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Factors associated with failure to screen for syphilis during antenatal care in Ghana: a case control study

BACKGROUND There is little data regarding the effect of ramping up new screening interventions on their uptake by target populations into routine care services in developing countries. This study aimed to determine patient-level factors associated with failure of pregnant women to get screened for syphilis during antenatal care, in the context of a national rollout of rapid syphilis point of ca...

Antenatal factors associated with perinatal arterial ischemic stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Perinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAIS) is a common cause of hemiplegic cerebral palsy in children. The diagnosis of PAIS is based on cerebral imaging. The objective of our study was to determine prenatal risk factors associated with PAIS. METHODS A retrospective case-control study was nested in the whole population of Burgundy, France, from January 2000 to December 2...

Antenatal Corticosteroids to Reduce Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality

Antenatal corticosteroids to reduce preterm deaths in low - income settings

In their Comment (April issue), Kishwar Azad and Anthony Costello raise questions that should be answered before antenatal corticosteroid treatment is scaled up to reduce pre term deaths in low-income countries. We share their concerns about the unknown overall effect of this treatment on mortality and potential safety issues in the mother. To answer these questions, we have initiated the Anten...

Antenatal corticosteroids to reduce preterm deaths in low-income settings.

Kishwar Azad and Anthony Costello suggest the use of extreme caution in scaling up of antenatal corticosteroid treatment in low-income settings. They raise three important questions with respect to the effi cacy, safety, and the appropriate gestational age at which to give corticosteroids to patients in low-income countries. Firstly, in terms of efficacy, there is high-quality evidence on the b...