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1. BACKGROUND In 2002, the Philippines changed its antimalarial drug policy to the combination treatment, CQ+ Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as 1st-line treatment and artemether-lumefantrine as 2nd-line treatment. The Department of Health (DOH) prescribed the use of artemether-lumefantrine (AL)
Study design and participants The study was conducted in four provinces (Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hunan) of China, which contains Haiyang city, Rushan city, Shimen County, Chen Cang District, Qishan County, Taigu County and Qi County. 6/8 months children were recruited in this study,
Severe pneumonia is a serious infection in children which requires timely intervention. Management of severe pneumonia is done by appropriate antibiotics and supportive care. WHO recommendation is to use injection ampicillin four times a day for 3-5 days and injection gentamicin once a day for 3-5
Diagnosis: The diagnosis of Alcoholic hepatitis is made by the following criteria (12)
I. Chronic active alcohol abuse - >80 grams in males and > 60 grams in females for > 5 years for developing Alcoholic Cirrhosis (13) Alcohol use will be evaluated with the AUDIT score (EASL guidelines (14) II.
Vaccination is the best way to prevent severe rotavirus disease and the deadly, dehydrating diarrhea that it causes. However, given only moderate efficacy in the first year of life and a possible further decline in immunity, it is considered a top priority by public health experts to evaluate the
The "hygiene hypothesis", which has been proposed to explain the observed increase of the incidence of T1D, relies on experimental evidence acquired in mouse models. However, epidemiological data are still lacking to validate this hypothesis in man. This is critical, because -in opposition with the
Fifty infants per group will be enrolled (n=150) and randomly divided in three groups, from those identified in selected villages in the catchment area of the Kikoneni Health Clinic in southern coastal Kenya, about 2 hours south of Mombasa. All children whose caregivers agree to participate in the
During the last 6 years Zanzibar has undergone a dramatic change in malaria epidemiology and burden of disease, with a marked decline of Plasmodium falciparum malaria among febrile children from approximately 30% to 1% or below and a reduction of crude child mortality of 50%. Millions of children in
Cholera is an important public health problem worldwide, remaining endemic in most of the developing world at the same time causing outbreaks in areas where lapses in sanitation occur. In 2005, 131 943 cholera cases and 2272 deaths were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) with more
Study design: The study was a double blind randomised clinical trial using zinc and placebo using multivitamin base.Study subjects: Fifty six children of both sex aged between 12-59 months were studied in the study ward who attended the Dhaka Hospital of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease
Background The case-fatality rate of measles in developing countries is still high, particularly in infants. It is estimated that measles is responsible for more than one million deaths per year, and that most of these deaths are due to complications of the disease.
Most of the severe complications