Recognition of AIDS by health personnel in rural south-Rwanda.

The ability of rural health personnel to recognise AIDS related symptoms and signs according to the WHO clinical case definition (CCD) and its modified Rwandan version was tested in 4141 clinically suspected cases in South-Rwanda. The sensitivities of these CCDs for AIDS in adults were 33% (36%), the specificities 78% (76%), and the positive predictive values (ppv) 46%. For AIDS in children the sensitivities of the CCDs were 13% (16%), the specificities 94% (90%), and the ppv 44% (38%).

[Causal agents of tinea of the scalp in the region of Butare (Rwanda)].

One hundred children with clinical symptoms of tinea capitis have been examined. The samples were inoculated on Sabouraud medium and incubated at 25 degrees C. In 65 of 100 cultured samples at least one dermatophyte was isolated.

[Kaposi's sarcoma in Rwanda: clinico-pathological and epidemiological aspects].

The clinico-pathological and epidemiological features of 119 cases of Kaposi's sarcoma diagnosed during the years 1979-1986 in the main pathology department of Rwanda are presented. Skin involvement (89%) was predominant with almost 70% of cutaneous lesions localised on the lower limbs; 11% of cases presented with extracutaneous localisations, 77% (10 cases out of 13) in the lymph nodes. Incidence rises progressively with age, and males are more affected than females with a sex ratio (m:f) of 6.