Effects of a community-driven water, sanitation and hygiene intervention on water and sanitation infrastructure, access, behaviour, and governance: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Democratic Republic of Congo.

Introduction: Inadequate water and sanitation is a central challenge in global health. Since 2008, the Democratic Republic of Congo government has implemented a national programme, Healthy Villages and Schools ( (VEA), with support from UNICEF, financed by UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Methods: A cluster-level randomised controlled trial of VEA was implemented throughout 2019 across 332 rural villages, grouped into 50 treatment and 71 control clusters.

Isolated inguinal endometriosis. Case report with ultrasonographic preoperative diagnosis.

Inguinal endometriosis is rare and accounts for 0.3-0.6% of patients affected by endometriosis.

Ten-year follow-up after pediatric transplantation.

From November 1985 through December 1996, 128 patients aged 1 day to 18 years (mean age, 4.7 yrs; median, 3 years) were listed for heart transplant. Forty-seven (36.

Intermediate and long-term results after pediatric heart transplantation: incidence and role of pretransplant diagnosis.

From November 1985 to 31 July 1997, 65 pediatric patients underwent heart transplantation at Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome. Two of them underwent retransplantation, both 6 years after the first transplant. The 67 transplant patients had a mean age of 59 months; 11 were under 1 year of age.