Département de Nutrition, Laboratoire de protection maternelle et infantile, Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles(CRSN) Lwiro, DS/BUKAVU, Sud Kivu, RD Congo
Since long; there have been several community health projects that are attempting to solve problems linked to maternal and infantile morbimortalities. These kinds of projects remain unfulfilled to pygmies and other people from black Africa.
This descriptive transversal study about the techniques of traditional birth, as factors which promote the motherly and infantile mortality was carried out in MitiMurhesa health zone during a period from September 2018 to October 2019 in 4 sites (Buyungule, Cibuga, Cirharhangwa and Muyange) where Pygmies live. Traditional childbearing techniques which are applied by midwives pygmies would expose pygmies women giving birth and the new born to factors which can bring them to the death. The principal objective of this study is to contribute to the reduction of maternal and infantile mortality and morbidity of native people in MitiMurhesa health zone. An inquiry questionnaire and focus groups were used to collect data during our field descent. We recorded several techniques and inhuman practices that are applied to pygmies’ women giving birth because they have no means to access to health services and yet these pygmies’ women rarely access to prenatal consultation because they are negligent and loafers.
The present retrospective study carried out in Miti Murhesa health area, DR Congo from February 2013 to July 2014 aims to reduce the morbi mortality of pygmy children. It includes only Buyungule, Cibuga, Cirharhangwa and Muyange sites. These specific objectives are to identify the factors which block the vaccination to pygmies, to determine the vaccinal coverage rate to pygmies to (EPV) Enlarge Program of Vaccination and the prevalence of the measles in pygmy populations. This study stands up only to determine the vaccinal state of pygmy children living in the four sites from 0 to 59 months; the study focuses in Miti Murhesa health zone where we find so many pygmies especially in CHOMBO health area. We have realized that pygmy children are not vaccinated, and this is justified by the vaccinal coverage rate of 21,31% with a prevalence due to measles of about 19% in those sites. We have specified in this study the different factors which block the vaccination to pygmies: The ignorance, the fight of injection, cultural belief, and low Instructions level