Objective : To describe the clinical features of infants admitted with HIV-related pneumonia and to describe antibiotic use in relation to recommended treatment guidelines. Design: Case series. Setting: Paediatric medical ...

Objectives: To assess how people living with HIV and AIDS reacted to the knowledge of the infection and hovv they are coping with stigma and discrimination. Settings: The study was conducted in the two high density urban ...

Twenty infants ami young children admitted with severe metabolic acidosis and a positive history of ‘muti’ ingestion were investigated. All had accompanying gastroenteritis and significant dehydration. Biochemical data was ...

Objective: To determine the proportion of deaths, characteristics of children and risk factors for mortality within 24hours of admission to a Paediatric hospital in Harare. Study Design'. Prospective cohort study. Settings: ...

Objective: To investigate the vitamin A status of pregnant mothers, lactatating mothers, preterm and term infants who were being fed exclusively on breast milk. Design: Systematic/cross sectional. Setting: Vitamin A research ...

Objective: To evaluate the extent to which increase in iodine requirement was achieved in pregnant women who attended the antenatal clinic at Harare Central Hospital. Design: Cross sectional. Setting: Samples were collected ...

Infants younger than one year of age with RhabdomyosarcTJmrr'appear to have worse prognosis compared to older children due partly to high rates of local failure. We report a 4 months old infant with orbital rhabdomyosarcoma ...

Objective'. To determine the prevalence of anaemia, iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in school children who were born in a national HIV prevention programme. Design'. This was a community based cross-sectional ...