scholarly journals Premarital childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa: Can investing in women’s education offset disadvantages for children?

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 164-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Smith-Greenaway
Keyword(s):  
Women's Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Premarital Childbearing

Trend in the use of modern contraception in sub-Saharan Africa: does women's education matter?

Contraception ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques B.O. Emina ◽  
Tobias Chirwa ◽  
Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala
Keyword(s):  
Women's Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Modern Contraception ◽  
Sub Saharan

ENDURING ECONOMIC HARDSHIP, WOMEN'S EDUCATION, MARRIAGE AND FERTILITY TRANSITION IN KINSHASA

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID SHAPIRO
Keyword(s):  
Women's Education ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Secondary Schooling ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City

SummaryThis paper examines fertility transition in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and second-largest city in sub-Saharan Africa. Shapiro (1996) documented the onset of fertility transition in the city, using data from 1990. Women's education was strongly inversely related to fertility, beginning with secondary schooling, and increases in women's education were important in initiating fertility transition in the city. The paper uses data from the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey in the DRC to examine fertility in Kinshasa and assess fertility transition since 1990, a period characterized by severe adverse economic conditions in the DRC. Fertility transition has continued at a strong pace. In part this reflects increased educational attainment of women, but it appears also to be largely a consequence of enduring economic hardship. The ongoing fertility decline has been accompanied by substantial delays in entry to marriage and childbearing, reflecting adverse economic conditions, which in turn have contributed to continuing declines in fertility.

RTS,S/AS01, a vaccine targeting pre-erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 533-537
Author(s):  
Lorenz von Seidlein ◽  
Borimas Hanboonkunupakarn ◽  
Podjanee Jittmala ◽  
Sasithon Pukrittayakamee
Keyword(s):  
Protective Efficacy ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Phase Iii ◽  
European Medicines Agency ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Pivotal Phase ◽  
Malaria Epidemiology ◽  
Maximum Benefit ◽  
Sub Saharan

RTS,S/AS01 is the most advanced vaccine to prevent malaria. It is safe and moderately effective. A large pivotal phase III trial in over 15 000 young children in sub-Saharan Africa completed in 2014 showed that the vaccine could protect around one-third of children (aged 5–17 months) and one-fourth of infants (aged 6–12 weeks) from uncomplicated falciparum malaria. The European Medicines Agency approved licensing and programmatic roll-out of the RTSS vaccine in malaria endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa. WHO is planning further studies in a large Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme, in more than 400 000 young African children. With the changing malaria epidemiology in Africa resulting in older children at risk, alternative modes of employment are under evaluation, for example the use of RTS,S/AS01 in older children as part of seasonal malaria prophylaxis. Another strategy is combining mass drug administrations with mass vaccine campaigns for all age groups in regional malaria elimination campaigns. A phase II trial is ongoing to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the RTSS in combination with antimalarial drugs in Thailand. Such novel approaches aim to extract the maximum benefit from the well-documented, short-lasting protective efficacy of RTS,S/AS01.

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