Africa as a continent is subdivided into different regions, Northern, Eastern, Western, Middle and Southern Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa refers to the combined Eastern, Middle, Southern, and Western regions. These subdivisions are important as the disease and cancer spectrum found in specific regions is quite different. Similar to the differences found between Africa and the developed world, canc...

Most of Africa is focused on alleviating poverty and starvation, so IT practice does not enjoy the prominence in Africa. However, developing the IT Industry, and ensuring that practitioners are professional, will provide an industry that can create wealth. After a brief discussion on what is meant by professionalism, this paper will explore the issues relating to IT in Africa, especially South ...

Tigecycline, the first of a new class of broad-spectrum antibiotics (the glycylcyclines), has been licensed in South Africa for the parenteral treatment of adult patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAIs) and complicated skin and soft-tissue infections (cSSTIs). This article serves as a summary of the guideline on the appropriate use of tigecycline, published in mid-2010 as a...

Authors Landon Myer MA, MPhil, PhD Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Regina Mlobeli, BA, Hons Women’s Health Research Unit, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Di Cooper, PhD Women’s Health Research Unit, School of Public Health & Family Medici...

Applied Biodiversity Research Division, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Claremont 7735, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, South Africa, Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa, Tropical Biodiversity Section, Museo Tridenti...

OBJECTIVES To assess the relation between the number of clinical trials conducted and respective new drug approvals in India and South Africa. DESIGN Construction and analysis of a comprehensive database of completed randomised controlled clinical trials based on clinicaltrials.gov from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2010 and drug approval data from 2006 until 2013 for India and South Africa. ...

Ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) is a common ocular surface tumor with an increased incidence in African countries (3.4 and 3.0 cases/year/100,000). Despite its potential for vision loss and death, OSSN remains largely neglected by both eye and HIV care programs in Africa. The purpose of this review is to identify the barriers to timely diagnosis and early interventions for OSSN in Afri...

This paper gives an overview of the difficulties associated with the design of hard rock pillars in South African mines. Recent examples of large scale pillar collapses in South Africa suggest that these were caused by weak partings which traversed the pillars. Currently two different methods are used to determine the strength of pillars, namely, empirical equations derived from back analyses o...

The aim of this study was to define various traditional dairy products most widely consumed in Africa and Algeria. In this study, we provided examples of these products along with their production and fermentation procedures. Fermented foods are the primary source of nutrition for rural and urban communities. In Algeria, cheese is still made in the traditional way at the family level. The Jben ...

A40 Persistent circulation of highly divergent HIV-1M lineages in the Congo Basin Region M. Tongo, J.R. Dorfman, Tulio de Oliveira, D.P. Martin, Africa Centre for Population Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Division of Computational Biology and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Medical Research and Stud...