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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 ...
Prospects for malaria control in urban and rural Kinshasa Institute of Tropical Medicine
Malaria is a major cause of paediatric illness and death in Kinshasa, and all 3 million inhabitants are at risk. In view of the increasing chloroquine-resistance of Plasmodium falciparum, the early treatment of fever cases as the sole malaria control measure is no longer acceptable. The prospects for vector control are determined by the effectiveness, the acceptability and the practicability of the various methods in the local conditions of ...
Relation entre parasitémie à Plasmodium et accès fébrile dans différents groupes de population à Kinshasa, Zaïre Institute of Tropical Medicine
'Relationship between Plasmodium parasitemia and febrile episodes in various population groups in Kinshasa, Zaire': The objective of this study was to determine the relative importance of determinants of fever-episodes in an environment with perennial malaria transmission. In 6 neighbourhoods of Kinshasa with different degrees of urbanization, 120 clusters of children younger than 10 years were selected over a one year period and followed up for ...
Le paludisme de l'enfant à Kinshasa (Zaïre); influence des saisons, de l'âge, de l'environnement et du standing familial Institute of Tropical Medicine
Childhood malaria in Kinshasa (Zaire). Influence of seasons, age, environment, and family social conditions: Frequency of malaria in children was evaluated from march 1986 to February 1987 in six districts of Kinshasa by paludometric survey with multiple visits. The six districts were selected according to their geographical situation and their degree of urbanisation. Each month, two stocks of children from 0 to 10 years old dwelling in a street ...