ABSTRACT
Financial barriers represent a major obstacle to access to health care in sub-Saharan Africa and thus to the implementation of the Bamako Initiative. We describe an experience in which a civil society organization financed a free healthcare campaign in a rural health district in Cameroon. In all, 2,073 patients received free consultations, laboratory tests, and drugs. Adults older than 40 years accounted for 55.7% of all patients. The most frequent diseases were: osteoarticular conditions (24.1%), malaria (20.8%), and intestinal parasitosis (12.5%). In health systems financed mainly by cost recovery, some population needs remain uncovered by health services. There is a need to involve and reinforce the role of civil society in health system financing. It can help to pool more funds and improve the management of health resources to increase financial access to health care for poor people.
Subject(s)
Delivery of Health Care/economics , Health Promotion , Role , Uncompensated Care , Adolescent , Adult , Africa South of the Sahara , Cameroon , Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , Infant , Rural Health , Sociology , Young AdultABSTRACT
Researchers from developing countries, French-speaking nations in particular, are underrepresented in the international biomedical and health literature. Various initiatives seek to address this problem. This article presents the experience of the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) program. This initiative provided 52 young researchers from developing countries with intensive skills and content training, with an assortment of complementary components: training in scientific writing and presenting skills, immersion in global health and health systems research, an innovative presentation of their work at the 52nd colloquium of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, and an active role in the first Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, supervised by a team of experienced researchers/coaches who supported them in the publication of a scientific essay. This approach targeting researchers in developing countries and combining the development of skills and knowledge through the publication process, merits reproduction and encouragement. Young researchers from developing countries should not miss out on the second version of this program in October 2012 in Beijing, China.
Subject(s)
Capacity Building , Developing Countries , Global Health , Research , HumansABSTRACT
A fluorescence spectrum, excited by the synchrotron radiation of Superaco in a microwave discharge through He + SiCl(4), leads to the observation of five new electronic states of SiCl, converging to the ground X(1)Sigma(+) state of the SiCl(+) ion. The (n s varsigma) and (n p pi) Rydberg series are extended respectively to n = 6 and n = 7. A new ionization limit is observed in absorption at 11.238 eV corresponding to the a(3)Pi electronic state of SiCl(+). Four new states are observed which converge to that limit. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
ABSTRACT
The absorption spectrum of a microwave discharge (2450 MHz) in flowing helium with traces of SiF4 has been recorded on the SA61 beam line of SUPERACO between 2000 and 500 Å. Two new ionization energies have been observed at 15.12 and 17.27 eV corresponding, respectively, to the A1Pi and B1Sigma+ states of SiF+. The A1Pi <-- X1Sigma+ transition of the ion has been identified for the first time on high-resolution spectra obtained in 1992 with the 35-foot Eagle spectrograph in Meudon. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
ABSTRACT
The absorption spectrum of heated SnO between 2000 and 300 A has been recorded using the facilities of the SuperACO synchrotron at Orsay, France. New bands have been observed which supplement the data on the previously known systems of SnO. Newly discovered Rydberg series have confirmed the four ionization potentials observed or calculated by Dyke et al. (1982. Chem. Phys. 67, 245). Copyright 1998 Academic Press. Copyright 1998Academic Press
