Premarital HIV testing on prospective couples in a teaching hospital in sub Saharan Africa.

Background: Most religious bodies insist on premarital screening for prospective couples.

Aim: To determine the level of voluntary screening, prevalence and risk factors of HIV among premarital couples.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study using interviewer administered questionnaire and HIV screening to collect data.

Prevalence and pattern of sickle cell disease in premarital couples in Southeastern Nigeria.

Context: Premarital haemoglobin screening is an important strategy for the control of Sickle Cell Disease.

Aims: To determine the prevalence and pattern of sickle cell disease among premarital couples and to assess their attitude to the risk of sickle cell anaemia in their offspring.

Settings And Design: A cross sectional descriptive study using interviewer administered questionnaire and haemoglobin screening to collect data.

Women's involvement in the decision to be delivered by caesarean section in Sub Saharan Africa.

Unlabelled: The aim of this study is to determine the degree and nature of women's involvement in the decision to deliver by Caesarean section.

Methodology: A cross sectional descriptive multi-centre study on post partum women who were delivered by Caesarean section in the three study centres.

Results: The five most common indicators for Caesarean section include cephalo-pelvic disproportion, prolonged labour, malpresentation, pregnancy induced hypertension and ante partum haemorrhage, which accounted for 70% of the indications for Caesarean section.

Prevalence and pattern of cord blood malaria parasitaemia in a general practice setting in sub-Saharan Africa.

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence and pattern of umbilical cord blood malaria and its association with peripartum maternal malaria in a family practice setting in sub Saharan Africa.

Methodology: A prospective case study of pregnant women at delivery in a private practice setting in sub-Saharan Africa. Giemsa stained blood smears of maternal peripheral blood and paired umbilical cord blood were examined under light microscope for malaria parasites.

Diagnostic approach of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis in endemic areas of Southeast Nigeria.

Unlabelled: There is the need to ascertain the diagnostic approach on which medical doctors based their diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis especially in tuberculosis endemic areas.

Aim Of The Study: To determine the diagnostic approach used by medical doctors in the diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis.

Methodology: A cross sectional study, using structured questionnaires to collect data from medical doctors whose daily routine include seeing sick children was carried out.