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Sickle cell anemia and pregnancy: Profile of hemodynamic changes in sickle cell pregnant women in Kinshasa

eJHaem, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 977-983, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Pregnancy is accompanied by hormonal changes. These relate mainly to progesterone and placenate growth factor. Hemodynamic changes are also observed. in a sickle cell pregnant woman, all these changes have a direct effect on hypoxia. This is responsible for the polymerization of HbS.
Tite Minga Mikobi, Nelly Ciombo Kamuanya, Emmanuelle Ketsia Bokashanga Mikobi, Thérèse Ilunga Kalela, Pierre Zalagile Akilimali, Prosper Tshilobo Lukusa   +5 more
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From Hell to Hell: Central Africans and Catholic Visual Catechesis in the Early Modern Atlantic Slave Trade

Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023
In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García, Cécile Fromont   +1 more
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British and American norms in the Trinidadian English lexicon

World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 73-90, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Previous work on norm orientations in the Caribbean Englishes has focussed largely on phonological norms, such as accents, and, to a lesser extent, grammatical norm orientation. Outside of the publication of dictionaries, however, lexical norms and their spread have received little attention.
Guyanne Wilson
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Access to opioid analgesics for medical use at hospital level in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An exploratory mixed‐method study

Tropical Medicine &International Health, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 53-63, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Objective To investigate the availability of and access to opioid analgesics at hospital level in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Methods Exploratory mixed‐method study combining a descriptive survey of the availability of opioid analgesics at hospital pharmacies with a qualitative survey that explored the experiences and perceptions of ...
Jacques Zandibeni, Xavier de Béthune, Jean Debethel Bitumba, Jocelyn Mantempa, Léon Tshilolo, Jackie Ndona, Alain Kabemba Mbaya, Donatien Kabamb Kabey, Anselme Mubeneshayi Kananga, Raffaella Ravinetto   +9 more
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Ethnomedicinal Knowledge of Plants Used in Nonconventional Medicine in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
Background. People with diabetes, herbalists, and traditional medicine practitioners (TMPs) from Kinshasa use plants to treat diabetes, but no study has inventoried the plants used by these populations. The present study was conducted to identify the plants used in Kinshasa to treat diabetes mellitus. Methods.
Bashige Chiribagula Valentin, Okusa Ndjolo Philippe, Manya Mboni Henry, Félicien Mushagalusa Kasali, Liaqat Hussain   +4 more
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Intergenerational ethics in Africa: Duties to older adults in skipped generation households

Developing World Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 152-161, September 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper examines individual and societal duties to older adults in sub‐Saharan Africa who reside in skipped generation households, which are households in which a young and old generation live together with the middle generation absent. As they age, older adults in skipped generation households may lack the prospect of social and economic ...
Nancy S. Jecker
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Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo : from predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa [PDF]

, 2015
Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003; Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in Kikongo (Bantu, H16), i.e.
Bostoen, Koen, De Kind, Jasper, de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice, Dom, Sebastian   +3 more
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Ethnopharmacological Survey and Antisickling Activity of Plants Used in the Management of Sickle Cell Disease in Kikwit City, DR Congo

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
Background. Sickle cell disease or drepanocytosis is the most known hemoglobin abnormality in the world. Recently, many medicinal plants used in the management of sickle cell disease in African traditional medicine have shown in vitro antisickling activity. Objective.
Jules Munganga Kitadi, Prince Pambi Mazasa, Damien Sha-Tshibey Tshibangu, Félicien Mushagalusa Kasali, Dorothée Dinangayi Tshilanda, Koto-Te-Nyiwa Ngbolua, Pius Tshimankinda Mpiana, Monica Borgatti   +7 more
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Inheritance and contact in the genesis of Gisamba (Bantu, L12a, DRC) : a diachronic phonological approach [PDF]

, 2020
Gisamba (ISO 639-3: smx) is a nearly undocumented and undescribed as well as highly endangered Bantu language spoken in the Kwilu and Kwango provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Bostoen, Koen, Van Acker, Sifra
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The diachronic semantics of the dissociative past completive construction in the Kikongo language Cluster (Bantu) [PDF]

, 2018
This article aims to give a semantic study of the reflexes of one specific tense/aspect form, namely the so-called *-a-B-a construction, in a cluster of about 40-odd Kikongo language varieties spoken in a wide area around the mouth of the Congo River in ...
Bostoen, Koen, de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice, Dom, Sebastian   +2 more
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