Statement by African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television and Video, presented at FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 1991

AbstractObjectivesTo compare dietary diversity scores measured over a 1-day and a 3-day period, and to assess their relationships with socio-economic characteristics and the nutritional status of rural African women.DesignA qualitative dietary recall allowed calculation of a dietary diversity score (DDS; number of food groups consumed out of a total of nine). Body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage (BFP) were used to assess the nutritional status of women.Setting and subjectsA representative sample of 550 mothers in north-east Burkina Faso.ResultsThe DDS increased from 3.5 to 4.4 when calculated from a 1-day or a 3-day recall (P < 0.0001), although for the latter the DDS was affected by memory bias. The DDS calculated from a 1-day recall was higher when a market day occurred during the recall period. Both scores were linked to the sociodemographic and economic characteristics of the women. Women in the lowest DDS tertile calculated from the 1-day recall had a mean BMI of 20.5 kg m− 2 and 17.7% of them were underweight, versus 21.6 kg m− 2 and 3.5% for those in the highest tertile (P = 0.0003 and 0.0007, respectively). The DDS calculated from the 1-day recall was also linked to mean BFP; all these links remained significant after adjustment for confounders. For the 3-day period, no such relationships were found to be significant after adjustment.ConclusionThe DDS calculated from a 1-day dietary recall was sufficient to predict the women's nutritional status. In such a context attention should be paid to market days.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Altered vaginal microbiota are associated with perinatal mother-to-child transmission of HIV in African women from Burkina Faso.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.13941960.15387104 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Anne Buvé

Keyword(s):

Burkina Faso ◽

Vaginal Microbiota ◽

African Women ◽

Mother To Child Transmission ◽

Child Transmission ◽

Mother To Child

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Gender gap in science in Africa: experience of African women in mathematics association

Pure and Applied Chemistry ◽

10.1515/pac-2020-1209 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Marie Françoise Ouedraogo ◽

Selma Negzaoui ◽

Sophie Dabo-Niang

Keyword(s):

Burkina Faso ◽

Gender Gap ◽

African Women ◽

Female Teachers ◽

Teacher Researchers ◽

Women In Mathematics

Abstract This paper deals with gender gap in Mathematics across Africa. Reducing the gender gap in Mathematics in Africa, is the major aim of African Women in Mathematics Association (AWMA) through various activities. Using macrodata from two international surveys and microdata from two African universities (Joseph Ki-Zerbo of Burkina Faso and Monastir in Tunisia), differences in favor to men in the participation of female teachers and teacher-researchers in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Sciences are highlighted. Some practices, considered by AWMA, aiming to reduce the Gender Gap are also evoked.

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