Health Care Access to primary health care is nothing granted for most of the rural population in Burkina Faso. Children are still dying from diseases considered as trivial in industrialised countries such as measles. Kwashiorkor or marasmus resulting from protein deficiencies during weaning or early childhood is still commonplace. A mere cut or scratch may develop into a rapidly progressing staphylococcal infection which causes ulcerative necrotising lesions destroying the limbs. Malaria often causes anaemia, if not death in some instances.
Bacterial meningitis kills many infants every year.
The dry season brings bronchitis and the rainy season cutaneous mycosis. JBFA builds rural primary health care centres with therapeutic means adapted to the local environment. We also provide material supports to dispensaries, conduct public health survey. We also train local medical staffs to better deal with predominant diseases through more accurate diagnostic procedures by despatching specialists from Europe and Japan. Considering these healthcare centres as basis for both therapeutic and prevention measures, community health education and public health programs are carried out simultaneously.