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Living With Fear: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes About Peace, Justice and Social Reconstruction in Eastern Congo [PDF]
, 2008 Analyzes survey findings on views on the Congo wars, exposure to violence, origins of the wars, trials for war crimes, and priorities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Compares survey data with those in Kishasa and Kisangani.
Patrick Vinck +3 more
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Lipid-based nutrient supplements: how can they combat child malnutrition? [PDF]
, 2012 Kathryn Dewey and Mary Arimond discuss new research in PLOS Medicine that assesses the effect of blanket provision of ready-to-use supplementary food to children at high risk of malnutrition in Chad, and highlight some of the challenges of investigating ...
Arimond, Mary, Dewey, Kathryn G
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Conflict and Health, 2020 Background Insecurity has characterized the Eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo for decades. Providing health services to sustain women’s and children’s health during protracted conflict is challenging. This mixed-methods case study aimed
Chiara Altare +11 more
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Conflict and Health, 2023 Background Health Care Workers (HCWs) in conflict zones face high levels of violence while also playing a crucial role in assisting the population in distress. For more than two decades, the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
Samuel Lwamushi Makali +13 more
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia EuropaeaThe Provincial Assembly and the Ungovernability of the South-Kivu Province: from the Disillusionment to New Departure. The 2018-2023 legislature started with an autosubliminal show in South Kivu, a province of Congo-Kinshasa.
Alain de Georges SHUKURANI MUGENGERE
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Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2020 Cropland degradation in South Kivu, D.R. Congo : farmers’ perceptions and farm characteristics Description of the subject. As compared to neighboring countries in the African Great Lakes Region, there is a glaring lack of up-to-date information ...
Aimé B. Heri-Kazi, Charles L. Bielders
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Hidden lineages in the African Sky Islands: A taxonomic reevaluation of Afrocarduus (Compositae)
Journal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.Species delimitation is crucial for biodiversity studies. Using Hyb‐Seq and phylogenomics, we reassessed Afrocarduus, endemic to Afromontane and Afroalpine regions, uncovering 16 evolutionary lineages (2.3 Mya). Morphological data support their distinctiveness, with acaulescence evolving independently twice. The traditionally broad A.
Lucía D. Moreyra +9 more
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.The highlands of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are home to critically endangered eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei). Climate change could increase the abundance and distribution of Culicoides‐borne diseases. We utilized morphological and molecular techniques to identify Culicoides spp.
Alisa Kubala +11 more
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Targeted water treatment and hygiene (WASH) programs for those residing near diarrhoea patients can be a cost‐effective approach during outbreaks to reduce diarrhoea spread by targeting those at highest risk. We designed the WASHmobile mobile health (mHealth) program for high risk populations for diarrhoea.
Christine Marie George +8 more
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Symptomless banana suckers sourced from Xanthomonas wilt infected fields are a viable alternative for seed within infected banana-based landscapes lacking access to clean planting materials [PDF]
, 2017 Xanthomonas wilt (XW) caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum (Xcm) is an important constraint to banana production in East and Central Africa. The use of clean planting materials (CPM) for establishing new fields/ re-planting rouged fields/mats ...
Bahati, L. +5 more
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