[Health behaviour of women attending child health clinics in health centers at Abidjan, Ivory Coast]. / Comportements de santé des femmes consultant en protection maternelle et infantile dans lese formations sanitaires d'Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the health behaviour of women attending child health clinics in four health centres (HC) in the Yopougon and Abobo districts of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, in March 2000. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Cross-sectional survey among women who came for infant consultations in the HC. Anonymous questionnaires filled in through interviews by social workers about the last pregnancy, delivery, and family planning (FP). RESULTS: Two hundred and forty-six women were interviewed in 1 month. The age (median: 25 years) and parity (median: two liveborn children) were comparable in the four HCs. A median of four prenatal consultations had been performed during the last pregnancy. The search of albumin and sugar in urine had been performed in >90% of women, like tetanus toxoid immunisation, anti-malaria and anti-anaemia prophylaxis. Blood group was checked in half of the women, syphilis infection status and haemoglobin level in less than one third. According to the HC, 3-23% of the women delivered at home. If delivery occurred in a HC, median duration between admission and delivery was 116 min while median stay at the HC after delivery was 11 h. Only 14% of the women had attended at least one post-partum consultation and 8.5% a FP consultation. CONCLUSION: Our observations have shown a relatively good management of pregnancy in these HC of Abidjan and some failures regarding delivery, post-partum follow-up and infant feeding.

[Infectious disease observed upon travel return. Retrospective and prospective investigation conducted in 1992 with 15 hospitals]. / Pathologie infectieuse observée au retour des voyages. Enquête rétrospective et prospective menée en 1992 auprès de 15 hôpitaux.

We report 1,302 cases of patients observed in the Department of Infectious Diseases in 15 French hospitals: 1,036 in a retrospective study in 1991; 266 in a prospective study in 1992. 48% of patients suffered from malaria, diarrhoea or hepatitis; 50% were admitted in the hospital. We have numbered 191 cases of non tropical diseases, 14 cases of HIV seropositivity and 14 cases of adverse events due to antimalarial chemoprophylaxis.