Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among hospital workers at a public teaching and national referral hospital in Kenya.

Setting: Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), Nairobi, Ken-ya, a large referral and teaching hospital.

Objective: 1) To document tuberculosis (TB) case notification rates and trends; 2) to describe demographic, clinical and workplace characteristics and treatment outcomes; and 3) to examine associations between demographic and clinical characteristics, HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune-deficiency syndrome) treatment and anti-tuberculosis treatment outcomes among hospital workers with TB at KNH during the period 2006-2011.

Design: A retrospective cohort study involving a review of medical records.

Acceptability of male circumcision among adolescent boys and their parents, Botswana.

Little is known of the acceptability of male circumcision (MC) to adolescent boys, a key target group for HIV prevention. We conducted a cluster design survey among adolescent boys and their parents/guardians in two villages in Botswana. Of 1300 households visited, 398 boys were eligible; 269 boys and 210 parents/guardians participated.