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Militarized Sexual Violence in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Eastern DRC has been the site of a protracted conflict in which sexual violence has been a defining feature. The method used was a retrospective registry-based study of sexual violence survivors presenting to Panzi Hospital between 2004 and 2008. This analysis aimed to describe the patterns of sexual violence described by survivors and to analyze ...
Susan, Bartels, Jocelyn, Kelly, Jennifer, Scott, Jennifer, Leaning, Denis, Mukwege, Nina, Joyce, Michael, VanRooyen   +6 more
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Women’s Agency and Humanitarian Protection in North and South Kivu, DRC

2022
This Working Paper analyses the role and practices of women’s groups in relation to women’s protection in the provinces of North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Contrasting qualitative materials from communities in Congo with the literature on women’s agency, we explore the spaces, strategies, and repertoires used by women
Camille Maubert, Jeremy Allouche, Irene Hamuli, Eustache Kuliumbwa Lulego, Gauthier Marchais, Ferdinand Mushi Mugumo, Sohela Nazneen   +6 more
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Appearance of konzo in South-Kivu, a wartorn area in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2011
Konzo is an upper motor neuron disease characterized by sudden-onset and irreversible spastic paraparesis occurring in nutritionally compromised people. It is associated with consumption of insufficiently processed cyanogenic-toxic cassava. Cassava, the main caloric source in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been safely consumed for decades in the
J N, Chabwine, C, Masheka, Z, Balol'ebwami, B, Maheshe, S, Balegamire, B, Rutega, M, Wa Lola, K, Mutendela, M-J, Bonnet, O, Shangalume, J M, Balegamire, B, Nemery   +11 more
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Traditional uvulectomy, a common practice in South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Médecine et Santé Tropicales, 2018
Traditional uvulectomy in children, a very common and dangerous practice, remains poorly documented in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The aim of this study was to establish the epidemiological and clinical profile of children after a traditional uvulectomy and to determine their outcome of the children after this practice in 2 pediatric ...
R, Mbusa Kambale, Y, Balibuno, N, Isia Francisca, J, Bwija Kasengi, G, Fatuma Mayele, B, Mungo Masumbuko   +5 more
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Basaltic Lavas of South Kivu, Belgian Congo

Geological Magazine, 1940
In a recent memoir (Holmes and Harwood, 1937, p. 276) I had occasion to point out that “one of the most remarkable features of the igneous activity of late Cretaceous and early Tertiary times is the geochemical and petrological contrast between the kimberlite and olivine-melilitite which perforated the crust of Southern Africa and the widespread ...
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Diabetes Knowledge and Self-Care Practices Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Uvira, Kiliba, Sange, and Luvungi, South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care
Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess baseline knowledge and self-care practices about diabetes mellitus (DM) among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Uvira, Kiliba, Sange, and Luvungi (U-KI-SA-LU), South Kivu Province of the ...
Désiré M. Kindarara, Juslin Bamu Murondere   +1 more
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Electrocardiographic patterns in an urban community of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
The aim of the present study was to obtain EKG parameters in an urban community in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to determine the prevalence of asymptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) and other abnormalities, including the long QT syndrome, and to determine factors associated with such abnormalities.This is a cross-sectional study conducted ...
Levi, Bugwaja, David, Nyembo, Laurent, Bishisha, Léonce, Shangwe, Joyce, Adidja, Mitterrand, Balola, Kanigula, Mubagwa   +6 more
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Mapping and analysis of health financing in South Kivu province (DRC)

Sante publique (Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France), 2023
In South-Kivu, the health system is underfunded due to numerous constraints. Several initiatives have been tested but are insufficient for increasing and sustaining health financing.Analyze the health financing system in South-Kivu, through a mapping as well as quantitative and qualitative analysis of health financing mechanisms.The provincial health ...
Yann, Tapsoba, Eustache, Ndokabilya, Jean-Claude, Wema, Thomas, Engels, Élisabeth, Paul   +4 more
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A Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis of Bean Producers from North and South Kivu

2009
The purpose of this research is to determine how technically efficient small-scale producers are in two provinces (North and South Kivu) in the Democratic of Republic (DR) of Congo at producing two different varieties of beans: bush and climbing beans.
Ross, Kara L., Dalton, Timothy J., Featherstone, Allen M., Ross, Kara L., Dalton, Timothy J., Featherstone, Allen M.   +5 more
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[Carotid intima-media thickness in the Congolese hypertensive in South Kivu].

Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie, 2017
The present work aims to establish the frequency, determinants, and the influence of the increased carotid intima-media thickness on the assessment of cardiovascular risk in hypertensive Congolese subjects.The carotid intima-media thickness was systematically measured using B-mode ultrasound in 254 hypertensive patients aged≥25years, all native of ...
P, Bianga Katchunga, J, Mongane Irenge, R, Canwa, A, Matabaro, S, Nsimire, Q, Kabunga   +5 more
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