Togo constitutional changes spark calls for popular protests
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Source: Reuters: Health - April 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Food prices will climb everywhere as temperatures rise due to climate change
Climate change, and specifically rising temperatures, may cause food prices to increase by 3.2% per year, according to a new study by researchers in Germany. As climate change continues to worsen, this price inflation will mean more and more people around the world don’t have a varied and healthy…#africa #ghana #westafrica #mion #togo #burkinafaso #climate (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa. Researchers are scrambling to figure out why
Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Irrua, Nigeria, and Kenema, Sierra Leone—
Sitting on a bench outside the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo state in southwestern Nigeria in September 2023, Muhammed Luqman Dagana recounted his ordeal earlier in the year with Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease of West Africa. At first the 33-year-old wasn’t alarmed—his fever, headache, body aches, and cough were innocuous enough. A doctor at his local clinic gave him antibiotics for typhoid fever and antimalarial drugs. But his symptoms persisted, so he tried anoth...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Intimate partner violence among women in Togo: a generalised structural equation modeling approach - Jean Simon D, Kondo Tokpovi VC.
This study aimed to assess the magnitude and identify associated factors with intimate partner violence (IPV) in Togo. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Togo. PARTICIPANTS: Women of reproductive age (15-49 years). PRIMARY OUTCOME: ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Togo: Worrying Figures for Pediatric Cancer
[Télégramme228] In Togo, cancer does not spare children. According to figures communicated by experts as part of World Childhood Cancer Day, the country records around 900 cases of pediatric cancer annually. "Pediatric cancers are really present in our country... During the development of the 2022-2025 Cancer Plan, statistics show that there are around 900 cases of pediatric cancers each year. And the projections show that over the next 10 years, these figures will be around 9,000 to 10,000, but these are only (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 21, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Noncommunicable Diseases Togo West Africa Source Type: news
Out of control: the trafficking of improvised explosive device components and commercial explosives in West Africa - Lochhead D, Diakit é T, Sollazzo R., Sow S, Tayo RS, Tettey L.
The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in West Africa expanded dramatically between 2014 and 2022. As of 2022, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria were heavily affected by these weapons, while Benin, C ôte d'Ivoire, and Togo suffered fr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Domestic accidents in children aged 0 to 15 years in the university hospital of Lom é, Togo - Fiawoo M, Agbéko F, Guedenon KM, Hemou M, Koukogue YD, Amblasso M, Kamaga M, Gbadoe AD, Douti NK.
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Source: SafetyLit - December 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Zero-shot traffic sign recognition based on midlevel feature matching - Gan Y, Li G, Togo R, Maeda K, Ogawa T, Haseyama M.
Traffic sign recognition is a complex and challenging yet popular problem that can assist drivers on the road and reduce traffic accidents. Most existing methods for traffic sign recognition use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and can achieve high rec... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Physically violent parental practices: a cross-cultural study in Cameroon, Switzerland, and Togo - Naudin C, Gatti V, Kounou KB, Bagn éken CO, Ntjam MC, Clément M, Brodard F.
Violence against children and adolescents is a widespread problem. However, most studies conducted in this field has been carried out in Western countries and studies are needed in non-Western countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, where rates of chi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Semafor
The Scoop LOME, Togo — Lagos-based Access Bank, one of Africa’s biggest banks, is close to finalizing a regulatory process to launch its first full banking service in Asia in the first quarter of 2024, the chief executive of its holding company told Semafor Africa. The Asian bank plan is part of a…#scoop #togolagos #accessbank #africa #semaforafrica #francophoneafrica #northafrica #herbertwigwe #accessholdings #access (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Deforestation, Encroachment Threaten West Africa ’s One Health Plans
Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary – a conservation center dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and protecting Sierra Leone’s national chimpanzee. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSBy Stella PaulFREETOWN, Nov 3 2023 (IPS) Thirty-three years ago, Bala Amerasekaran – a Sri Lankan by birth – visited Freetown, Sierra Leone. Since then, the West African nation has been his home, where Amerasekaran has dedicated his life to conserving the chimpanzee – Sierra Leone’s national animal.
In 1995, with support from the national government, he founded Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary – the country’s first conservation center that rescue...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stella Paul Tags: Africa Biodiversity Conservation COVID-19 Environment Featured Headlines Health Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Sierra Leone Source Type: news
Longitudinal relationships of psychotic-like experiences with suicidal ideation and self-harm in adolescents - Zhou R, Foo JC, Nishida A, Ogawa S, Togo F, Sasaki T.
Research in adolescents suggests associations between psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs), but insights into their temporal relationship, which may inform prediction, have been limited. Psychological distress... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Epidemiology of psychoactive substance use in Togo: results of WENDU data collection from 2015 to 2019 - Saliou S, Wenkourama D, Kanekatoua S, Affo C, Bawi G, Dassa Kolou S.
INTRODUCTION: Addiction to psychoactive substances (PAS) is nowadays a public health problem. In Togo, data on the use of PAS are scattered, and do not give the national scope of the phenomenon. AIM: To describe the epidemiological characteristics ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Nigeria: Anthrax Outbreak - Nigeria's Health Ministry Issues Alert, Asks Hajj Pilgrims to Shun 'Ponmo', Bushmeat
[Premium Times] The ministry said Anthrax has been discovered in some West African countries, including Ghana, Burkina Faso and Togo. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 15, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Mali: WHO Congratulates Benin and Mali for Eliminating Trachoma As a Public Health Problem
[WHO] WHO has validated Benin and Mali as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making them the fifth and sixth countries in WHO's African Region to achieve this significant milestone. Countries that previously received WHO validation for trachoma elimination are Ghana (June 2018), Gambia (April 2021), Togo (May 2022) and Malawi (September 2022). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 17, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
