A successful strategy of task-shifting child immunization activities to CHWs in insecure areas of Burkina Faso to improve vaccine coverage is described, which holds the promise of maintaining or even improving performance if institutionalized and scaled up while improving the monitoring of adverse events following immunization by
READ MOREMCC''s five-year compact with Burkina Faso ends on July 31. This story is part of a series of blogs and stories to be published during the month of June that highlights the accomplishments of
READ MORE5 · Stay on top of Burkina Faso latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera''s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps.
READ MOREShifting Risks in Burkina Faso. November 2, 2014. The man who ruled Burkina Faso for 27 years fell from office a few days ago, and the contours of the transition that will follow remain unclear. The Early Warning Project''s statistical risk assessments suggest that this tumult has roughly doubled the risk of an onset of state-led mass killing
READ MORE2 · LOLITA C. BALDOR. June 24, 2024 at 12:14 AM. GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The forced U.S. troop withdrawals from bases in Niger and Chad and the potential to
READ MOREBurkina Faso, with its total area of 105,900 square miles (274,200 square kilometers), sits landlocked in the heart of West Africa shares its borders with six other nations: Mali to the north and west, Niger to the east, and Benin to the southeast, while to the south it touches Togo, Ghana, and Ivory Coast. The country''s geography unfolds
READ MOREViolence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world''s fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people. Government data shows the number has mushroomed by more than 2,000% since 2019. Figures released last month said more than 2 million people were internally
READ MOREThis study has two main objectives. The first is to conceptualize the wider range of effects of task shifting through a systems thinking lens. The second is to explore these effects using task shifting for HIV in Burkina Faso as a case study. Methods: We used a case study approach, using qualitative research methods. Data sources included
READ MOREOriginating in Mali, militant Islamist groups threaten an increasing number of communities throughout Burkina Faso, shifting the epicenter of violence in the Sahel.
READ MOREAccording to Russia''s TASS news agency, Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Georgiy Muradov indicated discussions with Burkina Faso and other African countries regarding potential trade missions. He highlighted North African and Sahel nations like Niger, Mali, and Chad as showing particular interest in Crimea. "We aim to promote direct trade
READ MORE1 · Niger Armed Forces members and U.S. troops conduct training in Niger, Africa, in 2018. U.S. troop withdrawals from Niger and Chad will be a key issue at a chiefs of
READ MOREIntroduction: Faced with the frequent disruptions to the health care system and provision of immunization services caused by terrorist attacks that began in
READ MOREBurkina Faso has used CHWs in task-shifting for the management of childhood illnesses such as malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia. 14 CHWs are also involved in the implementation of self-injection in family planning with good results. Successful experiences of CHW task-shifting have also been reported in several other countries.
READ MOREMethodology: Between September 2021 and February 2022, oropharyngeal and/or nasopharyngeal swab samples of consecutively selected COVID-19 symptomatic and apparently healthy workers from the Wahgnion mining site in the South-western Burkina Faso who consented to the study were collected according to the two
READ MOREThe second is to explore these effects using task shifting for HIV in Burkina Faso as a case study. We used a case study approach, using qualitative research methods. Data sources included document reviews, reviews of available data and records, as well as interviews with key informants and health workers. In addition to the traditional
READ MOREIn this work, mesoscale wind resource maps, at 5 km resolution, of the country of Burkina Faso (274,200 km²) were developed using the Anemoscope and Mesoscale Compressible Community (MC2) models
READ MORELanguage maintenance and language shift in Burkina Faso: The case of the Koromba Kedrebeogo, Gerard
READ MOREAs part of Burkina Faso''s national health system resilience plan, a task-shifting strategy was piloted in 1 district using community health workers (CHWs) to
READ MORE20 1. Chief of Mission Priorities. Burkina Faso''s January 24, 2022 coup d''état has compelled us to recalibrate our relationship with this country, which remains critical to U.S. efforts to counter the spread of extremism in the Sahel and to the littoral countries to the south. Before the coup, Burkina was considered a consolidating
READ MORE5 · For the second year in a row, Burkina Faso is the world''s most neglected displacement crisis, according to NRC. camera-inverse Published On 3 Jun 2024 3 Jun 2024
READ MOREConclusion. Au Burkina Faso, des conflits se produisent dans plus ou moins toutes les localités, où l''exploitation minière de l''or a lieu et où des mines à grande échelle sont sur le
READ MOREThat the coup was so short-lived suggests that power in Burkina Faso is steadily shifting away from the army to civilians. Last year people took to the streets to successfully end the rule of Mr
READ MORE2 · The forced U.S. troop withdrawals from bases in Niger and Chad and the potential to shift some troops to other nations in West Africa will be key issues as the top U.S.
READ MOREIMF staff and the Burkinabè authorities have reached staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the first review of the ECF arrangement. Once the review is approved by IMF Management and completed by the IMF Executive Board, Burkina Faso will have access to about US$32 million (SDR 24.1 million) in financing.
READ MOREBurkina Faso ranks 5th among gold producing countries in Africa after South Africa, Ghana, Mali and Tanzania [4]. The ministries in charge of mines, finance and the environment mainly manage the
READ MOREColonialism in Burkina Faso led to a shift from oral to written literature, influenced by the introduction of Western education and written communication methods. Oral traditions persisted and began to intermingle with written forms, offering a blend of traditional and modern literary expressions while the literature itself captured the complex
READ MOREBurkina Faso. Burkina Faso''s family farmers shift from local growers to regional exporters MCC''s five-year compact with Burkina Faso ends on July 31. load up on tomatoes and onions and
READ MOREMethods: A two-stage cluster population-based SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence survey was conducted in Bobo-Dioulasso and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar and Kumasi, Ghana between February and June 2021. IgG seropositivity was determined in 2,163 households with a specificity improved SARS
READ MORE2 · GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The forced U.S. troop withdrawals from bases in Niger and Chad and the potential to shift some troops to other nations in West Africa will
READ MOREBurkina Faso has been named the world''s most neglected displacement crisis by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) for the second year. In its annual report,
READ MOREThis article seeks to explore what enables mining-related protests in the affected localities to become manifest. In an empirical analysis of three local conflicts over gold mining in Burkina Faso it is demonstrated how shifting political-institutional conditions on the national scale have fostered the eruption of protests at various mining localities
READ MOREIn the case of northern Burkina Faso, a detailed charcoal sequence over 4000 years can be used to describe the development of the woody vegetation through time and under increasing human impact. Archaeological, archaeobotanical and archaeozoological data from the same sites add information to develop a coherent
READ MOREJOINT TEAM. PROGRAMME CONTRIBUTIONS AND RESULTS IN 2020-2021 In Burkina Faso, the Joint Team and other development partners made substantial financial and
READ MORE8 · The political transition following the events of 2014 led to the first peaceful transfer of power between civilian governments in Burkina Faso''s history and marked a
READ MOREBurkina Faso Crisis Continues to Spiral 1 By the Africa Center for Strategic Studies August 29, 2023 Following two military coups d''état in 2022, militant Islamist groups in Burkina Faso have moved to encircle Ouagadougou leaving a trail of unprecedented violence in their wake. CÔTE D''IVOIRE >30 20–30 Events with 0–5 Fatalities 5–10
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