Pneumonia in Goilala.

The clinical syndrome of pneumonia in adults in Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea, has changed from the 1970s to the present. The severe lobar pneumonia commonly diagnosed in young adult men, characteristically from Goilala and living in settlements in Port Moresby, is no longer seen. Today pneumonia in adults is likely to be milder and bronchopneumonic in type.

Artemisinin-naphthoquine combination (ARCO) therapy for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in adults of Papua New Guinea: a preliminary report on safety and efficacy.

Background: The use of anti-malarial drug combinations with artemisinin or with one of its derivatives is now widely recommended to overcome drug resistance in falciparum as well as vivax malaria. The fixed oral dose artemisinin-naphthoquine combination (ANQ, ARCO) is a newer artemisinin-based combination (ACT) therapy undergoing clinical assessment. A study was undertaken to assess the safety, efficacy and tolerability of ANQ combination in areas of multi-drug resistance to generate preliminary baseline data in adult population of Papua New Guinea.

Thiamine (vitamin B1) status of boarding school students in the Southern Region of Papua New Guinea.

Thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) is the major biologically active form of thiamine (vitamin B1). This cross-sectional study assessed whole-blood thiamine pyrophosphate concentration (WBTPPC) in boarding school students in the Southern Region of Papua New Guinea. Sample size for each of the five boarding schools was calculated using the 'proportionate to population size' cluster sampling technique.