Dissemination of reproductive health knowledge by questions and answers through telephone hotline: a feasibility study in Myanmar.

This study was conducted to determine the feasibility of disseminating reproductive health (RH) information to the general public of Myanmar in a confidential, anonymous and interactive way through a telephone hotline. We carried out a cross-sectional study using a short questionnaire interview with the RH hotline callers and analyzing sample audio recordings of conversations. The hotline was advertised in print media.

Pneumocystis carinii infection among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected Myanmar patients.

A total of 60 HIV infected patients complaining of dry cough for at least two weeks and attending the Out-patient Department of the Specialist Hospital, Waibargi, were screened for Pneumocystis carinii. Induced sputum samples were examined with Giemsa and Gomori silver methenamine stains. P.

The effect of mefloquine-artemether compared with quinine on patients with complicated falciparum malaria.

30 pairs of patients with complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria (with anaemia, hyperpyrexia, jaundice or more than 5% of erythrocytes parasitized) were studied. Patients with cerebral signs and symptoms were excluded. One group of patients was treated with oral mefloquine (750 mg) and artemether (600 mg by injection, 200 mg initially and 100 mg every 12 h).

The use of immunofluorescence to evaluate the efficacy of malarial chemoprophylaxis.

338 subjects occupationally exposed to high levels of malaria transmission were randomly assigned to three groups. Group A received one tablet of mefloquine (250 mg) and one tablet of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine once a week, group B received two tablets of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine once a week and group C received one tablet of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (each containing sulfadoxine 500 mg and pyrimethamine 25 mg) twice a week. Blood films for malaria parasites and filter paper strips for serological study were taken before and at 5 and 12 months after the chemoprophylaxis.

Oral rehydration therapy in the home by village mothers in Burma.

Acceptability and effectiveness of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) when given by mothers in the home under village conditions was investigated in six (two control and four test) communities at Htauk-kyant near Rangoon, Burma. The control and test village communities had populations of 2085 and 4278 respectively, of which 218 and 623 were children under five. In the test villages, Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) were made constantly available by providing each household with one packet of ORS, which was replenished whenever a used packet was returned to the field workers during their daily surveillance rounds.

Isoenzyme characterization of chloroquine-resistant isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from Burma.

Sixty isolates of Plasmodium falciparum collected from hospital in-patients in Rangoon and out-patients from villages near Rangoon were tested in vitro for chloroquine sensitivity and then cultured to carry out starch gel electrophoresis of the following parasite enzyme: glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI) (EC.5.3.