Genetic Diversity of HIV-1 in Tunisia.

In this study, the genetic diversity of HIV-1 in Tunisia was analyzed. For this, 193 samples were collected in different regions of Tunisia between 2012 and 2015. A protease and reverse transcriptase fragment were amplified and sequenced.

The general practitioner facing acute infant bronchiolitis: multicenter study in Tunis.

Background: The acute bronchiolitis in infants (ABI) constitutes a health problem, responsible for a congestion of the care system, particularly emergencies.

Objectives: This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and the frontline general practitioners' behavior, and describe the availability of the base pediatric equipment in health centers, in Tunis.

Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted in 2013 at 50 health centers in the region with physicians, conducted by selfadministered anonymous questionnaire and a data sheet detailing the equipment at the health center.

[Indigenous malaria in Tunisia: 4 cases registered in 2013 in Tunisia].

Background: Malaria has been eliminated in Tunisia since 1979, but the country remains, like all other countries harboring the vector, exposed to the potential risk of resurgence.

Objectives: Describe the clinical and epidemiological investigation of 4 cases of autochthonous malaria in July 2013 and report the main actions of regional and national response.

Methods: Retrospective descriptive survey of the 4 clinical observations as well as the study of the regional report data of basic health care for the region of Tunis in 2013.

[National survey of maternal mortality of 2010 : data of Tunisia].

Background: Tunisia has investigated maternal mortality in 2010 to determine maternal mortality ratio (MMR) nationally and regionally, in addition to the indentifying main causes of this mortality.

Objectives: Describe methodology of this study and its principal findings in the region of Tunis and discuss the national maternal mortality strategy.

Methodology: This is a Ramos study (Reproductive Ag Mortality Studies) that consists on identifying maternal deaths from reproductive age group (RAG) women deaths.

[Monitoring of maternal and infantile care activities: experience of Tunisia basic health care services].

In the feamework of quality assessment, the basic service for health care of Tunis introduced in 1997 a service managing tool for prenatal activity monitoring. This paper aims to present the way this tool should be used its setting up within the basic health structures and its principal effects on the quality process. Prenatal activity monitoring is a process that allows evaluation, control and dysfunction level identification of a health program: it also permits a microplanification in order to compensate for its failings.

[Children bronchiolitis: multicentric study in Tunis].

This study is made in the general framework of the basic health cares program set up by Tunis regional service to fight child serious respiratory infections. It has an objective to measure bronchiolitis winter frequency for patients aged from 1 to 36 months, serious cases frequency, changing profile, the therapeutic behavior and environmental risk factors. This is a multicentric transversal study in grappa, it has taken place in Tunis between January and march 1999 with a sample size of 1340 patients.