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Sputum, sex and scanty smears: new case definition may reduce sex disparities in smear-positive tuberculosis.

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SETTING: Urban clinic, Nairobi.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of specimen quality and different smear-positive tuberculosis (TB) case (SPC) definitions on SPC detection by sex.

Ramsay A Bonnet M Gagnidze L Githui W Varaine F Guérin PJ
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2009 May ; 13(5); 613-9. doi: . Epub 2009 07 09

Weight gain at 3 months of antiretroviral therapy is strongly associated with survival: evidence from two developing countries.

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BACKGROUND: In developing countries, access to laboratory tests remains limited, and the use of simple tools such as weight to monitor HIV-infected patients treated with antiretroviral therapy should be evaluated.

Madec Y Szumilin E Genevier C Ferradini L Balkan S Pujades M Fontanet A
AIDS (London, England) 2009 Apr 27; 23(7); 853-61. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32832913ee. Epub 2009 07 06

Multiple origins and regional dispersal of resistant dhps in African Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

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BACKGROUND: Although the molecular basis of resistance to a number of common antimalarial drugs is well known, a geographic description of the emergence and dispersal of resistance mutations across Africa has not been attempted.

Pearce RJ Pota H Evehe MS Bâ el-H Mombo-Ngoma G Malisa AL Ord R Inojosa W Matondo A Diallo DA Mbacham W van den Broek IV Swarthout TD Getachew A Dejene S Grobusch MP Njie F Dunyo S Kweku M Owusu-Agyei S Chandramohan D Bonnet M Guthmann JP Clarke S Barnes KI Streat E Katokele ST Uusiku P Agboghoroma CO Elegba OY Cissé B A-Elbasit IE Giha HA Kachur SP Lynch C Rwakimari JB Chanda P Hawela M Sharp B Naidoo I Roper C
PLoS medicine 2009 Apr 14; 6(4); e1000055. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000055. Epub 2009 04 14

Evaluation of psychological support for victims of sexual violence in a conflict setting: results from Brazzaville, Congo.

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BACKGROUND: Little is known about the impact of psychological support in war and transcultural contexts and in particular, whether there are lasting benefits.

Hustache S Moro MR Roptin J Souza R Gansou GM Mbemba A Roederer T Grais RF Gaboulaud V Baubet T
International journal of mental health systems 2009 Apr 01; 3(1); 7. doi: 10.1186/1752-4458-3-7. Epub 2009 04 01

Effectiveness of melarsoprol and eflornithine as first-line regimens for gambiense sleeping sickness in nine Médecins Sans Frontières programmes.

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This paper describes the effectiveness of first-line regimens for stage 2 human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense infection in nine Médecins Sans Frontières HAT treatment programmes in Angola, Republic of Congo, Sudan an

Balasegaram M Young H Chappuis F Priotto G Raguenaud ME Checchi F
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2009 Mar ; 103(3); 280-90. doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.09.005. Epub 2008 10 22

Comparison of the new World Health Organization growth standards and the National Center for Health Statistics growth reference regarding mortality of malnourished children treated in a 2006 nutrition program in Niger.

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OBJECTIVE: To compare the National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS) international growth reference with the new World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards for identification of the malnourished (wasted) children most at risk o

Dale NM Grais RF Minetti A Miettola J Barengo NC
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2009 Feb ; 163(2); 126-30. doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.540. Epub 2009 02 19

Effect of preventive supplementation with ready-to-use therapeutic food on the nutritional status, mortality, and morbidity of children aged 6 to 60 months in Niger: a cluster randomized trial.

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CONTEXT: Ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs) are an important component of effective outpatient treatment of severe wasting.

Isanaka S Nombela N Djibo A Poupard M Van Beckhoven D Gaboulaud V Guerin PJ Grais RF
JAMA 2009 Jan 21; 301(3); 277-85. doi: 10.1001/jama.2008.1018. Epub 2009 01 23

Assessing the impact of the introduction of the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children: secondary data analysis.

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OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to assess the impact of adopting the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children com

Isanaka S Villamor E Shepherd S Grais RF
Pediatrics 2009 Jan ; 123(1); e54-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2008-1375. Epub 2009 02 06