Pattern of in-patient neurologic review: An experience from a Tertiary Hospital North-Western Nigeria.

Background: Increase in neurologic diseases burden has increased the demand for neurology services globally, despite the shortcomings of shortage and maldistribution of neurologists worldwide, including Sub-Saharan Africa. This has placed significant pressure on the few available neurologists to provide optimal and effective services in our resource-challenged settings.

Methods: Neurology referrals were prospectively reviewed over a period of 3 months.

Once-daily antiretroviral therapy among treatment-experienced Muslim patients fasting for the month of Ramadan.

Many countries with a considerable burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Africa and Asia also have a substantial Muslim population. Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) has led to reductions in HIV morbidity and mortality in those areas. However, for ART to remain durably effective its provision should be adapted to local and religious customary practices such as Ramadan fasting.