[Hemoglobin sickle cell disease: experience of the Yalgado Ouedraogo University Hospital of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso].

Objectives: To evaluate the clinical features of children with hemoglobin sickle cell disease (HbSC) and compare them to children with sickle cell anemia (HbSS).

Population And Methods: This was a descriptive and retrospective study. New patients with sickle cell disease who consulted at the Yalgado Ouédraogo University Hospital's Pediatric Center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, between May 2005 and June 2006, were included.

Neonatal haemoglobinopathy screening in Burkina Faso.

Aims: To report our experience of neonatal screening for sickle cell disease in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and to discuss the feasibility of neonatal screening in this country.

Methods: Between the years 2000 and 2004, there were about 2,341 births in five maternity services in Ouagadougou. These babies were screened for sickle cell disease in a universal screening pilot programme.

[Sickle cell disease: an anonymous survey of physicians in Burkina Faso].

The purpose of this survey was to evaluate the experience of physicians in Burkina Faso with haemoglobinopathy (particularly sickle cell disease). Survey findings showed that these pathologies were encountered in daily medical practice but that resources necessary to insure proper prevention, follow-up and treatment were insufficient. Practitioners expressed the need for better continuous medical education and for information campaigns to familiarize the public.

Tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus infection in west Burkina Faso: clinical presentation and clinical evolution.

Objective: To study the relationship between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and tuberculosis (TB) in a West African country.

Design: A cohort study in TB patients at the TB centre of Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.

Results: HIV seroprevalence rose from 12.