The assessment of fever in under-five children in the Ekounou Health Area of Yaounde, Cameroon: Usefulness of rapid diagnostic tests

Tiedeu, Barbara Mma Atogho; Tadjouo, Liliane Mekue; Sontsa, Olivier Tresor Donfack; Mbanya, Jean Claude; Mbacham, Wilfred Fon

doi:10.5897/ijmms2016.1259

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“…Disease prevalence was high, and malaria was the main disease in both departments during the survey, which occurred during the rainy season. The high incidence rate of Malaria, especially in children, was also found in other survey and studies in Cameroun and north east Nigeria [21][22][23][24]. Despite the high prevalence of malaria, we found a relatively high coverage of mosquito net use (86%) among children under 5 years of age.…”

Section: Morbidity Health Access Food Security and Mortality In Maysupporting

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A telephone based assessment of the health situation in the far north region of Cameroon

Gignoux¹,

Sontsa²,

Mudasiru³

et al. 2020

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Background In 2017, Field access was considerably limited in the Far North region of Cameroon due to the conflict. Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in collaboration with Ministry of health needed to estimate the health situation of the populations living in two of the most affected departments of the region: Logone-et-Chari and Mayo-Sava. Methods Access to health care and mortality rates were estimated through cell phone interviews, in 30 villages (clusters) in each department. Local Community Health Workers (CHWs) previously collected all household phone numbers in the selected villages and nineteen were randomly selected from each of them. In order to compare telephone interviews to face-to-face interviews for estimating health care access, and mortality rates, both methods were conducted in parallel in the town of Mora in the mayo Sava department. Access to food was assessed through push messages sent by the three main mobile network operators in Cameroon. Additionally, all identified legal health care facilities in the area were interviewed by phone to estimate attendance and services offered before the conflict and at the date of the survey. Results Of a total of 3423 households called 43% were reached. Over 600,000 push messages sent and only 2255 were returned. We called 43 health facilities and reached 34 of them. In The town of Mora, telephone interviews showed a Crude Mortality Rate (CMR) at 0.30 (CI 95%: 0.16–0.43) death per 10,000-person per day and home visits showed a CMR at 0.16 (0.05–0.27), most other indicators showed comparable results except household composition (more Internally Displaced Persons by telephone). Phone interviews showed a CMR at 0.63 (0.29–0.97) death per 10,000-person per day in Logone-et-Chari, and 0.30 (0.07–0.50) per 10,000-person per day in Mayo-Sava. Among 86 deaths, 13 were attributed to violence (15%), with terrorist attacks being explicitly mentioned for seven deaths. Among 29 health centres, 5 reported being attacked and vandalized; 3 remained temporally closed; Only 4 reported not being affected. Conclusion Telephone interviews are feasible in areas with limited access, although special attention should be paid to the initial collection of phone numbers. The use of text messages to collect data was not satisfactory is not recommended for this purpose. Mortality in Logone-et-Chari and Mayo-Sava was under critical humanitarian thresholds although a considerable number of deaths were directly related to the conflict.

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Section: Morbidity Health Access Food Security and Mortality In Maysupporting

confidence: 83%

A telephone based assessment of the health situation in the far north region of Cameroon

Gignoux¹,

Sontsa²,

Mudasiru³

et al. 2020

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“…Fever is a common symptom of infectious diseases [13]. In malaria-endemic countries, fever is perceived as malaria by both caretakers and care-seekers [14][15][16].…”

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Dengue and Chikungunya virus circulation in Cameroon and Gabon: molecular evidence among symptomatic individuals

Dongho

Venturi

Fortuna

et al. 2022

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We report the molecular evidence of dengue virus (DENV) and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection in symptomatic individuals in Cameroon and Gabon, respectively. Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) are distributed in the tropical or subtropical regions, with DENV having the highest burden. The morbidity and mortality related to arboviral diseases raise the concern of timely and efficient surveillance and care. Our aim was to assess the circulation of arboviruses [DENV, CHIKV, Zika virus (ZIKV)] among febrile patients in Dschang (West Cameroon) and Kyé-ossi (South Cameroon, border with Gabon and Equatorial Guinea). Dried blood spots were collected from 601 consenting febrile patients, and 194 Plasmodium spp.-negative samples were tested for the molecular detection of cases of DENV, CHIKV and ZIKV infection. Overall, no case of ZIKV infection was found, whereas one case of DENV infection and one case of CHIKV infection were detected in Dschang and Kyé-ossi, respectively, with the CHIKV-infected patient being resident in Gabon. Our findings suggest the need to establish an active surveillance of arbovirus transmission in Cameroon and bordering countries.

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The assessment of fever in under-five children in the Ekounou Health Area of Yaounde, Cameroon: Usefulness of rapid diagnostic tests

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A telephone based assessment of the health situation in the far north region of Cameroon

A telephone based assessment of the health situation in the far north region of Cameroon

Dengue and Chikungunya virus circulation in Cameroon and Gabon: molecular evidence among symptomatic individuals

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