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

...ing a soy bean and peanut formula called “kwash pap” because it is used to help malnourished children with kwashiorkor. It is remarkable how well most of these patients do after a few week...

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

... effectiveness of IPTi. The study I'm dying to see is the effect of IPT in HIV-infected infants and children. Is it something that should be added to their routine care? Abstract: Purpose ...

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

... 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 sever...

4. Staff supervision and financial incentives improve in-hospital mortality in childhood malaria
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

Bottom line: In this government hospital in Guinea-Bissau, mortality from childhood was reduced by 50% in an intervention that monitored and supervised staff supervision to guidelines, and also provid

5. Baby Hannah
(Stories/Patients)

...little, and her mother died last year. We don't know much about her, but Talatu had frequent seizures in childhood and had always been thought a bit strange. She was impulsive and sometimes violent to...

6. Intradermal rabies vaccine safe and effective in Thai children
(Journal Club/Public Health)

RESULTS: In school-age children in Thailand, a pre-exposure immunization regimen of 3 intradermal doses of PCECV produced adequate immune responses. After primary vaccination, all subjects developed R

7. Should critically ill patients be routinely transfused to a normal haemoglobin level? (SCQ)
(Journal Club/Structured questions)

...ld critically ill patients be routinely transfused to a normal haemoglobin level? Archives of Disease in Childhood 2007;92:1038-1039; doi:10.1136/adc.2007.124412...

8. Examining once daily gentamicin in the treatment of UTI in infants and children
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

This article not only gives us some answers to the question, "can gentimicin be given once daily in children with UTI?", but it also takes us through the process of how to research and answe

9. Practical guide to managing warts and molluscum
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

...s. Warts, molluscum and things that go bump on the skin: a practical guide. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice 2007;92:ep119-ep124; doi:10.1136/adc.2007.122317. Full ...

10. Success of ART in Cambodian children: results at 12 months
(Journal Club/HIV)

This article reports on results of ART in 212 Cambodian children with median age of 6 years old. Most were on stavudine, lamivudine, and nevirapine.  Median CD4 at baseline was 6 (!). The o

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

... mortality." The anatomy of a malaria disaster: drug policy choice and mortality in African children. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2007; 7:739-748....

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

...ercially 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 of the RT...

13. Zinc and child mortality: what is known?
(Journal Club/Public Health)

This editorial review looks at the evidence that zinc reduces child mortality, including two recent articles in The Lancet. Both studies showed a reduction in mortality, at least in children older tha

14. Pediatric Tuberculosis and HIV/TB Coinfection: Two online, multimedia presentation (free CME :-)
(News/News for Doctors)

... audio provides information to strengthen the diagnostic and treatment skills of clinicians working with children with latent TB infection (LTBI) or active TB disease. This course also includes extens...

15. Putting Typhoid Vaccination on the Global Health Agenda (NEJM)
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

Enteric fever or typhoid cases have increased significantly at our hospital in the past 2 years, both in children and adults, with many cases  of intestinal perforation and not a few deaths. This

16. Spring of Life Club Video
(Departments/HIV/AIDS Care)

...unseling (VCT), and community-building activities. Here is a short (6 minute) video with pictures of the children in the Kids Club, as well as a few shots of the adults' Spring of Life club meeting. T...

17. Kids Club
(News/HIV/AIDS News)

...are orphans. Each of them is taking antiretroviral drugs, living a healthy life and going to school. The children always look forward to coming to Spring of Life for this event. It brings hope and enc...

18. Safety and efficacy of once-daily HAART for children
(Journal Club/HIV)

"HIV-1–infected children naive to efavirenz were treated with a combination of efavirenz, abacavir, didanosine, and lamivudine in an observational, prospective, single-center study. "

19. Blinded, randomized trial of community-based zinc supplementation shows reduction in diarrhea
(Journal Club/Public Health)

"We included 1712 children aged between 6 and 48 months in a randomized double blind study in rural area comprising of 11 villages." Children received either placebo or zinc supplementation.

20. Lower rates of purulent CSF found after introduction of Hib vaccine in Ghana
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...ae Type B Conjugate Vaccine Into Routine Immunization In Ghana And Its Impact On Bacterial Meningitis In Children Younger Than Five Years. Ped. Inf. Dis. J. 26(4):356-358, April 2007...