Enrolment of girls in basic education and risk of tensions on the staff and school infrastructure in Benin: Klouekanmey a typical example • Alphonse M. Affo, Centre de Formation et de Recherche en matière de Population (CEFORP) ; Léonie Tovo

Perceptions, knowledge and health seeking behaviour about danger signs in pregnancy among women of reproductive age in Ife-Ijesha zone, Nigeria • Abiola Alabi, Obafemi Awolowo University

Urbanization and childhood mortality in Nigeria • Diddy Antai, Karolinska Institutet ; Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Stockholm University ; Joaquim Soares ; Gloria Macassa, Karolinska Institutet

The importance of parents for access to education: Findings from South Africa • Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham, Emory University ; Victoria Hosegood, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) ; Christopher R Cunningham, Syracuse University ; Caterina Hill, Africa Center for Health and Population Studies

Impact of ART rollout on sexual and fertility behaviour in Uganda • John Bosco Asiimwe, Makerere University

African women, employment and fertility behavior • Farah Asna-Ashari, Ministry of Education, Iran

Crèche facilities and working (nursing) mothers in Akure southwest Nigeria • Omotosho Babatunde, University of Ado-Ekiti

School failure: realities and challenges: Spotlight on the Guinean case • Alhassane Balde, Université Paris Descartes

Status of orphan and worker in the children in the car: analysis of the situation and research of determinants • Antoine Banza-Nsungu, Institut de Formation et de Recherche Demographiques (IFORD)

Communities assuming responsibility for their own health care • Dina Bebawi, Pathfinder International ; Gamal El Khatib, Pathfinder International ; Andy Cole, Pathfinder International ; Shahira Hussein, Pathfinder International

The situation of children orphaned by AIDS in education in Africa: the case of Burkina Faso • Esther Belemwidougou, Université de Paris X, Nanterre

Using vouchers to pay for performance and reach the poor: The Kenyan Safe Motherhood initiative • Ben Bellows, University of California, Berkeley ; Richard Muga, National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development, Kenya ; Francis Kundu, National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development, Kenya ; Julia Walsh, University of California, Berkeley ; Malcolm Potts, University of California, Berkeley

Women’s health behavior in Ghana: Effects of education, residence, lineage, self-determination and social support networks • John Boateng, Pennsylvania State University ; Constance Flanagan, Pennsylvania State University

The infant and child mortality in Algeria • Dr Boualem OUZRIAT, Association maghrébine pour les études de la population (AMEP)-Section Algérie

The loss of antenatal care in Chad • Franklin Bouba Djourdebbe, Institut de Formation et de Recherche Demographiques (IFORD)

Regional inequalities in infant mortality in Tunisia • Ibtihel Bouchoucha, Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) ; Jacques Vallin, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

Uganda family planning programs: Lessons from the field • Paige A Bowen, Minnesota International Health Volunteers ; Jolene Mullins ; Laura Ehrlich, Minnesota International Health Volunteers ; Diana Dubois, Minnesota International Health Volunteers

Reproductive risk: A 2007 assessment • Nada Chaya, Population Action International ; Sarah Haddock, Population Action International

Re-examining living standards and childhood mortality in Malawi • Henry V Doctor, Columbia University

Population dynamics, poverty and child well-being in Africa: Comparative evaluation of the impact of population dynamics and poverty on the status of vulnerable children in Africa, the case of Khartoum, Sudan • Yasir Elmubarak, University of Gezira, Sudan

Child malnutrition in Cameroon: Does legitimacy of birth matter? • Jacques Emina Be-Ofuriyua, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

Unaccompanied minors from Morocco, migrating from the rural areas to Tangier to try to reach the European shores • Nuria Empez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Alejandro Muñoz, Independant Consultant

Obstetric fistula: State of places in northern Cameroon.
 Knowledge, attitude, perception, behaviour and daily • Sebastien Mveing, Institut National de la Statistique du Cameroun ; Félicien Fomekong, Institut National de la Statistique du Cameroun

Economic inequality in preventive maternal and child health care: A study of rural India • Avishek Hazra, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Debabrata Bera, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Puspita Datta, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

The youth carry the burden of poverty is only that they do not know coz they depend on their parents / friends • Oluoch Isaac

Maternal health care seeking behaviour in Rwanda • Anuja Jayaraman, Independent Consultant ; Tesfayi Gebreselassie, Macro International Inc. ; S. Chandrasekhar, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

Using the DHS to monitor the well-being of South Africa’s older persons • Jané D. Joubert, Medical Research Council of South Africa ; Debbie Bradshaw, Medical Research Council of South Africa ; Beatrice Nojilana, Medical Research Council of South Africa ; Lindiwe L Makubalo, South African Department of Health

Maternal mortality in Kinshasa: therapeutic routes and access to obstetric care in the structures of reference • Eugénie Kabali Hamuli, Université Catholique de Louvain

