Emerging infectious disease like EVD adversely affects government tax and expenditures in many affected African countries. This has the potential to indirectly threaten the lives and livelihoods of more than 22 million people in Ebola-affected areas (ACAPS 2014). The epidemic may also have a long-term socio-economic and political implications on the affected country's development trajectory (Piot 2014). The first episode of the disease was first recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976. The most recent outbreak occurred in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. The origin of EVD (the primary infectious event) is yet to be known in spite of various studies that have been carried out on the epidemic. According to Nadia, (2015) an index case was identified four times and hypothesized in two other instances among the twenty-one documented outbreaks of EVD in Africa. For instance, as at 2016, there were estimated 28,639 suspected, likely, and established cases of EVD and a projected 11,316 deaths from the 2014 epidemic of EVD in West Africa (CDC 2016). More so, there were 2427 reported cases and 1597 deaths in all other outbreaks of Ebola (CDC 2016). The Ebola outbreak began slowly in Sierra Leone and quickly degenerated to an epidemic between May and June, 2014. An ex-post examination indicated that the first case recorded in Sierra Leone was a woman who was a guest at the home of the index case in Meliandou, Guinea (WHO 2015).

Maternity, pregnancy, childbirth, and the period after childbirth impose a substantial burden on women's health and time. This, in turn, can have a significant impact on women's ability to participate in the labour force. This work was aimed at investigating the effect of fertility and other determinants of women's employment in Cameroon. The expo-facto research design and pooled data from the 1991, 1998, 2004, 2011 was used. The Instrumental Variable Probit Model and Control Function were used to analyze the data. The result of the effect of fertility on women's employment in Cameroon was positive and statistically significant. Other determinants like Education, husband education, husband's occupation, marital status, region of origin, and lifetime sex partners also positive and statistically significant influence on women's employment in Cameroon. Woman's age, wealth levels, age at first birth, being a Muslim and year of data had a negative and statistically significant effect on a woman's likelihood to get employed. From the results, it was concluded that, fertility and other determinants statistically significant effect on women's in Cameroon. This study thus recommended the promulgation and subsidization of daycare services in Cameroon to increase the likehood of women with children to seek employment. The work also recommends the promotion of women's education in Cameroon so as to facilitate women's asses to employment.

The World Fact Book ranked Cameroon at the 20 th position with a fertility rate of 4.66 in 2020. UNSD Database (2020) gives the fertility rate of Cameroon as 5.4, 5.2 and 5.0 for 2005, 2010 and 2019 respectively. In the rank for the most obese countries, Cameroon was the 135 th with an average BMI of 11.4 in 2016. In 2019, 11.4% of Cameroonians were obese with an average BMI of 24.4%. These figures show that years with higher fertility rates had lower levels of life expectancy and BMI. This is a possible indication of a direct link between fertility and health. This work was aimed at investigating the determinants of fertility and the effect of fertility on women's health (BMI) in Cameroon. The expo-facto research design and pooled data from the 1991, 1998, 2004, 2011 and 2018 Cameroon DHS data sets were used. The total sample size stood at 50,131. The Instrumental Variable Probit Model, 2SLS Regression were used to analyze the data. Fertility had a positive and statistically significant effect on health. The use of contraceptives, knowledge on ovulation, age at first sex, age at first cohabitation, women's employment, education, husband's education, wealth level, religion and lifetime sex partners all had negative and statistically significant influence on women's fertility. Age and region of origin had a positive and statistically significant influence on women's fertility. Women's educational level, husband's education, skipping meals and religion all had positive and statistically significant influence women's health. Age, husband's occupation, lifetime sex partners, women's employment, use of modern contraceptives, husband's age, age at first birth, respondent's occupation had a negative and statistically significantly influence on women's health. The study recommended birth spacing for 2 years minimum to give the woman's body time to lose weight naturally.

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Many researchers have established the link between genes and obesity. Some other researchers, in an attempt to find out why people with the same genetical setup have different body mass indexes, have amongst other factors linked it to differences in socioeconomic status, differences to dieting pattern and physical activities. A new school of thought has come up to establish the fact that differences in personalities also accounts for differences in body mass index. According to Sutin et al. (2011), personality traits contribute to health outcomes. They found a link between personality and body mass index. This study was out to investigate the effect of personality trait on obesity. We administered 1052 personality test randomly to individuals aged 20 and above in the Bamenda Municipality. The model was estimated using the regression; ANOVA and Correlation analysis. From the analysis, it was realized that there exist a positive and statistically significant relationship between personality trait and obesity. Sanguine and choleric personalities were less likely to be obese compared to melancholic and phlegmatic. The study concluded that, introverts are more likely to be obese than extroverts. It was recommended that individuals who have the melancholic and phlegmatic personality (introverts) should be more actively involved in dieting and exercising. Lastly, it was also recommended that the government of Cameroon should institute one compulsory day of the week for workers sports. All workers should have Saturday as a compulsory sporting day as done in Kenya.