[PDF] Top 20 Cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau (2008): the importance of "place".

... focusing the preparedness activities in three regions: the Sector Autoˆnomo de Bissau, Biombo and Bijagos, as these areas were the most affected in the 2008 ... See full document

... that the elections to be supposedly carried out in March would be postponed until the end of the ...year. In the end of January the hostilities reignited ... See full document

... that the life paths of those who participated in the liberation struggle span a much longer period of time, comprising the Portuguese colonization, which was marked by numerous ... See full document

... for the Gantongo community reported seven cases with similar features in the ...during the month of Ramadan. Unfortunately one of these cases (male 25 years old) died prior to ... See full document

... because of its poetic and spoken elements, which, combined with music, remind us of the ancient transmission of myths and founding ...overcome the traditional dichotomy between art and ... See full document

... infection of older women [44]. However, 6 young men (16 years of age) were found to have become infected with HTLV-1 between 1997–2007 in the Caio community [15], which led us to consider ... See full document

... measures, in order to avoid cholera transmission from Spain. The military were in place, as well as health ...officials. In Elvas, a fortified town in the border, ... See full document

... decades the cashew sector has acquired an enormous importance in Guinea-Bissau’s economy, both in terms of national budget and of the livelihood of rural ... See full document

... Placed in a strategic geographical location, the Bijagó Islands maintained a crucial position in the economic and political landscape of the Senegambian re- gion for several ... See full document

... group of young men living in the small urban centre on the island of Bubaque, Praça de ...lamented the marginality of the region they were living in with ex‑ ... See full document

... resistance in so-called ‘Portuguese Guinea’ spans centuries, with scholars typically observing that, as a result, colonial influence was always limited to certain areas, the Portuguese unable to ... See full document

... matter of local political life is kept behind the ...mean in a context of medium-poor literacy level; lacking printed or IT media resources, meetings under the shadow of ... See full document

... perform the four basic functions of spatial input, storage, analysis and output (Goodchild ...both the spatial and temporal statistical analytical methods to analyse raw data of count ... See full document

... cases of cholera in Zimbabwe were reported to the World Health Organization in August, 2008 ...total of 98,522 cholera cases and 4,282 deaths were reported [14]. ... See full document

... Kirpich A, Weppelmann TA, Yang Y, Ali A, Morris JG Jr, Longini IM (2015) Cholera Transmission in Ouest Department of Haiti: Dynamic Modeling and the Future of the Epidemic. This is an op[r] ... See full document

... are the main causes of squamous cell cancers of the upper aerodigestive ...cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck region, and lungs (‘ield ...risk of developing second ... See full document

... for the alloy was determined by testing cylindrical Ø 6 x 90 mm specimens on the Gleeble 3800 ...to the specimens, and then the specimens were fixed in the chamber by means ... See full document

... In short, cocaine in transit had obviously been stockpiled in Guinea-Bissau on an increasing scale by Colombian drug cartels since 2004, apparently with the consent of ... See full document

... excellence of ‘context analysis’ in both evaluation reports is revealing of the close relationship between evaluators and the object under ...II’. In both evaluations, a very ... See full document

... RESUMO Na República da Guiné-Bissau, um dos países mais pobres do mundo, o Plano Nacional de Desenvolvimento Sanitário (PNDS) pretende ser o documento de orientação nacional em saúde. O PNDS II (2008-2017) sucedeu ... See full document