The factors of the medical management of pregnancy and childbirth in Burkina Faso. • Mahamoudou Kabore

Will young Africa survive the impact of ageing Europe? Analysis of the uncertainty • Lwechungura C Kamuzora, University of Dar es Salaam

Gender dimension of poverty and the Millennium Development Goals in Namibia • Maria Bernadethe Kaundjua, University of Namibia

Middle Africa is demographically trapped • Maurice King, Leeds University

Household environment’s association with math and reading test scores in Ghana • Pearl Kyei, University of Pennsylvania

Using the Bongaarts model in explaining fertility decline in Urban areas of Uganda • Yovani Moses A Lubaale, Makerere University ; Joseph B Kayizzi, Makerere University

Improving maternal and child health: the experience of a Community intervention in Burkina Faso • Abdoulaye Maïga, Université de Ouagadougou ; Banza Baya, Université de Ouagadougou ; Gabriel Sangli, Université de Ouagadougou

“But what happens to the poor?”- Economic inequality in preventive aspects of maternal and child health care in rural Nigeria • Sumit Mazumdar, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Papiya Guha Mazumdar, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Differentials in treatment seeking for common childhood illnesses in Tanzania: Does economic status matter? • Sumit Mazumdar, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Papiya Guha Mazumdar, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

HIV AIDS and the work of children in Congo-Brazzaville • Eric Armel Mbalamona, Centre d'études et de recherche sur les analyses et les politiques économiques (CERAPE)

The Determinants of the school for girls in Yaoundé (Cameroon). • Louise Moyo ; Samuel Kelodjoue, Université de Dschang

Factors affecting the chance mechanism of maternal deaths in Africa • Dilip C. Nath, Gauhati University

Income inequality in South Africa: The possible negative effects of decreasing discrimination • Emily Nix

Fancy things, education and variability in self-reported morbidity: The case of adult women in Accra, Ghana • Maame Nketsiah, Harvard School of Public Health

Managing migration in Sub-Saharan Africa with particular reference to Ghana • Michael Kofi Nsiah, Sunyani Polytechnic

Inequalities in access to maternal health in Gabon • Nicole Ntsame Ondo, Ministère de la Planification et du Développement, Gabon ; Edwige Nfoume Ella, Direction Générale de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (DGSEE)

Evaluating four approaches to community-based programming for orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya and Tanzania • Florence Nyangara, Futures Group ; Minki Chatterji, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. ; Tonya Thurman, Tulane University ; Timothy Wakabi, Axios Foundation ; Zaharani Kalungwa, Axios Foundation ; Lawrence Ikamari, University of Nairobi ; Nana Koran, Tulane University ; Kathy Buek, Futures Group Europe

How are the children? Community-based approach to monitoring and evaluation of child well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa • Florence Nyangara, Futures Group ; Karen O’Donnell, Duke University ; Robert Murphy, Duke University ; Beverly Nyberg

Exploring the link between non-marital childbearing and entry into conjugal unions among South African women: Competing alternatives? • Nompumelelo Nzimande, University of KwaZulu-Natal

The social and economic determinants of maternal morbidity and mortality in Nigeria • Olasupo P. Ogunjuyigbe, Obafemi Awolowo University ; Ayotunde Titilayo, Obafemi Awolowo University

Socio-cultural factors that determine actions that constitutes elder abuse among Nigerians • Uzoma O Okoye, University of Nsukka, Nigeria ; Pepertua L Tanyi, University of Nsukka, Nigeria

Adolescents transition: The challenges and the way out (the African perspective) • Olukunle Omotoso, University of Ibadan

Fertility levels, trends, and differentials in Kenya: How does the own children method add to our knowledge of the transition? • Collins Opiyo, University of Pennsylvania ; Michael Levin, Harvard University

Growth of the population in Africa and its links with poverty. Case of universal schooling in 2010 in Mauritania? • Ahmede Ould Dih, Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances

Determinants of fertility decline in Malawi: An analysis of the proximate determinants • Martin E. Palamuleni, North-West University, South Africa

Changing age-sex structure in selected African countries and their implication on socio-economic development, 1950-2030 • Martin E. Palamuleni, North-West University, South Africa ; Moses Kibet, North-West University, South Africa

Levels, Patterns and Determinants of Marital Fertility among Low Contraceptive Communities of Southern Ethiopia: Experience of Resistant to Fertility Decline • Nigatu Regassa, Hawassa University

Fostering children orphaned by AIDS in contemporary Uganda • China R Scherz, University of California, San Francisco

Poverty, health and territorial governance • Abdoulaye Tall, Ministère du Plan et du Développement Durable

Maternal health care in five Sub-Saharan African countries • Emmanuel O. Tawiah, University of Ghana

Child mortality and socioeconomic differentials: An analysis of disparities by migration status • Kevin J A Thomas, Pennsylvania State University