scholarly journals Decreasing child mortality, spatial clustering and decreasing disparity in North-Western Burkina Faso

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Becher ◽  
Olaf Müller ◽  
Peter Dambach ◽  
Sabine Gabrysch ◽  
Louis Niamba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Child Mortality ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
North Western ◽  
Western Burkina Faso

scholarly journals Efficacy of amodiaquine in the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in young children of rural north-western Burkina Faso

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germain Mandi ◽  
Frank P Mockenhaupt ◽  
Boubacar Coulibaly ◽  
Peter Meissner ◽  
Olaf Müller
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Falciparum Malaria ◽  
Uncomplicated Falciparum Malaria ◽  
North Western ◽  
Western Burkina Faso

Selection of pfmdr1 and pfcrt alleles in amodiaquine treatment failure in north-western Burkina Faso

Acta Tropica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Danquah ◽  
Boubacar Coulibaly ◽  
Peter Meissner ◽  
Inga Petruschke ◽  
Olaf Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Failure ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
North Western ◽  
Western Burkina Faso ◽  
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scholarly journals Community expectations and motivations in entomological research activities for the development of innovative malaria vector control tools: Target Malaria as a case study in Bana, Western Burkina Faso

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nourou Barry ◽  
Patrice Toé ◽  
Lea Pare/Toe ◽  
Javier Lezaun ◽  
Mouhamed Drabo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Mosquito Collection ◽  
Entomological Research ◽  
The Village ◽  
Western Burkina Faso

Abstract BackgroundMany field entomology research projects involve local communities in mosquito-collection activities. Since 2012, Target Malaria, a not-for-profit research consortium, has been working with community members in various studies of mosquito collection, release and recapture in the village of Bana, in Western Burkina Faso. Target Malaria’s long-term goal is to develop innovative solutions to combat malaria in Africa with the help of mosquito modification technologies. Since the start of the project, members of local communities have shown interest in playing an active role in the implementation of the project’s research activities, but their actual motivations for such an interest remain under-investigated. This study therefore aimed to examine the factors that motivate the local community to contribute to the implementation of Target Malaria’s activities in the village of Bana. MethodsA qualitative approach was used to examine the factors motivating the local community to assist in the implementation of Target Malaria’s entomological research activities in Bana. 85 individual in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted, followed by interviews with three focus groups, one with youths who had participated in mosquito collections and two with men and women from the village. All data collected were fully transcribed, processed, and submitted for thematic content analysis. ResultsData showed that the willingness of local community members to participate in the entomological research activities of Target Malaria was informed by a wide range of motivational factors. Although the actors interviewed expressed their motivations under different semantic registers, the data showed a degree of consistency between different motivations advanced. These similarities enabled us to classify all of the motivational factors under 5 distinct categories: (a) assist in field research, (b) contribute to a better future, (c) acquire knowledge, (d) earn financial compensation, and (e) gain social prestige.ConclusionThese varying motivations reflected fundamentally different personal and collective perceptions about the participation process. In addition, this study shows that the interest of research on participation is a useful part of understanding public perceptions.

scholarly journals Lithostructural and Petrochemical Survey of Djarkadougou Gold Prospect (South West Burkina Faso / West Africa)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Yao Honoré Koffi ◽  
Sagbrou Chérubin Djro ◽  
Urbain Wenmenga
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Ductile Deformation ◽  
Chemical Compositions ◽  
Calc Alkaline ◽  
Basaltic Rocks ◽  
Bimodal Volcanism ◽  
South West ◽  
Western Burkina Faso

The Djarkadougou gold prospect is located on the Birimian greenstone belt of the Houndé exploration permit held by the company Orezone Inc. The permit is at 275 km far from the capital Ouagadougou south- western Burkina Faso, West Africa. This area is based on sheared and metamorphosed greenschist facies rocks. Metamorphism locally reaches to the amphibolite facies around intrusions. There are two major lithological units whose interface is marked by a NW-SE trending shear corridor: an unit of andesite-basaltic rocks of andesitic breccias in the East and volcaniclastic and sedimentary unit composed flows, tuffs and felsic to mafic breccia, interbedded volcano-sedimentary rocks. All this together is intruded by plutonic rocks, and various felsic to mafic dykes. These rocks have undergone ductile to brittle heterogeneous deformations and hydrothermal alteration sericite ±carbonate ±quartz±sulphide within deformation corridors. The rocks of the East and West domains affected by three phases of brittle-ductile deformation (D1, D2, and D3) and the meteoric alteration is systematic in superficial facies of Djarakadougou core drilling.Geochemical analysis shows a tholeiitic to calc-alkaline volcanic serie characteristic a bimodal volcanism. The spectra of normalized REE chondrites are generally flat and constant reminding those of N-MORB basalt. The chemical compositions of andesite and basalt are deferred on several discrimination diagrams especially Th / Yb - Nb / Yb and 2 Nb - Zr / 4 - Y show that andesites and basalts of the prospect are issued in geotectonic setting of volcanism preponderant arc.

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