Noise Exposure and Hearing Loss among Brewery Workers in Lagos, Nigeria.

The health risks of exposure to loud noises are a well-established fact and are widely addressed in modern industries. Yet, in less developed countries, it is thought these hazards receive less attention, both in the workplace and in private life. : The aim of this study is to assess the occupational noise exposure in a developing country and identify possible risk groups for whom intervention is needed.

Reaching 90-90-90: outcomes of a 15-year multi-country HIV workplace programme in sub-Saharan Africa.

Background: In 2001, an international beverage company implemented an HIV workplace programme providing free antiretroviral treatment (ART) for employees and dependents in sub-Saharan Africa, at a time when ART, cost assessments of ART programmes and related public funding was hardly available. This study describes the outcomes of this programme with respect to achieving the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets in five African countries and analyses trends over the past 15 years.

Methods: Anonymous human resource data were analysed in three cohorts of participants (those enrolling in 2001-2005, 2006-2010 and 2011-2015).

Prioritising prevention strategies for patients in antiretroviral treatment programmes in resource-limited settings.

Expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) offers opportunities to strengthen HIV prevention in resource-limited settings. We invited 27 ART programmes from urban settings in Africa, Asia and South America to participate in a survey, with the aim to examine what preventive services had been integrated in ART programmes. Twenty-two programmes participated; eight (36%) from South Africa, two from Brazil, two from Zambia and one each from Argentina, India, Thailand, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Morocco, Uganda and Zimbabwe and one occupational programme of a brewery company included five countries (Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi).

Factors determining use of pre-travel preventive health services by West African immigrants in The Netherlands.

Objective: To determine for what reasons West African immigrants, who contribute the largest single group of malaria cases in the Netherlands, visit pre-travel preventive health services and whether use of such services is likely to improve use of preventive measures.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews with eligible participants recruited through West African churches and societies and at a large festival.

Results: A total of 70% of the total non-random sample of 292 participants said that they always use pre-travel preventive health services before travelling.

Atovaquone-proguanil versus chloroquine-proguanil for malaria prophylaxis in nonimmune pediatric travelers: results of an international, randomized, open-label study.

Atovaquone-proguanil has been shown to be effective and well tolerated for malaria prophylaxis in residents of countries of endemicity and in nonimmune adult travelers, but data about traveling children are limited. In a randomized, open-label, multicenter prophylaxis trial, 221 nonimmune pediatric travelers (age, 2-17 years) received either atovaquone-proguanil or chloroquine-proguanil. Safety and clinical outcome were evaluated 7, 28, and 60 days after travel.