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Severe maternal morbidity from direct obstetric causes in West Africa: incidence and case fatality rates by Prual, A, Bouvier-Colle, M H, de Bernis, L, Bréart, G

“…Data on maternal morbidity make it possible to assess how many women are likely to need essential obstetric care, and permit the organization, monitoring and…”
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Ensuring financial access to emergency obstetric care: Three years of experience with Obstetric Risk Insurance in Nouakchott, Mauritania by Renaudin, P, Prual, A, Vangeenderhuysen, C, Ould Abdelkader, M, Ould Mohamed Vall, M, Ould El Joud, D

“…Abstract Introduction: The high cost of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) is a catastrophic health expenditure for households, causing delay in seeking and…”
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I238 Human rights in high maternal mortality countries: What progress? by Ngwena, C., de Bernis, L., Bergevin, Y., Prual, A.

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Obstetric fistulae: incidence estimates for sub-Saharan Africa by Vangeenderhuysen, C., Prual, A., Ould el Joud, D.

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Risk factors for perinatal mortality in West Africa: a population-based study of 20 326 pregnancies by Chalumeau, M, Salanave, B, Bouvier-Colle, M-H, de Bernis, L, Prua, A, Bréart, G

“…The aim of the study was to identify simple clinical risk factors for perinatal mortality (PNM) in different areas of West Africa, to quantify their prevalence…”
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Traditional uvulectomy in Niger: a public health problem? by Prual, A, Gamatie, Y, Djakounda, M, Huguet, D

“…Although traditional uvulectomy, a procedure which consists of cutting away a part of the uvula, has been reported in several sub-Saharan African countries, in…”
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Consequences of Schistosoma haematobium infection on the iron status of schoolchildren in Niger by Prual, A, Daouda, H, Develoux, M, Sellin, B, Galan, P, Hercberg, S

“…The relationship between iron status and degree of infection by Schistosoma haematobium was studied in 174 schoolchildren from Niger in an area endemic for…”
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Are pediatric wards in developing countries only places to die? A study of prior to hospitalization risk factors of death among 0-2 year old hospitalized children in Niamey, capital of Niger by Gamatie, Y, Prual, A, Wollo, J, Huguet, D

“…The 461 0-2-year-old children admitted to the paediatric ward of the National Hospital in Niamey over a 2-month period were closely followed up from admission…”
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Effect of iron supplementation on the iron status of pregnant women: consequences for newborns by Preziosi, P, Prual, A, Galan, P, Daouda, H, Boureima, H, Hercberg, S

“…We studied the effect of iron supplementation on the iron status of mothers and on biochemical iron status and clinical and anthropometric measures in their…”
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Randomized clinical trial comparing hospital to ambulatory rehabilitation of malnourished children in Niger by Chapko, M K, Prual, A, Gamatié, Y, Maazou, A A

“…This study compared hospital to ambulatory nutritional rehabilitation outcomes and costs. Following a hospital stay to resolve initial acute medical…”
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Sexual behaviour, AIDS and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa by Prual, A, Chacko, S, Koch-Weser, D

“…Within the rapidly progressing pandemic of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Sub-Saharan Africa plays a disproportionally large role. The reported…”
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Iron status in Nigerian mothers and their newborns by Daouda, H, Galan, P, Prual, A, Sekou, H, Hercberg, S

“…An evaluation of iron status was carried out on 364 Nigerian pregnant women from Niamey at delivery and in cord blood from their newborns. Anemia, defined as a…”
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Pregnancy and delivery in western Africa. High risk motherhood by Prual, A

“…According to the World Health Organization, 585,000 women die each year from a pregnancy-related cause, 99% of whom are from developing countries. The first…”
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Pregnancy and delivery in western Africa. Towards a lower risk motherhood? by Prual, A

“…The maternal mortality ratio is the health indicator displaying the greatest disparity between industrialized and developing countries. Medical causes have…”
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Ensuring financial access to emergency obstetric care : Three years of experience with obstetric risk insurance in Nouakchott, Mauritania : Averting maternal death and disability by RENAUDIN, P, PRUAL, A, VANGEENDERHUYSEN, C, OULD ABDELKADER, M, OULD MOHAMED VALL, M, OULD EL JOUD, D

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Selenium determination in human milk in Niger: influence of maternal status by Arnaud, J, Prual, A, Preziosi, P, Favier, A, Hercberg, S

“…Selenium (Se) was determined in human milk from women residing in Niamey (Niger) at different periods of lactation. To this purpose, a rapid electrothermal…”
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The quality of risk factor screening during antenatal consultations in Niger by Prual, A, Toure, A, Huguet, D, Laurent, Y

“…A decade after the first International Conference on Safe Motherhood, maternal mortality remains very high in most West African countries, even in capital…”
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Can clinical risk factors for late stillbirth in West Africa be detected during antenatal care or only during labour? by Chalumeau, Martin, Bouvier-Colle, Marie-Hélène, Breart, Gérard

“…Background Recent studies have shown that the most important risk factors for perinatal mortality in developing countries are not detectable during antenatal…”
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Midwives in Niger: an uncomfortable position between social behaviours and health care constraints by Jaffre, Y, Prual, A

“…Maternal mortality rates are very high in developing countries. In Niamey, the capital of Niger, maternal mortality rate is 280/100,000, in spite of a high…”
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Evaluation of iron status in Chadian pregnant women: consequences of maternal iron deficiency on the haematopoietic status of newborns by Prual, A, Galan, P, De Bernis, L, Hercberg, S

“…An assessment of iron status was performed on 112 pregnant women at delivery (and on their newborns in 70 cases) and on 114 menstruating women in N'Djamena,…”
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