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Scientific newssheets
Human and social sciences -
South Africa,
Angola,
Archipelago of the Canaries,
Benin,
Burkina Faso,
Cameroon,
Cape Verde,
Central Africa,
Congo,
Ivory Coast,
Gabon,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Equatorial Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Liberia,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Democratic republic of Congo,
Rwanda,
Sao Tomé and Principe,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
Chad,
Togo,
Botswana,
Burundi,
Comoros,
Djibouti,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Mauritius,
Kenya,
Reunion,
Lesotho,
Madagascar,
Malawi,
Mayotte,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Uganda,
Seychelles,
Somalia,
Sudan,
Swaziland,
Tanzania,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe
December 2007
The population of Sub-Saharan Africa is continuing to grow at twice the rate recorded in Latin America and Asia. This exceptional population growth is a major handicap for efforts to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Objectives (MDO) in most of the countries lying South of the Sahara. With ...
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Scientific newssheets
Health -
Congo,
Gabon
October 2007
Since its discovery 30 years ago, Ebolavirus has struck repeatedly in several epidemics breaking out mainly in Central Africa. Gorillas and chimpanzees are also victims of the violent haemorrhagic fever attacks the virus triggers. With the aim of understanding more of Ebola’s action mechanisms, ...
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Scientific newssheets
Health -
Kenya,
Cameroon
October 2007
World Health Organization (WHO) figures show that each year more than 1 million people die as a result of malaria. The idea of eradicating completely this ravaging disease is becoming increasingly illusive, nevertheless the control of Plasmodium falciparum populations is a promising research ...
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Scientific newssheets
Health -
South Africa,
Angola,
Congo,
Gabon,
Kenya,
Uganda,
Zimbabwe
August 2007
IRD researchers working along with the ‘Centre international de recherches médicales de Franceville (CIRMF)’ of Gabon and the ‘Centre for Disease Control (CDC)’ based in Atlanta recently identified a species of fruit bat as reservoir of Marburg virus.
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Scientific newssheets
Health,
Ocean, climate, impacts -
Togo,
Ivory Coast,
Ghana,
Benin,
Nigeria,
Bangladesh
July 2007
Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It is rife mainly in the tropical regions where it affects 100 000 people per year. Previous studies in Bangladesh and South America have shown the existence of a relation between climatic variations and the ...
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