Assessment of a revolving drug fund for essential asthma medicines in Benin.

Objectives: Benin established a revolving drug fund (RDF) for essential asthma medicines in 2008. We evaluated the operation of the RDF and assessed whether there was interruption of supply of asthma medicine from 2008 to 2013.

Methods: We reviewed the process in establishing the RDF.

A care pathway analysis of tuberculosis patients in benin: Highlights on direct costs and critical stages for an evidence-based decision-making.

Background: Free tuberculosis control fail to protect patients from substantial medical and non-medical expenditure, thus a greater degree of disaggregation of patient cost is needed to fully capture their context and inform policymaking.

Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted on a convenience sample of six health districts of Southern Benin. From August 2008 to February 2009, we recruited all smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated under the national strategy in the selected districts.

Management of asthma in Benin: the challenge of loss to follow-up.

Setting: An asthma pilot project in Benin.

Objective: To assess the implementation of standard case management of asthma at three referral centres and three primary care centres.

Methods: The project began with local adaptation of international asthma guidelines, followed by situation analysis, pre-intervention, training and intervention.

Outcome of tuberculosis retreatment in routine conditions in Cotonou, Benin.

Setting: National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP), Cotonou, Benin.

Objective: To study the patient characteristics and outcome of tuberculosis retreatment cases in a well-functioning NTP.

Methods: A retrospective, register-based study of all smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases put on retreatment (2SERHZ/1ERHZ/5R3H3E3) between 1992 and 2001 in Cotonou.

[Epidemiological observations on the first case of human paragonimiasis and potential intermediate hosts of Paragonimus sp. in Benin].

Parasitological investigations were carried out for four months in 1998 in two Beninese centres of pneumo-phtisiology (Akpakpa, at Cotonou, and Akron, at Porto-Novo) to detect the patients harbouring eggs of Paragonimus sp. amongst the persons consulting for tuberculosis and showing a broncho-pneumopathy without mycobacteria. Eggs of Paragonimus sp.