Kindia

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Kindia

a city in the Republic of Guinea. Population, 25,000 (1964).

Kindia is connected with Conakry by railroad and highway. It is the trading center for the surrounding agricultural region (bananas, pineapples, rice, and citrus fruits). The city has food-processing enterprises, and there are major bauxite deposits in the area. Exploitation of these deposits is being carried out with the assistance of the USSR (on the basis of a 1969 agreement).

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Study sites are numbered: 1, Koundara; 2, Conakry; 3, Kindia; 4, Mamou; 5, Kankan; 6, Gueckedou; 7, Macenta; 8, Nzerekore; 9, Mbam Djerem; 10, Libellengoi Sud; 11, Yaounde; 12, Ekom; 13, North Dja; 14, Bipindi; 15, Mbalmayo; 16, Djoum; 17, Mambele; 18, Campo M'an; 19, Boma; 20, Kimpese; 21, Zongo.

Survey of Ebola Viruses in Frugivorous and Insectivorous Bats in Guinea, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2015-2017

WASHINGTON: The World Bank approved $55 million in funding to improve the health of women and children in Guinea's poorest regions - Kindia and Kankan.

World Bank approves $55m in funding to Kindia and Kankan

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As the 18-month epidemic waned in August 2015, Ebola KAP were assessed in a survey among residents of Guinea recruited through multistage cluster sampling procedures in the nation's eight administrative regions (Boke, Conakry, Faranah, Kankan, Kindia, Labe, Mamou, and Nzerekore).

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Ebola Virus Disease at the End of a National Epidemic--Guinea, August 2015

The following districts were included: Kissidougou, Gueckedou, Macenta, Nzerekore and Lola (Forest Guinea), Dubreka, Coyah, Forecariah, Telemele and Kindia (Lower Guinea).

Maternal and child health services in the context of the Ebola virus disease: Health care workers' knowledge, attitudes and practices in rural Guinea

Conakry, Jan 19, 2015 - (ACN Newswire) - UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486; Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL; Moscow Exchange: RUALR), a leading global aluminium producer, announces that construction of the "Centre for epidemic and microbiological research and treatment" in the Kindia administrative region of the Republic of Guinea has completed.

UC Rusal Opens a Modern Epidemiology Centre in Guinea

Anglo-African Minerals, which is planning the 2m tonne a year Kindia project (near to Rusal's operation) in Mali, does not expect any delay as a result of Ebola.

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The district of Kindia in Guinea also reported its first confirmed case, the WHO said, a day after it said the spread of Ebola appeared to have stabilised in that country.