La méningite, une maladie des « variations » : pratiques préventives et gestion des épidémies de méningite à Kombissiri et Réo Burkina Faso
Meningitis is an epidemic whose management requires as well medical techniques as social behaviors’. Burkina Faso remains one of the countries of Africa more touched by meningitis. Between 1988 and 1997, WHO counts there more than 700,000 cases and 70,000 deaths, without counting the neurological vi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | French |
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Éditions en environnement VertigO
2012-09-01
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| Series: | VertigO |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/12287 |
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| Summary: | Meningitis is an epidemic whose management requires as well medical techniques as social behaviors’. Burkina Faso remains one of the countries of Africa more touched by meningitis. Between 1988 and 1997, WHO counts there more than 700,000 cases and 70,000 deaths, without counting the neurological victims of meningitis sequelae are difficult to evaluate. The objective of this work is to study the social representations of meningitis and the preventive practices which can contribute to increase the rates of morbidity and mortality.We conducted a socioanthropologic study in Kombissiri (moose’s country) and Reo (lyele’s country) in Burkina Faso. We make individual interviews with tradipraticians, traditional leaders, religious leaders, administrative authorities and health workers. Focus group was made with women, men, pupils and the young people.The results show that actors have knowledge of meningitis : symptomatic descriptions, period of appearance, transmission systems and meningitis sequelae (deafness, stammering, loss of memory, eye trouble). So formerly the stiffness of the neck and the appearance in period of strong hot made conspicuous meningitis, according to the popular designs, the etiologies and the diffuse symptomatic demonstrations of the preventive measures, popular perceptions (perceptions regarding meningitis in local populations) and diagnosis are complex. |
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| ISSN: | 1492-8442 |