Guinea-Bissau
Livelihoods in Guinea Bissau
... Some, mainly men, have jobs in the formal sector, mostly as teachers or health workers. Other low-wage public sector employees include members of the military or police. A major- ity of these, however, aim to complement ...
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The drivers of energy access: evidence from solar energy applications in Guinea Bissau
... Chapter 4 explores how the technology of prepaid meters can help researchers acquire more insight on the accuracy of survey expenditure reporting and the response strategies used. More specifically, this chapter tests ...
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Evolution of Cocirculating Varicella-Zoster Virus Genotypes during a Chickenpox Outbreak in Guinea-Bissau
... 23 Guinea-Bissau viruses clustered within clade 5, and all Guinea-Bissau viruses were more closely related to each other than to other clade 5 viruses, although no single muta- tion ...
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The emergence and current performance of a health research system: lessons from Guinea Bissau
... Another factor that has made it more difficult to con- tribute with research to local decision making is the nat- ure of some of the key research findings from BHP. Since the beginning, their research findings have chal- ...
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Institutions, Social Networks, and Conflicts in Guinea Bissau: Results from a 2005 Survey
... and goodwill of senior, male “patron” autochthones—frequently, the Chefe de Tabanca— and normally can only occur by marrying into a local autochthonous family. The “client” outsider would be expected to return the favor ...
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Dietary intake in undernourished adults living in Guinea-Bissau; a cross-sectional study
... for Guinea-Bissau was available, and one was therefore compiled using primarily the West African Food Composition Table by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ...
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Malaria prevention reduces in hospital mortality among severely ill tuberculosis patients: a three step intervention in Bissau, Guinea Bissau
... Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal [7,18,24]. Guinea-Bissau has one of the highest incidences of TB in the world [1] and malaria is an important death determinant in the coun- try, since 45% of ...
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The training and professional expectations of medical students in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
... The purpose of this research is to describe and analyse the profile of medical students currently (2007) in the medical faculties of the Universities of Eduardo Mon- dlane (Mozambique), Agostinho Neto (Angola) and Raul ...
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Democratisation via elections in an African 'narco state'? The case of Guinea Bissau
... years Guinea-Bissau apparently became one of the hubs of cocaine trade in this ...in Bissau accused of being involved in trafficking 670 kg of cocaine, found at their ...at Bissau ...
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Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and the European Economic Community on fisheries off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. COM (79) 704 final, 28 November 1979
... The procedure for applications for, and issue ofr the annual licences enabling vessels flying the flags of Member States of the Community to fish in Guinea-Bissau's fishing zone shall be[r] ...
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Tuberculosis burden in an urban population: a cross sectional tuberculosis survey from Guinea Bissau
... The study was conducted at the Bandim Health Project (BHP), Bissau, Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, a Demo- graphic Surveillance Site. The BHP is a Danish-Guinean research station, with a study area ...
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First report of an exophilic Anopheles arabiensis population in Bissau City, Guinea Bissau: recent introduction or sampling bias?
... The finding of an An. arabiensis population in Antula, apparently displaying exophilic behaviour, has important implications for the epidemiology and control of malaria. Previous malaria control programmes, such as the ...
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Molecular epidemiology of endemic Human T-Lymphotropic virus type 1 in a rural community in Guinea-Bissau
... The study area, Caio, is a settlement of 10 small villages with 10,000 inhabitants in North-Western Guinea-Bissau and has been described in detail [16]. A rolling census has been performed in the area since ...
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Trends and determinants of mortality in women of reproductive age in rural Guinea-Bissau, West Africa – a cohort study
... in Guinea-Bissau consist of randomly selected clusters of villages in each region and there was no spe- cific adult intervention implemented in these villages suggesting that the sample may well be ...
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Awareness, attitudes and perceptions regarding HIV and PMTCT amongst pregnant women in Guinea-Bissau– a qualitative study
... in Bissau, counselling and testing was offered at the SMNH maternity ward, as many women presenting for delivery had not had prior antenatal care and/or HIV ...
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Prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance and other types of dysglycaemia among young twins and singletons in Guinea-Bissau
... Also, adverse exposures during fetal life could be mark- edly different in Africa. Thus, in our setting around 13 % of all children are born with LBW [26], with twins ac- counting for 20–23 % of those [42]. This ...
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HTLV 1 in rural Guinea Bissau: prevalence, incidence and a continued association with HIV between 1990 and 2007
... This is the largest community based study which has measured the prevalence and incidence of HTLV-1 and its associations with HIV. These data show a high HTLV- 1 prevalence of approximately 5% and a stable incidence of ...
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Paracetamol versus placebo in treatment of non severe malaria in children in Guinea Bissau: a randomized controlled trial
... The study was performed in the area of Bandim on the outskirts of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. Parents from Bandim attending the Bandim Health Centre with children weight- ing more than 7.5 kg and having ...
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Clonal Relatedness of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from a Cohort of Young Children in Guinea Bissau
... in Guinea-Bissau, it was previously found that some enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains were more pathogenic than others, depending on the type of toxin that they could produce, and that natural ...
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Costing the scaling-up of human resources for health: lessons from Mozambique and Guinea Bissau
... and Guinea Bissau, HRH costing had multiple objectives: (a) to contribute to extra- health agendas such as public sector salaries, subsidies and incentives policies; (b) to identify wage inequalities; (c) ...
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