HIV therapy in pregnancy-data support WHO recommendations
In an observational cohort study from Côte d'Ivoire, François Dabis and colleagues report on prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission among women receiving antiretroviral therapy according to World Health Organization recommendations.
Citation: Tonwe-Gold B, Ekouevi DK, Viho I, Amani-Bosse C, Toure S, et al. (2007) Antiretroviral treatment and prevention of peripartum and postnatal HIV transmission in West Africa: Evaluation of a two-tiered approach. PLoS Med 4(8): e257.
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CONTACT:
François Dabis
INSERM Unité 593
Insitut de Santé Publique Epidémiologie et Développement (ISPED)
Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2
146 rue Léo Saignat
Bordeaux, 33076
France
+33 557571436
+33 557574528 (fax)
francois.dabis@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr
Defining childhood severe falciparum malaria for intervention studies
The accepted definition of severe malaria is appropriate for clinical purposes, but Philip Bejon and colleagues show its specificity in clinical trials may be improved by a parasite density threshold and by excluding children with certain conditions. The article is discussed in a related perspective.
Citation: Bejon P, Berkley JA, Mwangi T, Ogada E, Mwangi I, et al. (2007) Defining childhood severefalciparum malaria for interventionstudies. PLoS Med 4(8): e251.
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CONTACT:
Philip Bejon
University of Oxford
Nuffield Department of Medicine
John Radcliffe Hospital
Roosevelt Drive
Oxford, OX2 7BN
United Kingdom
+44 191 284 1186
pbejon@well.ox.ac.uk
Related PLoS Medicine Perspective article:
Citation: Anstey NM, Price RN (2007) Improving case definitions for severe malaria. PLoS Med 4(8): e267.
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CONTACT:
Nicholas Anstey
Menzies School of Health Research
Division of Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases
PO Box 41096
Casuarina, Northern Territory 0811
Australia
+61 8 8922 8932
+61 8 8922 7876 (fax)
anstey@menzies.edu.au
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