For that purposes, this study aims to assess the vulnerability of potential niche to climate change within its natural distribution area in West Africa.

Women's empowerment and fertility preferences in high fertility countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Background: Nearly all countries with fertility levels of more than five children per woman are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prestige, insurance in old age, and replacement in case of child deaths are related to preferences for large families. In this paper, we examine the association between women's empowerment and fertility preferences of married women aged 35 years and above in four high fertility Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa (FSSA) countries, namely Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad.

How do () leaves extract increase uterine smooth muscle contractions to facilitate child birth in parturient women?

Background: () leaves were used in Togolese folk to treat dystocia, expel placenta and manage post-partum hemorrhage during child birth.

Objectives: This study aimed to establish how the extract of leaves increase uterine smooth muscle contractions relevant to its traditional use to facilitate child birth.

Methods: Tests were performed on uterus muscle strips from Sprague-Dawley rats.

Extension of mandatory health insurance to informal sector workers in Togo.

Background: About 90.4% of Togolese workers operate in the informal sector and account for between 20 and 30% of Togo's Gross Domestic Product. Despite their importance in the Togolese economy, informal sector workers (ISW) do not have a health insurance scheme.

The impacts of migration on maternal and child health services utilisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Togo.

Objectives: Togo is experiencing a growing phenomenon of migration and consequently receives remittances from international migrants back to their relatives. Remittances represent about 9.4% of the gross domestic product (GDP), placing Togo in the top 10 recipients of remittances in the world in 2014.

Porous safety net: catastrophic health expenditure and its determinants among insured households in Togo.

Background: In Togo, about half of health care costs are paid at the point of service, which reduces access to health care and exposes households to catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). To address this situation, the Togolese government introduced a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2011. This insurance currently covers only employees and retirees of the State as well as their dependents, although plans for extension exist.

Evaluation of the effects of the powder of Capsicum frutescens on glycemia in growing rabbits.

Aim: The present study aims to evaluate zootechnic parameters and blood sugar in rabbits submitted to diets containing different levels of pepper (Capsicum frutescens).

Materials And Methods: To this end, 30 rabbits weighing on average 1252±35 g at the beginning of the experiment were subjected to five rations with three repetitions for 56 days: The food R0 (or control) which is floury provender contains 0% of C. frutescens; R5, R10, R15, and R20 provender containing, respectively, 0.