Correlates of mother-to child-transmission of HIV infection in a tertiary hospital in Ebonyi state, Nigeria.

Background: Nigeria has the largest global burden of HIV new infections in children despite global and national concerted efforts at the reduction of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The goal of this study was to determine the associations between maternal characteristics, practices and mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection among mothers living with HIV.

Methods: This is a hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study.

Review of four unusual cases of HIV-positive infants; cryptic pregnancy scam and mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria.

Background: Cryptic pregnancy is defined as lack of awareness of pregnancy until the last weeks of gestation or during labour and delivery but in cryptic pregnancy scam, mothers feigned pregnancies that never existed.

Methods: We report a total of four cases of HIV infected infants said to have been delivered by HIV negative mothers. All the mothers are above 40 years of age with a range of 9 to 18 years of infertility in marriage.

Cervical Cancer Screening Knowledge, Uptake and Barriers among Female Undergraduates in a Nigerian University.

Background: Cervical cancer is a highly preventable disease that disproportionally affects women in developing countries with an estimated incidence rate of 33 cases per 100,000 women in Nigeria. Over the year's awareness and uptake of cervical cancer screening services have remained poor in developing countries. Lack of knowledge and poor attitude towards the disease and its risk factors can affect screening practice and development of preventive behaviour for cervical cancer.

An Epidemiological Investigation of Lassa Fever Outbreak in Ebonyi State South Eastern Nigeria Lessons Learnt (January to March 2018).

Background: We investigated an outbreak of Lassa fever that occurred in Ebonyi state, Southeast Nigeria from January to March 2018.

Methodology: The Emergency operational centre (EOC) model was used for the outbreak coordination. Cases and deaths were identified through the routine surveillance system.

Lassa fever in pregnancy with a positive maternal and fetal outcome: A case report.

Background: The signs and symptoms of Lassa fever are initially indistinguishable from other febrile illnesses common in the tropics and complications of pregnancy. Surviving Lassa fever during pregnancy is rare. Only few cases have been documented.

Low Serum Vitamin C Status Among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care at General Hospital Dawakin Kudu, Northwest Nigeria.

Background: Vitamin C levels are low in pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to determine serum Vitamins C levels among pregnant women attending antenatal care at a General Hospital in Dawakin Kudu, Kano, and this can help further research to determine the place of Vitamin C supplementation in pregnancy.

Methods: This was a prospective study of 400 pregnant women who presented for antenatal care in General Hospital Dawakin Kudu, Kano, Nigeria.

Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia among booked parturients who received two doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) in a tertiary health facility Southeast Nigeria.

Background: Malaria is preventable but has contributed significantly to maternal morbidity and mortality in our environment. Malaria parasitaemia during pregnancy is mostly asymptomatic, untreated but with complications.

Aim: A follow-up study aimed at determining plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia and associated complications among booked parturient who had intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) compared with another study among unbooked parturients who did not take SP for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp).

Outcomes of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia in neonates in a tertiary hospital, southeast Nigeria.

Background: Malaria infestation during pregnancy is mostly asymptomatic and untreated especially in unbooked pregnancies. It presents with almost all the fetal complications of overt malaria in pregnancy. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia on the neonates of unbooked parturients delivered at term at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki.