The frequency and magnitude of growth failure in a group of HIV-infected children in Cameroon

Andreas Chiabi, Jacqueline Lebela, Marie kobela, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Marie Thérèse Obama, Tetanye Ekoe

Growth impairment is a major manifestation of HIV infection in children and has been implicated as a major contributor to both morbidity and mortality. This study the first to be done in this setting, was aimed at comparing the growth of HIV infected children to that of non-infected children in t ...

Only the 300 first characters of this abstract are displayed here - 25 January 2012

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Purchasing power of civil servant health workers in Mozambique

Fátima Ferrinho, Marta Amaral, Giuliano Russo, Paulo Ferrinho

Health workers’ purchasing power is an important consideration in the development of strategies for health workforce development. This work explores the purchasing power variation of Mozambican public sector health workers, between 1999 and 2007. In general, the calculated purchasing power increase ...

Only the 300 first characters of this abstract are displayed here - 24 January 2012

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Africa 2010 in retrospect: hits and misses

Robert Davis - 26 December 2010

This editorial reviews progress and setbacks in Africa's main public health programmes, especially AIDS, malaria and vaccination, then looks at cross cutting issues like health care financing and advocacy

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Internal supravesical hernia - a rare cause of intestinal obstruction: report of two cases

Mahdi Bouassida, Selim Sassi, Hassen Touinsi, Helmi Kallel, Mohamed Mongi Mighri, Fathi Chebbi, Mechaal Ben Ali, Khaled Bouzeidi, Sadok Sassi

Supravesical hernias develop at the supravesical fossa between the remnants of the urachus and the left or right umbilical artery. They are exceptional and are often the cause of intestinal obstructio..

Only the 200 first characters of this abstract are displayed here - 26 January 2012

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