Experiences of Australian transgender, gender-diverse and non-binary patients accessing and receiving gender-affirming care.

Background And Objectives: It is important for general practitioners (GPs) to understand the barriers and facilitators that transgender, gender-diverse and non-binary patients (TGDNB) experience when accessing health care. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of patients accessing and receiving gender-affirming care.

Method: Patients who attended a sexual health clinic for gender-affirming care (GAC) were invited to participate in a feedback questionnaire that explored the referral process, access to care and perceptions of the clinic.

Bronchiectasis in children in a high HIV and tuberculosis prevalence setting.

Background: Bronchiectasis, a chronic suppurative lung condition, is a largely neglected disease, especially in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs), from which there is a paucity of data. Post-infectious causes are more common in LMICs, while in high-income countries, inborn errors of immunity (IEIs), recurrent aspiration, primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) and cystic fibrosis are more common. Children living with HIV (CLWH), especially those who are untreated, are at increased risk of bronchiectasis.

Safety and yield of sputum induction for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children in a tertiary hospital in Ghana.

Background: Induced sputum (IS) is a sampling technique for obtaining lower airway samples for microbial investigations, including GeneXpert and culture for microbiological confirmation of .

Objectives: To investigate the safety and yield of IS in children admitted to a tertiary hospital in Ghana with presumed pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB).

Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study was carried out in children aged 3 months - 14 years at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana, over the 6-month period January - June 2022.

Schistosomiasis in the Philippines: A Comprehensive Review of Epidemiology and Current Control.

is an infectious parasitic disease caused by infection with the blood fluke , which is endemic in China, small pockets of Indonesia, and the Philippines. Of the three countries, the prevalence of infection is the highest in the Philippines, despite decades of mass drug administration (MDA). As a zoonosis with 46 potential mammalian definitive hosts and a snail intermediate host, the control and eventual elimination of requires management of these animal hosts in addition to new interventions for the human hosts, including health education and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure.

FDG PET/CT of Atypical Myeloid Sarcoma After CAR T-Cell Therapy.

A 23-year-old man with a history of Ph-Like B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) with JAK2 rearrangement presented with innumerable skin lesions developing over 1 week. Before presentation, he had multiple relapses of his B-ALL and underwent autologous UCD-19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. Lesions appeared 1.