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

...ce to guidelines using structured supervision of nurses and doctors, combined with financial incentives, on survival in childhood malaria. Children were randomized to one of two wards, control or inte...

2. Early antiretroviral treatment saves lives in TB/HIV coinfection--Thailand
(Journal Club/HIV)

...e, and so on.  This prospective study looked at a cohort of 329 coinfected patients and examined their survival according to when ARTs were begun. After adjusting for other variables, there was a...

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

...t were on stavudine, lamivudine, and nevirapine.  Median CD4 at baseline was 6 (!). The one year survival of the group was 92%, with 81% having no detectable viral load. Effectiveness...

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

..., and if it can 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. ...

5. 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

6. Depression common in elderly Nigerians
(Journal Club/Public Health)

... tends to be a neglected area in the developing world, perhaps because of the priority of ensuring physical survival. Whatever the causes, this study shows that in the "happiest country in the wo...

7. Shoeboxes
(Blog/Blog)

...in some bigger ways. Here are just a few of the thousands of places to learn more-- Article on child survival from Global Health Council: I don't know anything about the organization, but this ...

8. Isoniazid prophylaxis reduces mortality in HIV-infected South African children
(Journal Club/HIV)

...ere in children in the placebo group." "Conclusions: Prophylaxis with isoniazid has an early survival benefit and reduces incidence of tuberculosis in children with HIV. Prophylaxis may...

9. Short-term mortality and implementation of ART for critically ill HIV-infected children (S Africa)
(Journal Club/HIV)

...discharge. LOI [limitation of intervention] decisions, usually made in PICU, directly influenced short-term survival and the opportunity to commence HAART. Although few critically ill HIV-infected chi...

10. Neonatal tetanus in Nigeria: does it still pose a major threat to neonatal survival?
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...dmit only 3-4 cases yearly. Neonatal tetanus in Nigeria: does it still pose a major threat to neonatal survival? Archives of Disease in Childhood 2007;92:9-10; doi:10.1136/adc.2006.102087....

11. Avian Influenza ("Bird Flu") H5N1
(FAQs/Health and Illness)

...drugs, notably oseltamivir (Tamiflu), may reduce the duration of viral replication and improve prospects of survival, provided they are administered within 48 hours following symptom onset. ...

12. Small randomized trial shows prophylactic antibiotics useful in measles
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

This article reports the results of a randomized, controlled trial of cotrimoxazole vs. placebo in 84 children with measles in Guinea-Bissau. The trial was conducted in 1998 (why are the results comin

13. Highly resistant TB common in rural South African TB/HIV patients
(Journal Club/TB)

...culosis who were tested for HIV were co-infected. 52 of 53 patients with XDR tuberculosis died, with median survival of 16 days from time of diagnosis (IQR 6–37) among the 42 patients with confi...

14. Breastfeeding vs formula, randomized trial shows no easy answers
(Journal Club/HIV)

...ission, but was associated with a lower mortality rate at 7 months. Both strategies had comparable HIV-free survival at 18 months. These results demonstrate the risk of formula feeding to infants in s...

15. Current Issues in PMTCT -- a review (2006)
(Journal Club/HIV)

...ention of MTCT should be monitored not only in terms of HIV transmission avoided but also in terms of child survival." Current issues in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 ...

16. What types of HIV drugs are available? I don't want to be 419
(FAQs/HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers)

...for the doctors. The most important thing to know is that a mistake can ruin someone's chances of long term survival, by creating resistance to the virus. This can be through the wrong dose, through m...

17. Confusing effects of large, perinatal doses of vitamin A in HIV ...
(Journal Club/HIV)

...usions from abstract: "Targeted vitamin A supplementation of HIV-positive children prolongs their survival. [I think this refers to previously studies, not to results from the curr...

18. Simulation suggests initial use of lopinavir-ritonavir in women exposed to single-dose nevirapine
(Journal Club/HIV)

...equential regimen starting with lopinavir-ritonavir-based ART followed by NVP-based ART maximized projected survival and was cost effective in South Africa." Optimizing Treatment for HIV-Infect...

19. Information for medical and pre-med students coming to Evangel
(FAQs/Medical and pre-medical student rotations)

...enza or otherwise. Christians, particularly doctors, need to be prepared (and not prepared with just a self-survival mentality). Habits of the Heart A classic analysis of contemporary American c...

20. 2006 Year To De-Stigmatize Abstinence
(News/HIV/AIDS News)

...on of abstinence is discouraging and a betrayal to the millions of children who depend on this strategy for survival.  We call on UN secretary general Koffi Annan to immediately rectify this anom...