Simple tuberculosis (TB) treatment monitoring tools are needed.
OBJECTIVE: We investigated the association between immune response and mortality in four HIV African programs supported by Médecins Sans Frontières.
DESIGN: Multicentric retrospective cohort study.
BACKGROUND: Malaria is a leading cause of mortality, particularly in sub-Saharan African children. Prompt and efficacious treatment is important as patients may progress within a few hours to severe and possibly fatal disease.
OBJECTIVE: To describe medical care and surgical outcome after functional reconstructive surgery in late-presenting patients who already had at least one prior operation.
BACKGROUND: Use of cholera vaccines in response to epidemics (reactive vaccination) may provide an effective supplement to traditional control measures.
BACKGROUND: Ensuring long-term adherence to therapy is essential for the success of HIV treatment. As access to viral load monitoring and genotyping is poor in resource-limited settings, a simple tool to monitor adherence is needed.
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown the benefits of ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) distribution in reducing the incidence and prevalence of severe acute malnutrition.
BACKGROUND: In African children, distinguishing severe falciparum malaria from other severe febrile illnesses with coincidental Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia is a major challenge. P.
OBJECTIVE: The evaluation of HIV treatment programs is generally based on an estimation of survival among patients receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART).
BACKGROUND: The 2007 WHO algorithm for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) culture was evaluated in a HIV prevalent area of Kenya.
