From time to time in African infants one meets a condition generally known to dermatologists as dermatitis gangrenosa infantum, in which a characteristic destruction of a large area of skin occurs. It may start with a small ...

Forty two cases of acute poisoning were studied retrospectively over a two year period (1990 to 1991, inclusive) in the paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU), at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. This formed 8,6 pc of the ...

A cross-sectional sero epidemiological study to detect the presence of antibodies to polio virus types 1,2 and 3 was undertaken. A total of 437 infants with an average of 40 subjects per province was enrolled in this study. ...

The impact of a combination of PHC intervention activities on child survival, growth, morbidity and mortality was assessed in three selected rural communities (Gomoa Fetteh, Gomoa Onyadze/Otsew Jukwa and Gomoa Mprumem) in ...

As the AIDS epidemic puts additional strains on the already overburdened health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa, it becomes more important to estimate the cost of the epidemic in terms of health personnel and drug ...

Fifty eight children underwent rigid brochoscopy under general anaesthesia for suspected aspirated foreign bodies. There were 36 boys and 22 girls with a mean age of 18 months. Physical examination showed decreased breath ...

In this survey a total of2 783 secondary school students of both sexes, mean age 15,5 years, from randomly selected schools in both rural and urban areas of Zimbabwe were studied using a self report questionnaire. The ...

In African countries tuberculosis remains one of the major health problems. Tuberculin testing is widely used as a screening test for its detection and B.C.G. vaccination is one of the means for its control. The present ...

That liver disease in Africa is a major health problem is well known; less well known and understood is the inter-relation of the various possible etiological factors. Higginson, et al., in a study done on liver biopsies ...

Intestinal intolerance to sugars is now well established as a cause of diarrhea and failure to thrive in children. It is assuming increased importance now that it is realized that a variety of insults to the gut can lead ...