Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2023 Jan 17;22:18. doi: 10.1186/s12936-023-04451-3

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2023

Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.

PMC Copyright notice

Fig. 1 — Map of Nouakchott, Mauritania, showing the location of the study sites: Teyarett health centre (T) in Teyarett district and Mother and Children Hospital Centre (M) in Ksar district. The names and limits of administrative districts are shown. The city centre is in Tevragh Zeina district, bordering Sebkha, Ksar, and El Mina districts. A large band of rectangular smooth gray area in Dar naim district bordering (M) and (T) represents the international airport (closed since 2016 due to the opening of the new international airport situated outside the city). The gray spots represent houses and buildings. The white zones are unoccupied desert area. The Atlantic Ocean lies to the west of the city