Gender and the cultural epidemiology of tuberculosis among patients in the Central Region of Afghanistan
Tuberculosis is a major global health problem with more than 8.8 million people yearly diagnosed. Though worldwide more men than women are notified with TB, Afghanistan has seen an opposite pattern...

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Peer education in HIV/AIDS prevention, does it make any difference in knowledge and behaviour?
Especially young people in Sub-Saharan Africa are threatened by HIV/AIDS. It is estimated that globally half of all new infections (over 7.000 daily) are occurring among people aged 15-24. Young...

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First assessment visit of HIV-infected children presenting to a governmental paediatric antiretroviral treatment in Malawi : patient characteristics and uptake of highly active antiretroviral therapy
the objectives of this study is to evaluate the effect of introducing the new WHO clinical staging system in a governmental hospital setting without routine availability of CD4 count by describing...

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HIV without borders : a study of results of 22 months of HIV testing at Danané General Hospital, Danané district, Côte d'Ivoir
The data used in this study comes from routine-data collection from several departments offering in-service HIV testing in Danané Hospital. Data was entered from the HIV “counsellor’s registers” into...

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Understanding the patterns of chronic obstetric morbidity and validation of self reports by women living in an urban slum distric of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Obstetric morbidities are common among the women of reproductive age. The extent of obstetric morbidity as a health problem is expressed in terms of the number of morbid events per maternal death.

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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of physicians on HIV/AIDS in Nepal
HIV/AIDS is a major public health, social and economic problem in Nepal. The HIV epidemic is currently concentrated among injecting drug users, female sex workers, labor migrants and men having sex...

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Accessibility to the health system for sans-papiers : comparing the situation in Switzerland on the example of the gynaecological and obstetric needs of undocumented women
As a result of large migration movements due to a globalized market and political instability or war and an increasingly restrictive immigration politics the number and the diversity of undocumented...

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Improving health technology management: development of a model for the implementation of an essential information system for medical devices in low- and middle-income countries
The rapid development in technology and knowledge has lead to significant improvemnts in the performance of health care systems. The constant increase in the variety and complexity of available...

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Practical implementation of a clinical trial in a resource-poor country : from a systematic evaluation of ProCort 1 - Clinical Trial to a general checklist of dos and don'ts for the support of independent and autonomous local research teams
Medical research in developing countries is generally considered important not only to investigate health problems and diseases of this context but also to improve health care in these countries. As...

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Health needs of undocumented migrants and main barriers to health care: a qualitative study of undocumented migrants' health coverage in the Zurich area
The objective of the present study was to assess the health situation and needs of undocumented migrants in the Zurich area and to define recommendations for the improvement of health care of the...

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