HIV patient with prolonged infection after hemicolectomy and repair of complicated hernia. Mini-review of a rare successful surgical outcome.

Introduction And Importance: Surgical site infection (SSI) is an inevitable occurrence in bowel perforation with faecal soiled hernia wound(s) especially in retroviral patients. Unfortunately, the increased antibiotics and wound care demands do not prevent delayed healing, increased risk of hernia recurrence, or multiple surgeries to control the infection. The standard open or endo-laparoscopic Mesh repairs are either deferred or avoided with alternative tissue-based hernia repairs after bowel surgery.

Amyand's hernia- outcome of nylon darn repairs after complicated appendix surgeries in a district hospital: case series.

Introduction: Complicated appendix is a least expected sac content of inguinal hernias that always require appendix surgery and hernia repair. The current recommendations for posterior wall repairs however, continue to attract conflicting views as to which modality gives the best outcome in infected surgical wounds. New posterior wall repair methods with properties to withstand surgical site infections, minimise hernia recurrence, affordable and easy skill to acquire with a potential to be widely adopted are continuosly sort.

Quality of antiretroviral therapy services in Ghana: Implications for the HIV response in resource-constrained settings.

Objective: Number of People Living with Human Immune-deficiency Virus in Ghana is over 300,000 and unmet need for antiretroviral therapy is approximately 60%. This study sought to determine the quality of antiretroviral therapy services in selected ART sites in Ghana using the input-process-outcome approach.

Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional case study that employed modified normative evaluation to assess quality of antiretroviral therapy services in the Oti and Volta regions of Ghana among People Living with HIV (n = 384) and healthcare providers (n = 16).

Prevalence of, and barriers to the disclosure of HIV status to infected children and adolescents in a district of Ghana.

Background: Globally there are about 3.3million children under the age of 15 years living with HIV. Of this number, 88% live in sub-Saharan Africa.

Blood pressure survey in two communities in the Volta region, Ghana, West Africa.

Background: The prevalence of hypertension appears to be increasing in the developing world. A study published in 2003 showed a crude prevalence of 28.3% in the capital city of Accra, Ghana.

Rabbit Streptococcus pneumoniae keratitis model and topical therapy.

Purpose: To develop a model for experimental Streptococcus pneumoniae keratitis and to evaluate the chemotherapeutic efficacy of 12 common topical antibiotics in vivo.

Methods: Five-hundred (CFUs of log-phase S. pneumoniae were injected into the central corneal stroma of 36 eyes of 18 rabbits.