[Immunization programme in urban areas in Cameroon: a case study of the Djoungolo Health District].

Introduction: Cameroon's cities have a growing concentration of target children not adequately covered by routine immunization programmes.

Methods: We conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study, based on exhaustive sampling of legal health care facilities offering routine immunization services in the health district of Djoungolo (city of Yaoundé). The evaluation of the immunization programmes was based on the "Reaching Every District" approach.

Integrating Cervical Cancer Screening with HIV Care in Cameroon: Comparative Risk Analysis of Cervical Disease in HIV-Infected Women Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy to Women in the General Population.

Background: While the effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) on natural history of cervical lesions remains controversial, resource limited countries need to understand the relevance of their own data to their settings. We compared the risk of cervical disease in HAART-experienced women with that in women in the general population of Cameroon.

Methods: A retrospective cross sectional survey of women aged 35 years and above, attending a voluntary screening campaign for cervical cancer at the Nkongsamba Regional Hospital in Cameroon between February and May 2014.

[Epidemiologiy of obesity among university students in Douala, Cameroon].

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of obesity, its risk factors, and its health risks among students of the University of Douala.

Methods: In April, 2011, 2696 students volunteered to participate in a screening campaign for diabetes, high blood pressure (HBP), and obesity. Their physical activity (PA) level was also evaluated.

Evaluating the utility of early laboratory monitoring of antiretroviral-induced haematological and hepatic toxicity in HIV-infected persons in Cameroon.

Background: The antiretroviral therapy (ART) program of Cameroon recommends routine laboratory monitoring of haematological toxicity if a regimen contains zidovudine (AZT) and of hepatotoxicity for NVP-containing regimens on the 15th day after ART initiation. This study aimed to assess the relevance of this repeated laboratory measurements considered to be precocious, inaccessible and unavailable in a resource limited setting.

Methods: A retrospective cohort of HIV-infected patients of age 15 years and above enrolled for first line ART at The Regional Hospital of Nkongsamba in Cameroon.

The lipid profile of HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in a rural Cameroonian population.

Background: Long term use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWHIV) is associated with disturbances in blood lipids which should be monitored. More data on such disturbances are needed in Cameroon to persuade the country program to institute their routine monitoring. We then sought to determine the prevalence and timing of dyslipidaemia in PLWHIV and receiving ART in a predominantly rural Cameroonian setting.