Infectious diseases
- Treatment outcomes for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- D. Ettehad;H.S. Schaaf;J.A. Seddon / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2012
- This paper aims to assess existing evidence for the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in children. It highlights that MDR clinical management is especially challenging becaus...
- Hygiene: new hopes, new horizons
- V. Curtis;W. Schmidt;S. Luby / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2011
- Evidence shows the benefit of improved hygiene (e.g. improved hand-washing and safe stool disposal). However, although promotion of safe hygiene is the single most cost-effective means of preventin...
- Mobile phones: exceptional tools for HIV/AIDS, health, and crisis management
- Richard Lester;Sarah Karanja / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2008
- This article, published by The Lancet, argues that with mobile telephones reaching people in Africa’s cities, towns, villages, and countrysides more rapidly than anywhere else in the world, they...
- Water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- L. Fewtrell; R.B. Kaufmann; D. Kay / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2005
- This article, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, reviews and analyses the evidence on effectiveness of interventions to reduce illness through improvements in drinking water, sanitation faci...
- HIV/AIDS: sex, abstinence, and behaviour change
- T. Barnett; J. Parkhurst / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2005
- This opinion piece, published by Lancet Infectious Diseases, argues that an abstinence approach to HIV does not take into account the balance between contextual and environmental factors and individua...
- Estimates of world-wide distribution of child deaths from acute respiratory infections
- B.G. Williams; E. Gouws; C. Boschi-Pinto; J. Bryce / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2002
- Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are among the leading causes of childhood mortality in poor countries. It is important to estimate reliably the number of children worldwide who die from ARI and to...
- Role of a sentinel surveillance system in the context of global surveillance of infectious diseases
- I. Arita; M. Nakane; K. Kojima; N. Yoshihara / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2004
- Recommended reading
- This article, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, examines the effectiveness of a sentinel surveillance system targeting selected infectious diseases across South America, Africa and Asia. T...
- Drugs for HIV in South Africa
- C. Kerr / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2004
- This short article presents the main features of the a South African major plan to provide antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to hundreds of thousands of HIV-infected patients.Findings include:abou...
- Reinforced prevention efforts for HIV
- K. Ahmad / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2004
- This short article presents trends in the evolution of the HIV/AIDS epidemic around the world and offers some general advice.Findings and conclusions include:the countries in Eastern Europe...
- Problems and solutions for the Stop TB Partnership
- S.M. Blower; C.L. Daley / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2002
- Recommended reading
- One of the operational goals of the Stop-TB partnership movement is based on World Health Organization (WHO)-determined targets to detect, by 2005, 70 per cent of new smear-positive cases under DOTS, ...
