The HPAfrica protocol: assessment of health behaviour and population-based socioeconomic, hygiene behavioural factors - a standardised repeated... (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: The objective of the Health Population Africa (HPAfrica) study is to determine health behaviour and population-based factors, including socioeconomic, ethnographic, hygiene and sanitatio
Assessing community management of water sources in rural Tanzania (Publications)
Millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to safe drinking water sources. Especially children under five years die from the effects of water borne diseases. In rural areas a major cha
Antagonistic effects of <em>Plasmodium</em>-helminth co-infections on malaria pathology in different population groups in Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Plasmodium spp. and helminths are co-endemic in many parts of the tropics; hence, co-infection is a common phenomenon. Interactions between Plasmodium and helminth infections may alter t
Biology of two larval morphological phenotypes of <em>Aedes aegypti</em> in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
Since 2008, several outbreaks of yellow fever and dengue occurred in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire. A better knowledge of the biology of Aedes aegypti populations, the main vector of