A Current Bibliography on African Affairs - Baywood Publishing

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strengthening TB treatment programs, effective infection control strategies are urgently
needed to reduce the transmission of MDR and XDR TB.
1245. Anonymous. CLINICAL SIGNS THAT PREDICT SEVERE ILLNESS IN
CHILDREN UNDER AGE 2 MONTHS: A MULTICENTRE STUDY. The Lancet. 2008,
371(9607):135-142.
Neonatal illness, particularly in the first week of life, is a leading cause of death
worldwide. Improving identification of young infants who require referral for severe illness
is of major public-health importance. A single simple algorithm could be recommended for
identifying severe illness in infants aged 0-2 months who are brought to health facilities.
Further research is needed on screening newborn children for illness in the community
during routine home visits.
1246. Anonymous. EVERY DEATH COUNTS: USE OF MORTALITY AUDIT
DATA FOR DECISION MAKING TO SAVE THE LIVES OF MOTHERS, BABIES,
AND CHILDREN IN SOUTH AFRICA. The Lancet. 2008, 371(9620):1294-1304.
South Africa is one of the few developing countries with a national confidential inquiry
into maternal deaths. 164 health facilities obtain audit data for stillbirths and neonatal
deaths, and a new audit network does so for child deaths. Three separate reports have been
published, providing valuable information about avoidable causes of death for mothers,
babies, and children. These reports make health-system recommendations, many of which
overlap and are intertwined with the scarcity of progress in addressing HIV/AIDS. The
leaders of these three reports have united to prioritize actions to save the lives of South
Africa’s mothers, babies, and children. The country is off-track for the health-related
Millennium Development Goals.
1247. Anonymous. PROVIDER-INITIATED HIV TESTING AND COUNSELING
OF TB PATIENTS—LIVINGSTONE DISTRICT, ZAMBIA, SEPTEMBER 2004–
DECEMBER 2006. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2008, 57(11):285-289.
Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common cause of death from infectious disease in
the world after human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
(HIV/AIDS). Immunosuppressed HIV-infected persons are highly susceptible to TB
disease, and countries in sub-Saharan Africa have the highest TB incidence rates, primarily
because of the HIV epidemic. These findings demonstrate the practicality and acceptance
of PITC and HIV rapid testing and support the need to expand this program to TB clinical
settings in Zambia and other countries with high rates of TB and HIV.
1248. Ansaldi, F. et al. MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CASE-CONTROL
APPROACHES FOR MANAGEMENT OF AN OUTBREAK OF HEPATITIS A IN
LIGURIA, ITALY. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene. 2007, 48(3):103-108.
Hepatitis A remains an important public health problem in low endemicity areas,
because of the social and economic high burden of cyclical outbreaks. In this study we
described an outbreak of HAV infection occurred in the city of Genoa and in its proximity
and the viral circulation in the post-epidemic period. In order to identify risk factors
associated to the illness and to determine the source of infection and the dynamics of virus