Publications (111)
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From prediction to early policy action: machine learning early warning for primary school dropout in Burkina Faso's EMIS
Hervé Bassinga, Yacouba Sawadogo , Mamadou Soura , Nabié Douba
School dropout remains a major obstacle to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 in low-income and fragile contexts, where it reinforces intergenerational poverty and social inequalities. In Burkina Faso, rural poverty, insecurity, and gendered social norms combine to produce persistent dropout, particularly in hard-to-reach areas. This art(...)
School dropout, Machine learning, Early warning system, Interpretability, Education policy, Burkina Faso, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Availability, readiness and accessibility of family planning services in Burkina Faso: analysis from health facilities and population cross-sectional data
Danielle Yugbaré Belemsaga, Yentéma Onadja, Siaka Lougué, Henri Gautier Ouédraogo, Rachidatou Compaoré, Abdoul Aziz Kinda, Fiacre Bazié, Georges Guiella, Séni Kouanda
Background Access to Family Planning (FP) services remains limited in many low-income countries, particularly in Burkina Faso. Understanding the availability, readiness, and geographic accessibility of contraceptive services is essential to improve delivery and utilization.
Methods We conducted a secondary data analysis from two databases lin(...)
Family planning services, Availability, Readiness, Accessibility, Health facilities, Burkina Faso, HHFA, PMA
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Reproductive Agency: Validation of a Measure for Women's Autonomy in Family Planning and Sexual Intercourse in Burkina Faso
Fiacre Bazié, Yentéma Onadja, Abdramane B. Soura, Meagan E. Byrne & Fernand B. Bationo
The links between women's empowerment and their reproductive health remain complex due to persistent challenges in defining empowerment and its various components, as well as the factors shaping it in different contexts. These difficulties also stem from the inability to conceptualize reproductive empowerment as an independent process that bot(...)
Reproductive Agency; Women's empowerment; Measurement validation; Family planning; Sexual autonomy; Burkina Faso
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Community norms, individual attitudes and longitudinal changes in contraceptive agency among young women in Burkina Faso
Fiacre Bazié, Clémentine Rossier, Yentéma Onadja and Abdramane B. Soura
Most research exploring the factors influencing women’s decision-making power has focused on individual characteristics, particularly education, employment, or, more broadly, women’s socioeconomic status. However, some contradictory findings suggest that individual characteristics alone are insufficient to fully explain disparities in women’s(...)
Agency, Norms, Attitudes, Sexual and reproductive health, Adolescent girls, Young women, Burkina Faso
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The enduring burden of short birth intervals on child survival: A 28-year trend analysis in Burkina Faso
Hervé Bassinga
Child survival has improved considerably over the past decades in sub-Saharan Africa, yet preventable risk factors such as closely spaced births continue to threaten progress, especially in fragile contexts. This study examines the association between interbirth intervals and under-five survival in Burkina Faso using data from five rounds of D(...)
Under-five; mortality; Birth spacing; Determinants; Burkina Faso
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Agentivité reproductive, utilisation de la contraception et expérience des rapports sexuels non souhaités chez les femmes burkinabè
Fiacre BAZIE, Yentéma ONADJA, Abdramane B. SOURA, Georges GUIELLA
Cette étude analyse les liens entre l’agentivité reproductive des femmes et deux résultats de santé reproductive au Burkina Faso : l’utilisation d’une méthode contraceptive moderne et l’expérience de rapports sexuels non souhaités. À partir des données PMA collectées auprès des femmes en âge de procréer (15-49 ans), cette recherche utilise une(...)
Burkina Faso, femmes, agentivité, contraception, rapports sexuels non souhaités
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Changes in the use of basic obstetric care in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from demographic and health surveys using an Oaxaca-Blinder approach
Hervé Bassinga, Douba Nabié, Oumy Ndiaye, Ouattara Karim, Matè Alonyenyo Labité, Daniel Mwanga
Background
The widespread mobilisation to improve maternal health over recent decades has led to increased prenatal consultations and assisted deliveries, resulting in a significant reduction in maternal mortality in many sub-Saharan African countries. This paper examines the progress made in basic obstetric care in four sub-Saharan African(...)
basic obstetric care, performance effect, composition effect, Sub-Saharan
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Socioeconomic and contextual determinants of cervical cancer screening uptake in West Africa: a multilevel analysis of recent DHS data from five countries
Aristide Romaric Bado, Hervé Bassinga, Douba Nabié
Background
Cervical cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality among women in sub-Saharan Africa, despite effective screening methods. This study examined individual- and household-level predictors of ever having been screened for cervical cancer in 5 West African countries and residual between-cluster variation(...)
