[Factors influencing Central America's civil society organization's capacity to provide AIDS related care].

Objective: To analyze the capacities of Central American civil society organizations (CSOs) to implement HIV prevention and care strategies in mobile groups within the HIV Mesoamerican Project.

Materials And Methods: During the year 2008, 14 key actors of nine Central American civil society organizations participating in the Mesoamerican Project were interviewed. The information collected was systematized using Atlas-TI software, and content analysis was performed according to its categories and dimensions.

The feasibility of government partnerships with NGOs in the reproductive health field in Mexico.

In 1995 the Mexican government began to develop policies on establishing collaborative agreements with civil society organisations, and there is currently interest in Mexico in government and NGOs working together. This paper analyses whether the conditions exist in Mexico for successful partnerships between the public sector and NGOs in the reproductive health field. In-depth interviews were carried out with key informants in the public sector at national and state level and the NGO sector in six states in Mexico.

[Equity and fairness in the Mexican health system reform].

Objective: To assess the equity and fairness of the Mexican health system reform that occurred in the late 1990's.

Material And Methods: The Mexican reform process was evaluated using the benchmark-system designed by Daniels et al. This benchmark system was adapted to the Mexican setting by adding specific indicators.

Evaluation of breast sensibility using dermatomal somatosensory evoked potentials.

This study was undertaken to prospectively evaluate breast sensibility before and after reduction mammaplasty with a new, objective, and quantitative neurophysiologic method based on the anatomic knowledge of breast innervation and the congruent areas of dermatomal maps. An innovative application of dermatomal somatosensory evoked potentials was used to study the breast regions of 42 healthy women, bilaterally. The areas stimulated in each breast were the superior quadrant, the nipple-areola complex and the medial and lateral quadrants, and the inferior quadrant; these areas correspond to T3, T4, and T5 dermatomes, respectively, following the accepted concepts of segmentary innervation of the skin.