BACKGROUND In Tanzania, malaria is the major cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting for about 30% of all hospital admissions and around 15% of all hospital deaths. Severe anaemia and cerebral malaria are the two main causes of death due to malaria in Tanga, Tanzania. METHODS This was a prospective observational hospital-based study conducted from October 2004 to September 2005. Consent ...

BACKGROUND A unique feature of previous Ebola outbreaks has been the relative sparing of children. For the first time, an out break of an unusual illness-Ebola haemorrhagic fever occurred in Northern Uganda Gulu district. OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiologic and clinical aspects of hospitalised children and adolescents on the isolation wards. METHODS A retrospective descriptive survey o...

BACKGROUND In malaria endemic areas, fever has been used as an entry point for presumptive treatment of malaria. At present, the decrease in malaria transmission in Africa implies an increase in febrile illnesses related to other causes among underfives. Moreover, it is estimated that more than half of the children presenting with fever to public clinics in Africa do not have a malaria infectio...

Dermal contamination from products such as pesticide formulations may be measured by adding a fluorescent dye as a tracer, and photographing the glow of the dye on the skin under ultraviolet light. The Fluorescence Interactive Video Exposure System (FIVES) fluorescence monitor, developed at the Health and Safety Laboratory, uses calibrations of intensity of glow against surface concentration of...

SETTING Community health care providers (CHCPs) in 40 rural community clinics of Comilla district, Bangladesh, were trained using a newly developed case-management job aid based on the World Health Organization Integrated Management of Childhood Illness and a communication guide. OBJECTIVES To assess 1) the change in knowledge of the CHCPs after training; 2) the absolute quality of care provi...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Integrated vector control especially use of insecticide-treated bed nets have been reported as effective malaria preventive strategies. This study aimed at documenting factors that influence regular use of insecticide-treated nets in under-fives and impact of vector control methods on malaria outcome (severe malaria prevalence and mortality) in under-fives presenting in a te...

Objective 1. To study the adherence of HSPs to IMNCI guidelines for managing childhood diseases. 2. To ascertain the knowledge regarding danger signs of under fives’ in study population Material and Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out in a district of Panchkula in 2010. Multistage random sampling was used for selection of study population. 588 parents of under-five children were in...

In 1987 the nutritional status of Zambian children under 5 years of age was studied in 3 regions around Kamoto Hospital with the objective of exploring the prevalence if malnutrition and contributing factors such as maternal education and immunization status. Jumbe was within easy reach of the hospital with a relatively high standard of living. Masumba and Kakumbi were different areas in one r...