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Against the Odds: Psychomotor Development of Children Under 2 years in a Sudanese Orphanage

Espie E, Ouss L, Gaboulaud V, Candilis D, Ahmed KA,  et al.
2011-01-06 • Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
2011-01-06 • Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
Providing abandoned children the necessary medical and psychological care as possible after their institutionalization may minimize developmental delays. We describe psychomotor developm...
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Mortality risk among children admitted in a large-scale nutritional program in Niger, 2006

Lapidus N, Minetti A, Djibo A, Guerin JP, Hustache S,  et al.
2009-01-29 • PLOS One
2009-01-29 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND
In 2006, the Médecins sans Frontières nutritional program in the region of Maradi (Niger) included 68,001 children 6-59 months of age with either moderate or severe malnut...
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Effect of preventive supplementation with ready-to-use therapeutic food on the nutritional status, mortality, and morbidity of children aged 6 to 60 months in Niger: a cluster randomized trial

Isanaka S, Nombela N, Djibo A, Poupard M, Van Beckhoven D,  et al.
2009-01-21 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
2009-01-21 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
CONTEXT
Ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs) are an important component of effective outpatient treatment of severe wasting. However, their effectiveness in the population-based pr...
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Effectiveness of ready-to-use therapeutic food compared to a corn/soy-blend-based pre-mix for the treatment of childhood moderate acute malnutrition in Niger

Nackers F, Broillet F, Oumarou D, Djibo A, Gaboulaud V,  et al.
2010-10-01 • Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
2010-10-01 • Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
Standard nutritional treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) relies on fortified blended flours though their importance to treat this condition is a matter of discussion. With the...
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Antimalarial efficacy of chloroquine, amodiaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and the combinations of amodiaquine + artesunate and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine + artesunate in Huambo and Bie provinces, central Angola

Guthmann JP, Ampuero J, Fortes F, Van Overmeir C, Gaboulaud V,  et al.
2005-07-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2005-07-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We studied three antimalarial treatments in Caala and Kuito, Angola, in 2002 and 2003. We tested chloroquine (CQ), amodiaquine (AQ) and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) in Caala, and AQ, S...