Seroprevalence and risk factors of syphilis infection in pregnant women delivering at Harare Maternity Hospital, Zimbabwe.

Objective: To evaluate risk factors and outcomes of syphilis during pregnancy.

Design: Hospital based, cross sectional study.

Setting: Harare Maternity Hospital, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Affordable flow cytometry for enumeration of absolute CD4+ T-lymphocytes to identify subtype C HIV-1 infected adults requiring antiretroviral therapy (ART) and monitoring response to ART in a resource-limited setting.

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO)'s "3 x 5 program" has spurred efforts to place 3 million people on combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treatment of AIDS in resource-limited countries. Paradoxically, the cost of CD4+ T-lymphocyte count essential for decision-making to commence HIV positive adults on ART as well as for monitoring responses to ART remains unaffordable in most resource-limited countries. Thus, low-cost methods for enumerating CD4+ T-lymphocyte are urgently needed.

Risk factors for preeclampsia-eclampsia among Zimbabwean women: recurrence risk and familial tendency towards hypertension.

We sought to estimate the risk of recurrence of preeclampsia-eclampsia among Zimbabwean women. Additionally, we sought to assess the extent to which family history of pregnancy-induced or chronic hypertension was predicative of the risk of developing preeclampsia-eclampsia. This hospital based case-control study was conducted at Harare Maternity Hospital, Harare Zimbabwe during the period June 1995 to April 1996.

Seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus infection among indigent urban pregnant women in Zimbabwe.

Objective: To estimate the seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among indigent pregnant women.

Design: A serological survey study of indigent pregnant women admitted for labour and delivery.

Setting: Harare Maternity Hospital, Harare, Zimbabwe.