Magnitude, clinical and sociodemographic correlate of depression in diabetic patients, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Background: Depression is a major factor in causing hospital admissions and deaths in persons with diabetes mellitus. So far there is no study available on depression among Ethiopian diabetic patients.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the magnitude of clinical depression in diabetic patients and its association with the various clinical and sociodemographic factors related to diabetes mellitus.

Artemether-Lumefantrin (Coartem) and artesunate with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine therapeutic efficacy in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria at Gilgel Gibe II (GGII) South-Western Ethiopia.

Background: Artesunate derivative drugs are newly introduced antimalaria drugs developed in response to the increasing drug resistance malaria spread.

Objective: To determine the parasitological resistance and the clinical failure to Artemether-Lumefantrin (Coartem); and artesunate plus sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (SP) by the WHO 14 day in vivo test.

Methods: The WHO 14 day in vivo efficacy study for coartem and artesunate with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine covered the period from Nov 28 to Dec.