Crude childhood vaccination coverage in West Africa: Trends and predictors of completeness [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] by Jacob S. Kazungu, Ifedayo M.O. Adetifa

“…Methods: We utilized datasets from the Demographic and Health Surveys Program, available for Benin, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, to obtain coverage for Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, polio, measles, and diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) vaccines in children aged 12 – 23 months. …”
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Determination of Methylene Blue and Its Metabolite Residues in Aquatic Products by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry by Xuan Zhang, Yunhua Hui, Changling Fang, Yuan Wang, Feng Han, Xiaoyi Lou, Essy Kouadio Fodjo, Youqiong Cai, Cong Kong

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Pratiques érémitiques et quête métaphysique au cœur du mythe sociogonique des poètes maudits by Koué Kévin BOUMY

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Toward political economy of sustainable financing for immunization in the World Health Organization African Region through a systems thinking lens by Abdu A Adamu, Téné-Alima Essoh, Rabiu I Jalo, Charles S Wiysonge

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Mobile microbiological laboratory support for evaluation of a meningitis epidemic in Northern Benin. by Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Stéphane Hugonnet, Honoré Djogbe, Agbenoko Kodjo, Adèle Kacou N'douba, Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Philippe Stoeckel, Bradford D Gessner

“…A fixed site in Northern Togo, Pasteur Institutes in Côte d'Ivoire and France, and a research laboratory in Burkina Faso provided additional laboratory support. …”
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Anthropometric and immunological success of antiretroviral therapy and prediction of virological success in west African adults by Eugène Messou, Delphine Gabillard, Raoul Moh, André Inwoley, Souleymane Sorho, Serge Eholié, François Rouet, Catherine Seyler, Christine Danel, Xavier Anglaret

“…METHODS: In a cohort of 622 adults in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, we calculated the sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of BMI and CD4 for treatment success defined as viral-load undetectability (< 300 copies/ml) as gold standard. …”
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Vécu des actions de prévention de la bilharziose urinaire à Kossou et Suibiakro by Affoué Nadège KOFFI, Zié Adama OUATTARA, Grégoire YAPI YAPI & N’Doumy Noël ABE

“…Mots-clés : Vécu, Actions, Prévention, Bilharziose urinaire, Côte d’Ivoire…”
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Les adjectifs de couleur dans quelques langues gur : une analyse morphologique et sémantique by Kouakou Appoh Enoc KRA, Sansan Blaise KAMBIRE & Pascale Gwladys KOUALA

“…Résumé : Cet article porte sur les adjectifs de couleurs dans trois langues Gur de Côte d’Ivoire à savoir, le koulango, le lobiri et le tagbana. …”
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The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism by Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene, Echezona Ejike Udokanma, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi, Chinonso Emmanuel Okorie, Zacharia Kafuko, Hawa Marguerite Conde, Cynthia Waliaula, Sheila Mburu

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La geste de Ségou : une didactique de l’initiation et de l’esthétique littéraire by FANNY Yacouba

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Evolutionary Insight into the Association between New Jersey Polyomavirus and Humans by Aref-Abdolllah Aghebatrafat, Chris Lauber, Kevin Merkel, Barbara Fruth, Kevin Langergraber, Martha M. Robbins, Roman M. Wittig, Fabian H. Leendertz, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer

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Impact of integration time steps of rain drop size distribution on their double-moment normalization: a case study in northern Benin by Moumouni, Sounmaïla, Akponi, Fulgence Payot, Zahiri, Eric-Pascal, Lawin, Agnidé Emmanuel, Gosset, Marielle

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Comparison of gridded precipitation estimates for regional hydrological modeling in West and Central Africa by Christopher Kouakou, Jean-Emmanuel Paturel, Frédéric Satgé, Yves Tramblay, Dimitri Defrance, Nathalie Rouché

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Africa’s chronic power problems : West Africa power pool could be a game-changer by Mulangu, Francis

“…WAPP enjoys strong support from donors willing to build interconnectors. Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, and Senegal have newly discovered natural gas reserves. …”
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Africa Digest : Trends and issues in macro environment Vol. 11 by Burger, Johan

“…Other entities convert plastic waste into bricks to build schools (Cote d’Ivoire), and use it as an ingredient to build better, cheaper and longer-lasting roads (South Africa). 5. …”
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Bullets over ballots: How electoral exclusion increases the risk of coups d'état and civil wars by Klaas, B

“…</p> <p>I used mixed methods—combining insights from an original global dataset with extensive elite interviews conducted in five countries (Madagascar, Thailand, Tunisia, Zambia, and Côte d'Ivoire)—to establish that electoral exclusion is an attractive short-term election strategy for vulnerable incumbents that produces a much higher chance of victory but comes with high costs in the longer-term. …”

Rising under-5 mortality in Africa: who bears the brunt? by Houweling, T, Kunst, A, Moser, K, Mackenbach, J

“…For Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, we did not observe statistically significant differences between educational and rural/urban subgroups. …”

Breast cancer survival in sub-Saharan Africa by age, stage at diagnosis and Human Development Index (HDI): A population-based registry study by Joko Walburga Epse Fru, Y, Miranda-Filho, A, Soerjomataram, I, Parkin, D, McGale, P

“…We obtained data on a random sample of 2,588 breast cancer incident cases, diagnosed in 2008-2015 from 14 population-based cancer registries in 12 countries (Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe) through the African Cancer Registry Network. …”

Optimising the dosage of ready-to-use therapeutic food in children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a non-inferiority, randomis... by Cécile Cazes, Kevin Phelan, Victoire Hubert, Harouna Boubacar, Liévin Izie Bozama, Gilbert Tshibangu Sakubu, Bruno Bindamba Senge, Norbert Baya, Rodrigue Alitanou, Antoine Kouamé, Cyrille Yao, Delphine Gabillard, Maguy Daures, Augustin Augier, Xavier Anglaret, Moumouni Kinda, Susan Shepherd, Renaud Becquet

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Abiotic Reduction of Mercury(II) in the Presence of Sulfidic Mineral Suspensions by Mariame Coulibaly, Mariame Coulibaly, Nashaat M. Mazrui, Nashaat M. Mazrui, Sofi Jonsson, Sofi Jonsson, Robert P. Mason

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