1. Good for journal club
(Comments)

...good for journal club. Simple, with a practical application. Could also be duplicated fairly easily in an African hospital....

2. Dealing with enterocutaneous fistulas at Evangel
(Stories/Staff stories)

We now have four patients in the hospital who have a condition called enterocutaneous fistula. They all had surgery at other hospitals for various problems but developed a leak in their intestines so

3. Encouraging news on intermittent preventive therapy in infancy (IPTi) for malaria
(Journal Club/Malaria)

...ine-pyrimethamine appears to add a valuable tool to the malaria-control armamentarium in endemic areas of Africa. Routine monitoring of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine efficacy will be required to guide fut...

4. Better first line treatment needed for children with severe pneumonia
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

This Lancet article reports an important observational study from South Africa. The authors investigated 358 children aged 1–59 months, regardless of HIV status, who presented with WHO-defined s

5. Cholera: A New Homeland in Africa?
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

"The reported incidence of indigenous cholera in sub-Saharan Africa in 2005 ... was 95 times higher than the reported incidence in Asia ... and 16,600 times higher than the reported incidence in

6. Topical zinc cream may improve sensitivity of TB skin testing
(Journal Club/TB)

...ficiency is prevalent. This is a great little study that would be relatively easy to duplicate in an African setting. If the blood zinc levels are to be determined, there would probably be substa...

7. Avian influenza in Africa -- still headed for disaster?
(Journal Club/Avian Influenza)

This is a short, sobering article that all of us in Africa should read. Perhaps the pandemic will never develop, but the signs are still worrisome. Maybe there is still time to correct some of the def

8. The realities of antiretroviral therapy rollout: a broad look
(Journal Club/HIV)

...t the "rollout" or scaling up of antiretroviral treatment in developing countries, mainly South Africa. See the full table of contents for articles including How Far Should They Walk...

9. The anatomy of a malaria disaster: Modeling malaria epidemics and child mortality
(Journal Club/Malaria)

...r prophylaxis. (read more ...)Summary: "Drug-resistant malaria is a substantial problem throughout Africa and most countries must regularly adapt their antimalarial drug policies to ensure a co...

10. Malaria vaccine -- some encouraging news
(Journal Club/Malaria)

...n be commercially produced at a reasonable cost, it could be a major boost for the health and survival of African children, with an impact on health care systems and economics as well. Safety ...

11. Some poliomyelitis in Nigeria comes from mutated vaccine virus
(Journal Club/Public Health)

According to WHO, says the New York Times, some cases of poliomyelitis in Nigeria are caused by a mutated vaccine virus. Though the Times says "Nigeria is fighting an unusual outbreak of polio ca

12. BBC Headline: "HIV treatment 'failing' in Africa." Do you agree?
(Journal Club/HIV)

A BBC news headline reported yesterday, "HIV treatment 'failing' in Africa". The article goes on to say, "More than a third of patients on HIV medication in sub-Saharan Africa die or di

13. Strategies for prevention of Group B Strep infection in newborns
(Journal Club/Ob/Gyn)

...y, I'm putting this study forward to ask a question: what is the role of GBS screening and prophylaxis in Africa and other low-resource settings? If you have some data or opinions, leave a comment to ...

14. "Syndromic management" may be, well, useless (?) for chlamydia and N. gonorrhea in Batswana women
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...he study was not very large. Also, the results in Botswana may not be the same as those in other areas of Africa. Still, the results merit careful examination since the syndromic approach is widely us...

15. Bacteremia in hospitalized patients in the Gambia
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

...link below to the full article (free). Bacteraemia in patients admitted to an urban hospital in West Africa. BMC Infect Dis. 2007; 7: 2....

16. The dangers of attacking disease programmes for developing countries.
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...s latest Personal View, he claims that "disease specific global programmes [are] not the way to help Africa," instead that they cause "big problems for recipients," and that money ...

17. Africans die in pain because of fears of opiate addiction
(Journal Club/Public Health)

Extract "Attempts to improve palliative care services in Africa are being hampered by the fear that many African professionals have of using morphine therapeutically and by poor access to t

18. Getting ready for avian influenza in Africa
(Journal Club/Avian Influenza)

...ared in Nigeria in January 2006. The potential devastation from emergence of a pandemic strain in Africa has led to a sudden shift of public health focus to pandemic preparedness. ...

19. Making it known: – The AIDS Cube: rapid unforgettable learning
(AIDSLink/Resources)

...t the messages of its pictures. "Usable in any country, every country in west, east & southern Africa where it has been demonstrated so far has ordered copies. The HIV/AIDS cube is produced...

20. Managing a community-based organization--New Resources
(AIDSLink/Resources)

...rdquo; Written by Marta Chechetto-Salles and Yvette Geyer for the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), it is available at: www.idasa.org.za/gbOutputFiles.asp?WriteContent=Y&RI...