Mortality and immunovirological outcomes on antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1 and HIV-2-infected individuals in the Gambia.

Objectives: This study's objective was to assess outcomes in HIV-1 and HIV-2 infected antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve patients starting ART in the Gambia, West Africa.

Design: A cohort design was used to estimate survival in ART patients and determine whether survival and time to virologic failure varied across patient subgroups.

Methods: Mortality, virologic failures and CD4(+) cell recovery were assessed in a clinical cohort of patients from the Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinic of the MRC Laboratories in the Gambia.

Birth preparedness and emergency readiness plans of antenatal clinic attendees in Ile-ife, Nigeria.

Background And Objectives: Adequate birth preparedness and emergency/complication readiness (BP/CR) planning could determine the survival of a pregnant woman and her unborn child in maternal emergency. The study assessed adequacy of BP/CR plans of antenatal clinic attendees in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.

Methods: Pregnant women (less than 36 weeks gestation) attending antenatal clinics in selected health facilities were serially recruited into the study after they had given verbal informed consent.