Coffee break: The collapse of the Ivory Coast's economy in the early 1990s produced poverty, malnutrition and a severe strain on the country's health service

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The collapse of the Ivory Coast's economy during the early 1990s led to major inequality between rich and poor, malnutrition and severe poverty. Most people cannot afford western drugs for HIV and AIDS, and some are even unable to pay for basic malaria treatment. However the levels of funding for health services are relatively high. Traditional medicine is often used, and there are traditional healers operating throughout the Ivory Coast. There is also much interest in western medicine, and western-style nursing is held in high esteem.

Medical care, Cote d'Ivoire

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The problem of hospital-induced malnutrition

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Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) can affect patients in hospital. Patients admitted as emergencies are more at risk than those having elective surgery, and the elderly are also considered to have a higher risk than the young. It is suggested that nutrition risk assessment is used to identify patients most at risk of malnutrition. The assessment questions diet, social contacts, health, and home circumstances.

Management, Malnutrition

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Rwanda, one year on: one year after the initial erruption of violence in Rwanda, refugee camps are again under seige. Casulaties of civil war are compounded by problems of malnutrition and widespread tuberculosis

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Malnutrition is still the most prevalent condition in Rwandan refugee camps and emergency feeding centres for children have hade to be set up. The major killers are diarrhoea and dysentery and pneumonia is also common. There is no running water and each family receives just 6-8 litres of water a day, less than a third of the recommended allowance by the World Health Organisation.

Health aspects, Refugee camps

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