Uterine cervical neoplasms; Early detection of cancer; Socioeconomic factors; Health services accessibility; Multilevel analysis
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LES INÉGALITÉS EN MATIÈRE DE TRANSFERTS DE FONDS ET LEURS RÉPERCUSSIONS SUR LES CONDITIONS DE VIE DES MÉNAGES LEFT BEHIND
Gabriel SANGLI; Souhoude OUEDRAOGO
L'originalité de cet article réside dans la cible de l'étude, à savoir les enfants left behind, autrement dit, les enfants restés au pays d’origine des parents au moment de leur départ ou renvoyé dans ce pays après la migration de leurs parents biologiques. L'objectif est d'analyser les effets des transferts ou envois d’argent/ de fonds dans l(...)
Migration, Enfant left behind, Inégalités, Transfert de fonds, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso
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Les populations francophones au Burkina et au Mali depuis le milieu des années 1980
Moussa Bougma, Mamadou Konaté et Richard Marcoux
À la fin des années 1960, devant l’absence d’informations de base sur les populations dans la vaste majorité des pays d’Afrique subsaharienne nouvellement indépendants, le Fonds des Nations unies pour la population (FNUAP) a mis sur pied le Programme africain de recensements (PAR). Ce programme a ainsi permis à plus d’une vingtaine de pays du(...)
Langue, Burkina, Mali,
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Publication disparities in gender-transformative sexual and reproductive health in West Africa
Lowe Mat, Kéfilah Bello, Bernice Gyawu, John K. Krugu, Aminatou I. Assoumane, Ngianga B. Kandala, Nathalie Sawadogo
This opinion paper is informed by a scoping review and validated through a multi-stakeholder
workshop. In May 2024, the Gender Transformation for Africa, an African-led research
partnership that includes programme implementers and researchers who are working on
gender-transformative research projects to advance sexual and reproductive healt(...)
gender-transformative approaches, health, West Africa, publication, disparities
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Violences faites aux enfants au Burkina Faso : rôle des attitudes personnelles et des normes communautaires perçues liées à la punition verbale et corporelle
YENTEMA ONADJA
Les études portant sur les violences faites aux enfants sont nécessaires pour accélérer les progrès vers la prévention de cette pratique néfaste. Cette étude examine l’influence des attitudes personnelles des enfants et des normes communautaires perçues concernant la punition verbale et corporelle sur les violences subies par les enfants au Bu(...)
Violences faites aux enfants, violence émotionnelle, violence physique, violence sexuelle, attitudes personnelles, normes communautaires perçues, punition verbale, punition corporelle, Burkina Faso
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A pill to control the uterus: misoprostol and reproductive politics in Burkina Faso and Senegal
Siri Suh, Tidiane Ndoye and Nathalie Sawadogo
African women’s uteri have long been objects of biomedical and technolo-
gical control, from the promotion and discouragement of births by colonial
authorities and development experts, to the neoliberal and feminist achieve-
ments of reproductive autonomy through consuming pharmaceutical pro-
ducts. We explore misoprostol – a medication fo(...)
Abortion; Burkina Faso; ethnography; maternal mortality; misoprostol; Senegal
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Reasons for contraceptive nonuse at two sites in Burkina Faso
Leigh Senderowicz, Emma Romell, Brooke W. Bullington, Nathalie Sawadogo, Katherine Tumlinson
Objective: We examine reasons for contraceptive nonuse in Burkina Faso.
Study Design: We draw from a population-based survey of 3,929 women, of whom 2,462 were
nonusers of contraception. We use descriptive statistics to examine the distribution of reasons for
nonuse.
Results: Over 80% of respondents reported lack of desire or need for cont(...)
Burkina Faso, Contraceptive nonuse, Contraceptive use, Sub-Saharan Africa, Unmet need
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Tendances et inégalités de contraception moderne au Burkina Faso : Une analyse à l’aune des politiques et programmes de planification familiale
Roch Modeste Millogo, Douba Nabie, Bruno Lankoande, Mahamadi Tassembedo, Nadine Tamboura Bamogo, Melinda Munos, Abdoulaye Maiga
Contexte. L’objectif de cette étude étaitd’analyser les évolutions et les inégalités de couverture con-traceptive moderne à la lumière des politiques et programmes de planification familiale (PF) au Burkina Faso.
Méthodes. Nous avons réalisé des analyses descriptives et des modèles de régressions pour exami-ner les tendances et i(...)
Contraception moderne, Besoins non satisfaits en PF, Politiques de PF, Burkina Faso