BACKGROUND: Diarrhea remains the second leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa.
BACKGROUND: Malaria is a major public health problem, especially for children. However, recent reports suggest a decline in the malaria burden.
BACKGROUND: As resources are limited when responding to cholera outbreaks, knowledge about where to orient interventions is crucial.
BACKGROUND: Adherence is one of the main predictors of antiretroviral treatment success. A governmental initiative was launched in 1998 for HIV-infected patients in Senegal to provide access to highly active antiretroviral therapy.
BACKGROUND: The war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been the subject of numerous studies related to the problem of sexual violence.
Expected incidence of acute malnutrition is the most appropriate measure for projecting the needs of a nutritional treatment program over time in terms of staffing, food, and other treatments, but direct estimation of incidence is rarely feasible at th
BACKGROUND: For more than forty years, episodes of violence in the Mindanao conflict have recurrently led to civilian displacement.
BACKGROUND: Sputum microscopy is the only tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic available at peripheral levels of care in resource limited countries. Its sensitivity is low, particularly in high HIV prevalence settings.
OBJECTIVES: To report immunovirological outcomes and resistance patterns in adults treated with triple combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) for 4 years in an HIV programme of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Measles vaccine efficacy is higher at 12 months than 9 months because of maternal immunity, but delaying vaccination exposes the children most vulnerable to measles mortality to infection.
