Assessing the knowledge of patients with diabetes about foot care and prevention of foot complications in Cameroon, West Africa.

Background: As the incidence of diabetes continues to rise throughout the world, including Africa, diabetic foot complications are a significant factor in morbidity, hospital length of stay, and health care costs. An emphasis on prevention through patient education may reverse this trend.

Objective: To survey patients with diabetes in Cameroon, West Africa, to assess their knowledge about foot care and prevention of complications, with the goal of improving diabetic foot education across a hospital system.

A cross-sectional study of healthcare provider perceptions of the management of epilepsy in pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa.

Background: Epilepsy prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa is high with a significant treatment gap. In this context, epilepsy presents substantial challenges to effective and safe reproductive and maternal healthcare. To improve this, it is important to understand the views and perceptions of healthcare professionals delivering epilepsy care to this population.

Survey of the perceived treatment gap in status epilepticus care across Sub-Saharan countries from the perspective of healthcare providers.

Background: Status epilepticus (SE) is a serious condition disproportionately affecting Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Little is known about healthcare provider experiences. This study investigated the healthcare provider perspective of SE care.

Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infection Following Abdominal Surgeries at a Reference Hospital in North-West Cameroon.

Background: Though abdominal surgery is a risk factor for surgical site infection (SSI), limited data exist in this environment on the burden and risk factors of SSI following abdominal surgeries in our setting.

Aim: The aim of this article is to study the prevalence, risk factors, and outcome of SSI following abdominal surgeries at the Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Bamenda, North-West Region, Cameroon.

Materials And Methods: This was a hospital-based retrospective cross-sectional study.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis in a severely immunocompromised HIV patient in Kumbo, Northwest region of Cameroon: case report.

Background: Leishmaniasis is a rising opportunistic infection in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Cases of leishmania and HIV co-infection have been documented in several countries in the world with most reporting on the association between visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and HIV. We herein report the case of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) occurring in an HIV seropositive patient.