Infant Diarrheas in a Sub-Saharan Urban Environment (Yaoundé): An Epidemio-Geographical Approach

Studies on urban space especially within the context of urban tropical environments took a new dimension in the wake of the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development held in Rio in 1992. Geographical or related studies which have treated this notion in the African context have generally stuck to the existence of myriad problems perceived as constraints to city life such as difficulties related to housing insufficient supply of potable water poor drainage and waste disposal urban transport difficulty and all types of pollutions. However to limit urban space in Africa only to these problems does not seem to constitute a firm scientific research objective because this urban space is a social structure that in its functioning influences the life of the city dweller. For the reason that sufficient attention has been centered on the functioning of these tropical cities as living organisms where human beings subsist in interdependence with one another we therefore in line with several earlier writers expand on this question by introducing the issue of persistence of numerous infectious diseases and parasites studied in sub-Saharan Africa. (excerpt)