Publications

Objectives: To compare point-of-care (POC) systems in two different periods: (1) before 2010 when all high-risk patients were offered POC management for urogenital gonorrhoea by Gram stain examination; and (2) after 2010 when only those with symptoms were offered Gram stain examination.

Half of the world’s population is under 25 and 1.8 billion is between 10-25 years of age. Enabling young people to attain a good quality of life and health, and especially sexual and reproductive health, is of the utmost priority. Not only is it critical to young people themselves, it is also of vital important in terms of attaining broader development goals related to education, poverty alleviation and gender equity

Les ressources humaines de la santé (RHS) disponibles et accessibles sur tout le territoire sont une condition nécessaire pour offrir des services de santé de qualité à la population et pour assurer une couverture sanitaire universelle pour la population. Ce rapport présente neuf interventions à entreprendre pour améliorer la disponibilité, accessibilité, acceptabilité et qualité des RHS pour les soins, maternelles, néonatales et infantiles (SMNI) dans le but de réduire la mortalité maternelle, néonatale et infantile au Bénin. Les interventions ont été formulées sur la base des projections des besoins et l’offre en RHSMNI (les SF, IDE, MG, GYN et PED, les IB et les AS) au Bénin entre 2014 et 2024, et à travers une dialogue technique entre plusieurs parties prenantes. Par la suite, ils ont été analysées par rapport à leur faisabilité économique (couts, impact, source budgétaire, durabilité), politique, sociale et opérationnelle.

The Royal Tropical Institute did research in 2011 to assess the impact of schoolbased dance4life programmes on young people in Uganda and Russia. This article discusses the concept of meaningful participation using findings from the study. What does this concept mean and which models exist to analyse the different aspects of participation? It is concluded that participation not only becomes meaningful if young people are actively involved and have a voice, but also when it is sustainable and valued by the young people.

Scaling up of nutrition programmes has gained substantial support worldwide, including in many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. But progress in decreasing undernutrition is extremely slow. A sustained reduction in malnutrition, particularly stunting and micronutrient deficiencies, requires an integrated approach to ensuring access to an adequate diet. This policy brief argues for an increased focus on domestic value chain interventions to improve access to nutritious food by poor urban pregnant women and lactating mothers and their children in Sub-Saharan Africa. It also describes an approach for how this can be done.

The changing nature of African agriculture in the face of myriad global, regional and local challenges demands change in agricultural capacity development. Universities are well placed to spearhead this change, but to effectively do so they need to update courses’ content and change the way they are delivered. In particular, changes at an institutional level are required to transform the long-held negative image of universities as backwaters populated by egotistical academics and bureaucratic administrators. The African university must become better positioned to be a facilitator of agricultural innovation, technology, institutions and development.