[Childhood cancer incidence in French Brittany, 1991-2005].

Background: The aim of this study was to describe childhood cancer incidence in French Brittany from 1991 to 2005, as well as its temporal and geographical variations.

Methods: Childhood cancer incidence was analyzed from the data from the Brittany child tumor registry. Crude rates, world age standardized rates and cumulative rates were estimated for all cancers and for each diagnosis group.

CD4+ T-lymphocytes natural decrease in HAART-naïve HIV-infected adults in Abidjan.

Objective: To study the CD4 natural decrease and its determinants in sub-Saharan African HIV-infected adults.

Method: We performed a 7-year prospective cohort study, with biannual CD4 measurement. Follow-up was censored at the first severe morbidity event or at HAART initiation.

Incidence of neutropenia in HIV-infected African adults receiving co-trimoxazole prophylaxis: a 6-year cohort study in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

In a placebo-controlled trial of co-trimoxazole prophylaxis in Côte d'Ivoire, neutropenia was the most frequent short-term side effect. The long-term incidence of neutropenia in sub-Saharan African adults receiving co-trimoxazole has never been reported. We followed a prospective cohort of HIV-infected adults receiving co-trimoxazole (sulphamethoxazole 800 mg/trimethoprim 160 mg daily) in Abidjan.

[Profile of HIV infected patients among blood donors in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (1992-1999)].

The FonSIDA is a private clinic created in 1992 within the premises of the National Blood Transfusion Center of Abidjan (CNTS), the largest city in Côte d'Ivoire. It provides medical and psychological follow-up for blood donors which are diagnosed as HIV-infected. This Centre provides blood for transfusions in Abidjan and the surrounding area, which from 1992 to 1999 collected 263,398 blood units.

Behavior assessment of blood donors facing the risk of HIV infection, Abidjan, Cotê D'Ivoire, 2001-2002.

Despite precautions taken to guarantee blood safety, in the National Blood Transfusion Center (CNTS) of Abidjan, about 30 regular blood donors are detected with HIV seroconversion each year, two-thirds of them men. A survey through face-to-face interviews was carried out at the CNTS of Abidjan from September 2001 to March 2002 among HIV-positive and HIV-negative regular blood donors, informed about their serologic status. HIV-negative regular blood donors informed about their serologic status since a median time of 67 months (n = 50) disclosed more risky behaviors such as multiple sexual partners (68%) than HIV-positive blood donors informed about their status (n = 112) since a median time of 35 months (41%) (P < 0.