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'Where about are you?' On the art of reading and navigating Kinshasa = 'Tu es à quelle hauteur?' De l'art de s'orienter à Kinshasa Ghent University
Agency in an African city: the various trajectories through time and space of the public market of Kinshasa Ghent University
Kinshasa, the former Léopoldville, developed in less than one century from a few pre-colonial settlements into a metropolis of almost ten million people. In the city, the marketplace has always been at the center of contemporary debates on public space and, therefore, its various trajectories through time and space reveal much about the origins and forces that shaped the city. Drawing on published material, archival documents from both Belgium ...
HIV seroprevalence among hospital workers in Kinshasa, Zaire; lack of association with occupational exposure Institute of Tropical Medicine
A study of seroprevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus involving 2384 (96%) of Mama Yemo Hospital's (Kinshasa, Zaire) 2492 personnel found 152 (6.4%) to be seropositive. Prevalence was higher among women than among men (8.1% vs 5.2%); in women peak seroprevalence (13.9%) occurred in 20- to 29-year-olds. Workers most likely to be seropositive were those who were relatively young, those who were unmarried, those reporting a blood ...
A pseudo-outbreak of pre-XDR TB in Kinshasa Institute of Tropical Medicine University of Antwerp KU Leuven
Fluoroquinolones are the core drugs for management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Molecular drug susceptibility testing methods have considerable advantages for scaling up programmatic management and surveillance of drug-resistant TB. We describe misidentification of fluoroquinolone resistance by the GenoType®MTBDRsl (MTBDRsl, Hain Lifescience GmbH, Nehren, Germany) Line Probe Assay (LPA) encountered during a feasibility and ...
Le lingála dans l’enseignement des sciences dans les écoles de Kinshasa : une approche socioterminologique Ghent University
Dans plusieurs pays africains, les langues héritées de la colonisation continuent à être utilisées comme langues d’enseignement dans le système scolaire, en particulier à l’école secondaire et à l’université et surtout pour les matières scientifiques. La question de la langue d’enseignement peut être abordée sur le plan idéologique (identitaire) ou sur le plan didactique (difficulté à enseigner et à apprendre dans une langue étrangère). Quelle ...
The peri-urban fringe of Kinshasa as an in-between space Ghent University
All over the world, but especially in the Global South, cities expand at a high pace with as a result an ever moving urban frontier and ever growing peri-urban zones. These dispersed peri-urban zones, only in part clustered around one or more historical cores, seem to have a life of their own. While being an integral part of the urbanization process, they cannot be understood in traditional urban terms, they seem to exist in-between the rural ...
Surveillance for AIDS in a central African city, Kinshasa, Zaire Institute of Tropical Medicine
Surveillance for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Kinshasa, Zaire, was initiated in July 1984, using a modified version of the case definition developed by the Centers for Disease Control. During the first eight months, 332 patients met all clinical and laboratory criteria; surveillance information was available for 295 (89%) of these patients. Of the sera tested from these patients, 99% had antibodies to human T-cell lymphotropic ...
Signs and symptoms of prevalent and incident cases of gonorrhea and genital chlamydial infection among female prostitutes in Kinshasa, Zaire Institute of Tropical Medicine
Most studies that have examined the clinical features of gonorrhoea and chlamydial infection have been based on prevalent cases (cases of undetermined onset). In their investigation, the authors compared signs and symptoms of incident (new) cases of these infections with those observed in prevalent cases (involving the same women) that were diagnosed at enrolment in a prospective study of female prostitutes in Kinshasa, Zaire. Neisseria ...
Surveillance de l'état nutritionnel de la population de Kinshasa, Zaire (1991-1994) Institute of Tropical Medicine
'Surveillance of the nutritional status of the population in Kinshasa, Zaire (1991-1994)': Six anthropometric surveys using a random cluster sampling design have been organised in the capital of Zaire between November 1991 and March 1994. The prevalence of acute malnutrition fluctuated with the seasons and followed the cyclic movements of food prices on the market. The general tendency was rising. In March '94, 10.7% (95% confidence interval: ...