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Geographical Locations - Senegal
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- Antimalarial Drug Quality in Senegal
"Malaria continues to be a major health concern in the country of Senegal, exacerbated by the free flow of poor quality antimalarial drugs and increasing parasite resistance to traditional first line drug treatment. For this reason, and in the frame of the support that USAID gives to the National Program of Senegal for the fight against Malaria, the surveillance of the parasite resistance to the used antimalarials and their quality is a major component… For this study, USP DQI analyzed samples of amodiaquine, chloroquine, and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine tablets collected from the public sector health system, private sector licensed pharmacies, and the informal market in different regions of Senegal. The drugs had been manufactured by various companies, local and imported, and were tested according to the standards of the U.S. Pharmacopeia and the British Pharmacopeia… Although all the drugs tested contained the active ingredient indicated on the label, the amount of that ingredient varied by sample. Chloroquine tablets contained more than the claimed amount in 35% of the tested samples. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) tablets contained less than the claimed amount in 55% of the samples. All of the amodiaquine samples passed the monograph tests; however, there was a problem with the availability of this drug." [USP Drug Quality and Information (USP DQI) Program, United States Pharmacopeia, 2002]
- Child Malnutrition in Senegal: Does access to public infrastructure really matter? A Quantile Regression Analysis
In this paper we analyse the effect of access to public infrastructure, i.e. safe water and health facilities, on child nutritional status defined by height-for-age z-scores in Senegal. Quantile regression methods are used to achieve a more complete picture of the infrastructure effect. This technique has an advantage over the traditional ordinary least squares method as it does not assume a constant effect of the explanatory variables over the entire distribution of the dependent variable. To deal with the potential endogeneity of household expenditures in a child health production function, we use instrumental variables methods. To the best of our knowledge, this paper provides the first empirical analysis of the impact of public infrastructure on child health using an instrumental variables quantile regression approach. Contrary to OLS estimates, we find that access to safe water improves the height-for-age of the lowest (10th) quantile and the effect of health facilities is significant for the 10th, 25th, 50th percentiles at the national level. However, in rural areas, only health facilities have a positive and significant effect on child health. The heterogeneity of this effect is shown using quantile regression, and we find that the effect of health facilities is more important to the lowest quantile and is decreasing. Safe water also improves child health up to the 10th percentile. [author abstract] [Paper presented at the African Economic Conference 2007, 15-17 November 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA))]
- Civil Society Perspectives on HIV/AIDS Policy in Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam: overview
"National governments and international agencies attempting to address HIV/AIDS continue to exclude or ignore marginalized groups that are disproportionately affected by the epidemic. In countries ranging from the United States, with some of the world’s best medicine and health care technology, to Senegal, where more than 50 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, marginalized groups — injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, prisoners, and ethnic minorities — are frequently excluded from the design, implementation, and evaluation of national HIV/AIDS policies and programs. The Open Society Institute’s Public Health Watch HIV/AIDS Monitoring Project has documented the varying degrees and different forms that stigma and discrimination against marginalized groups can take in five developed and developing countries: Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam. The results of this research, which are highlighted in this overview and available in five separate country reports, have made it clear that national governments and international agencies must collaborate more effectively with these groups in order to hear their concerns and address their needs." [Public Health Watch, Open Society Institute, 2007]
- Consumption of Industrially-Produced Chickens in Senegal and Risks to Public Health
Senegal has been taking part in the worldwide industrial poultry boom, in response to growing demand for animal protein by the urban population in and around the capital city, Dakar. A rise in productivity over the past decade has made this chicken the cheapest meat available. However, the expansion has occurred without any systematic control of hygienic practices along the supply chain, and research by the authors shows that up to 9 % of the chickens sold have unacceptably high levels of contaminants, particularly Salmonella. The health risks to consumers are compounded by preparation methods in the expanding restaurant and fast-food sector, where hygiene practices are wanting and where the cooking temperatures are too low to kill the harmful germs. Resolving these health problems is an important issue for public health in Senegal. It is also a challenge that the industry must meet in order to remain competitive in the context of the new free trade area being established in West Africa. For this, health authorities need to focus not only on improving controls, but also on education and outreach programs for the professionals in the chain, to encourage adoption of improved practices. There is also a role for educating consumers on safe cooking and hygiene practices in the urban environment. [author abstract] [E. Hanak, E. Boutrif, P. Fabre, M. Pineiro, (Scientific Editors), 2002. Food Safety Management in Developing Countries. Proceedings of the International Workshop, CIRAD-FAO, 11-13 December 2000, Montpellier, France, CIRAD-FAO. CIRAD CD-ROM, Montpellier, France.]
- Corruption and Good Governance in the Senegalese Health Care System
- Low awareness of intestinal schistosomiasis in northern Senegal after 7 years of health education as part of intense control and research activities
We evaluated the awareness of and knowledge about intestinal schistosomiasis in a highly infected rural community of northern Senegal where a variety of health information and education activities had taken place for 7 years as a component of different research and control programmes. As the infection had been introduced only recently, an initial ‘zero’ knowledge can be assumed. Most of the health education activities had been performed with adapted messages through local health and community workers. By a questionnaire, 566 individuals were asked simple questions on symptoms, mode of transmission, the sources of information and health-seeking behaviour. About 86% of the respondents stated that they knew what schistosomiasis was, and 92% that in case of illness they would seek treatment at the health centre. However, only half of the people accurately quoted symptoms associated with intestinal schistosomiasis: diarrhoea, abdominal pain and bloody stools. The majority of respondents realized that the disease was somehow linked with water and (lack of) hygiene, but only 44% of respondents reported water contact as the source of infection. Ultimately, only 30% of the respondents gave adequate answers about both symptoms and mode of transmission. We conclude that even intense and long-lasting education efforts for a specific and straightforward problem as schistosomiasis are not enough to have profound impact on the knowledge of rural traditional communities. [author abstract] [Tropical Medicine and International Health, Volume 8, No 8, pp 744–749, August 2003]
- Mainstreaming Adolescent Reproductive Health in Senegal: Enhancing Utilization of the Findings from the Youth Reproductive Health Project
"The project [to address the reproductive health (RH) needs of adolescents] was implemented in urban areas of Saint-Louis and Louga, in northwestern Senegal, and was called Improving the Reproductive Health of Youth in Senegal. The project supported a public sector, multisector intervention in communities, health facilities, and schools to enhance young people’s knowledge and behavior regarding reproductive health and HIV prevention, and systematically tested its feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness and costs. The study was implemented collaboratively by several organizations working at both the local and national levels… Overall the interventions had a significant positive impact on young people’s awareness and understanding of reproductive health issues, and (among sexually active youth) increased abstinence, and reduced incidence of multiple sexual partners. The pilot project showed that a multisectoral partnership with government agencies and involving interventions in communities, schools, and public health clinics could have significant positive results." [Population Council, Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program, February 2007]
- Preliminary findings: Problems and further improvement of maternal care in Senegal
The objectives of this study are "to clarify the current situation and problems in maternity care for normal labor and delivery at public health care facilities, and to identify potential areas for improvement." [JMAJ 51(2): 128–130, 2008]
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