[Surgery and HIV in Bangui (Central African Republic)].

Unlabelled: Routine presurgical testing for HIV is a matter of controversy. The risk of intraoperative contamination and postoperative complications, especially opportunistic infections, justifies this practice.

Objective: To assess the real prevalence of HIV in surgical departments in the Central African Republic (CAR) and, more precisely, its impact on surgery patients and staff, as well as measures of prevention.

[Intracranial tuberculoma in Africa, with no available neuroimaging. Case report and review of the literature].

The numerous extrapulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis have been well described. Intracranial localizations, including brain stem tuberculoma, are very rare. The authors report a case of brain tuberculoma in a patient with a history of primary pulmonary tuberculosis successfully treated more than twenty years earlier.

[In vivo evaluation of chloroquine therapeutic efficacy in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Central African Republic ine 1997 and 1998].

The efficacy of oral chloroquine was assessed in 268 children aged from 6 to 59 months attending pediatric services in regional hospitals between September 1997 and December 1998, located in the five county towns of the sanitary regions of the Central African Republic. Chloroquine was prescribed at 25 mg per kg body weight, and administered over 3 days to patients suffering from uncomplicated malaria. Body temperature and blood smears including parasitaemia were recorded on days 0, 3, 7 and 14.