[HIV infection in truck drivers in Burkina Faso: a seroprevalence survey].

Truck drivers are a well recognized high risk population for sexually transmitted diseases. Prior to start-up of a health care program and an information/education campaign, a cross-sectional study using the unlinked, anonymous screening method was carried out to assess seroprevalence of HIV and syphilis infections in truck drivers in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. During the month of November 1994, 236 truck drivers were recruited at a cotton-producing factory.

[Iterative placental infection by P. falciparum during 2 successive pregnancies in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina-Faso)].

A young woman living in a malaria endemic area in West Africa, was contaminated twice with placental infection by Plasmodium falciparum, in two successive pregnancies. No parasites were observed on blood smears both in mother peripheral blood and in cord blood. A parasitemia was described in the intervillous space in the placental.