Survival and growth responses of Jatropha curcas L. to three restoration techniques on degraded soils in Burkina Faso by François Wenemi Kagambèga, Adjima Thiombiano, Salifou Traoré, Robert Zougmoré, Joseph Issaka Boussim

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Low prevalence of high blood pressure in pregnant women in Burkina Faso: a cross-sectional study by Franck Garanet, Sekou Samadoulougou, Adama Baguiya, Bruno Bonnechère, Tieba Millogo, Jean-Marie Degryse, Fati Kirakoya-Samadoulougou, Seni Kouanda

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Validity of household survey indicators to monitor food security in time and space: Burkina Faso case study by Hugo Deléglise, Yves Gérard Bazié, Agnès Bégué, Roberto Interdonato, Mathieu Roche, Maguelonne Teisseire, Elodie Maître d’Hôtel

“…The empirical case of Burkina Faso is used in this paper, where a large-scale rural household survey has been conducted yearly since 2009. …”
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Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali and Uganda: What Legal Response? by Odile Juliette Lim Tung

“…Research is being carried out on GMM in Burkina Faso, Mali and Uganda in collaboration with foreign companies. …”
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Extreme Rainfall in Southern Burkina Faso, West Africa: Trends and Links to Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature by Madou Sougué, Bruno Merz, Jean Mianikpo Sogbedji, François Zougmoré

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Congenital vitiligo: A case observed in the cohort of HIV-exposed infants in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso by Makoura Barro, Jean W. Diallo, Ad Bafa Ibrahim Ouattara, Boubacar Nacro

“…We are reporting a case of vitiligo at birth for the first time in Burkina Faso, in the Teaching Hospital Souro Sanou of Bobo-Dioulasso, Paediatric Department. …”
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Radioscopie des territoires en Afrique à travers l’arbre (Cameroun et Burkina Faso) by Jean-Louis Yengué

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Nutrient Profiles of Commercially Produced Complementary Foods Available in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal by Asha Khosravi, Eleonora Bassetti, Katelyn Yuen-Esco, Ndeye Yaga Sy, Rosenette Kane, Lara Sweet, Elizabeth Zehner, Alissa M. Pries

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Les impacts du climat sur le tourisme : Le site de Laongo (Burkina Faso) by Eugène Ido Babou

“…These include issues of travel, planning of activities, choice of destinations, development of tourist infrastructure and sites.The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of climatic parameters on the tourism sector in Laongo (Burkina Faso). The results of the study show that tourism is affected in the short and long term by climatic parameters.In the short term, it is tourist activities and frequentation of the site that are influenced. …”
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Older persons experiences of healthcare in rural Burkina Faso: Results of a cross sectional household survey. by Ellen M Goldberg, Mamadou Bountogo, Guy Harling, Till Baernighausen, Justine I Davies, Lisa R Hirschhorn

“…We performed a cross-sectional household survey including socio-demographic; morbidities; and patient-reported health system utilization, responsiveness, and quality outcomes in individuals 40 and older in northwestern Burkina Faso. We describe results and use exploratory factor analysis to derive a contextually appropriate grouping of health system responsiveness (HSR) variables. …”
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Older persons experiences of healthcare in rural Burkina Faso: Results of a cross sectional household survey by Ellen M. Goldberg, Mamadou Bountogo, Guy Harling, Till Baernighausen, Justine I. Davies, Lisa R. Hirschhorn

“…We performed a cross-sectional household survey including socio-demographic; morbidities; and patient-reported health system utilization, responsiveness, and quality outcomes in individuals 40 and older in northwestern Burkina Faso. We describe results and use exploratory factor analysis to derive a contextually appropriate grouping of health system responsiveness (HSR) variables. …”
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Anopheles bionomics, insecticide resistance and malaria transmission in southwest Burkina Faso: A pre-intervention study. by Dieudonné Diloma Soma, Barnabas Mahugnon Zogo, Anthony Somé, Bertin N'Cho Tchiekoi, Domonbabele François de Sales Hien, Hermann Sié Pooda, Sanata Coulibaly, Jacques Edounou Gnambani, Ali Ouari, Karine Mouline, Amal Dahounto, Georges Anicet Ouédraogo, Florence Fournet, Alphonsine Amanan Koffi, Cédric Pennetier, Nicolas Moiroux, Roch Kounbobr Dabiré

