Epidemiology and Outcome of Sepsis in Adults and Children in a Rural, Sub-Sahara African Setting.

Objectives: To identify the epidemiology and outcome of adults and children with and without sepsis in a rural sub-Sahara African setting.

Design: A priori planned substudy of a prospective, before-and-after trial.

Setting: Rural, sub-Sahara African hospital.

The inability to walk unassisted at hospital admission as a valuable triage tool to predict hospital mortality in Rwandese patients with suspected infection.

Objective: To assess the value of the inability to walk unassisted to predict hospital mortality in patients with suspected infection in a resource-limited setting.

Methods: This is a post hoc study of a prospective trial performed in rural Rwanda. Patients hospitalized because of a suspected acute infection and who were able to walk unassisted before this disease episode were included.

A Machine Learning-Based Triage Tool for Children With Acute Infection in a Low Resource Setting.

Objectives: To deploy machine learning tools (random forests) to develop a model that reliably predicts hospital mortality in children with acute infections residing in low- and middle-income countries, using age and other variables collected at hospital admission.

Design: Post hoc analysis of a single-center, prospective, before-and-after feasibility trial.

Setting: Rural district hospital in Rwanda, a low-income country in Sub-Sahara Africa.

Increasing Evidence-Based Interventions in Patients with Acute Infections in a Resource-Limited Setting: A Before-and-After Feasibility Trial in Gitwe, Rwanda.

Objective: To evaluate whether a focused education program and implementation of a treatment bundle increases the rate of early evidence-based interventions in patients with acute infections.

Design: Single-center, prospective, before-and-after feasibility trial.

Setting: Emergency department of a sub-Saharan African district hospital.

Increasing evidence-based interventions in patients with acute infections in a resource-limited setting: a before-and-after feasibility trial in Gitwe, Rwanda.

Objective: To evaluate whether a focused education program and implementation of a treatment bundle increases the rate of early evidence-based interventions in patients with acute infections.

Design: Single-center, prospective, before-and-after feasibility trial.

Setting: Emergency department of a sub-Saharan African district hospital.

HIV seroprevalence, self-reported STIs and associated risk factors among men who have sex with men: a cross-sectional study in Rwanda, 2015.

Objectives: In many populations, men who have sex with men (MSM) are at a high risk of HIV infection. This study aimed to estimate the burden of HIV, other STIs and risk behaviours among Rwandan MSM.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we recruited through peer referral men aged between 18 and 60 years, who reported sex with men at least once in the 12 months prior to the survey.