“…<h4>Background</h4>Twenty-seven villages were selected in southwest Burkina Faso to implement new vector control strategies in addition to long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) through a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). …”
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Seroprevalence and risk factors of Toxoplasma gondii infection in pregnant women from Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso by Sanata Bamba, Mamoudou Cissé, Ibrahim Sangaré, Adama Zida, Souleymane Ouattara, Robert T. Guiguemdé

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Hospital-based surveillance of severe paediatric malaria in two malaria transmission ecological zones of Burkina Faso by Alfred B. Tiono, Amadou T. Konaté, Désiré Kargougou, Amidou Diarra, Issa Nébié Ouedraogo, Amidou Ouedraogo, Franco Pagnoni, David Modiano, Sodiomon B. Sirima

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Bottlenecks for high coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy: the case of adolescent pregnancies in rural Burkina Faso. by Koen Peeters Grietens, Sabine Gies, Sheick Oumar Coulibaly, Clotilde Ky, Judith Somda, Elizabeth Toomer, Joan Muela Ribera, Umberto D'Alessandro

“…FINDINGS: In rural Burkina Faso, despite the significantly higher risk of malaria infection among adolescent primigravidae (PG) (OR 2.44 95%CI 1.81-3.28, p<0.001), making them primary target beneficiaries of IPTp-SP, adolescents adhered to the required three or more ANC visits significantly less (PG: 46.6%; SG 43.7%) than adults (PG: 61.9%; SG 54.9%) and had lower SP uptake during the malaria transmission season, further showing the difficulty of reaching this age group. …”
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LA PELLAGRE: ASPECTS EPIDEMIOLOGIQUES ET CLINIQUES DANS LA REGION OUEST DU BURKINA FASO by Fatou Barro/Traoré, Boukary Diallo, Patrice Tapsoba, Jean-Baptiste Andonaba, Moussa Kéré, Pascal Niamba, Adama Traoré

“…Conclusion: La pellagre est une affection fréquente chez les femmes dans l’Ouest du Burkina Faso où le maïs constitue la céréale de base dans l’alimentation des populations. …”
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WÉGOUBRI, the sahelian bocage: an integrate approach for environment preservation and social development in sahelian agriculture (Burkina Faso) by H. Girard

“…The NGO Terre Verte pursues the realisation of bocage perimeters (wégoubri in the mooré language) in Burkina Faso. They are an innovative concept of rural development that has been established in the 1990s in the experimental farm of Guiè and is now adopted in other experimental farms in Burkina Faso. …”
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Farmers' preferred tree species and their potential carbon stocks in southern Burkina Faso: Implications for biocarbon initiatives. by Kangbéni Dimobe, Jérôme Ebagnerin Tondoh, John C Weber, Jules Bayala, Korotimi Ouédraogo, Karen Greenough

“…To help fill this gap, the present study was undertaken in four pilot villages (Kou, Dao, Vrassan and Cassou) in Ziro Province, south-central Burkina Faso. The objective was to determine carbon storage potential for top-priority woody species preferred by local smallholders. …”
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Aboveground biomass allocation, additive biomass and carbon sequestration models for Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. in Burkina Faso by Moussa Ganamé, Philippe Bayen, Kangbéni Dimobe, Issaka Ouédraogo, Adjima Thiombiano

“…The developed allometric equations can be used to accurately estimate the aboveground biomass of P. erinaceus in the savannas of Burkina Faso and other similar ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa.…”
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Productivité intra-annuelle des parcours naturels dans la zone sahélienne du Burkina Faso by Lassina Sanou, Souleymane Ouédraogo, Jonas Koala, Jethro Delma, Adjima Thiombiano

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