Village-level Impounding : An Urgent Need for Sub-Saharan Countries

Hepatitis C in Sub-Saharan Africa: Urgent Need for Attention

The hepatitis C virus (HCV), which was not recognized as an infectious agent until the 1980s, is responsible for a worldwide epidemic. The World Health Organization estimates global prevalence at 2.8%, with 185 million persons infected. In contrast to hepatitis B, where successful vaccine campaigns have reduced the disease burden, much less progress has been made toward the control of HCV. Phyl...

[Aging and health in Sub-Saharan Africa: an urgent agenda for international cooperation].

The Sub-Saharan part of the African continent is the area that has the highest disease burden in the world and is the only region of the planet where it is expected that the number of poor people will increase in the coming decades. The countries of this region, to different degrees, experience slow process of population aging but at the same time, it is the are where the elderly population gro...

Female condoms, an urgent need.

Aldosterone assays: an urgent need for improvement.

It should not be forgotten that the concentration of aldosterone in plasma is only 1 thousandth that of cortisol. In this issue of Clinical Chemistry, Schirpenbach et al. (1 ) draw much-needed attention to current problems with measurement of aldosterone. The issue is extremely important in clinical practice after recognition that primary aldosteronism is a much more common cause of hypertensio...

Atopic Dermatitis: the Need for a Sub-saharan Perspective

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is one of the most common non-infectious diseases in the world. For over two decades there has been considerable mobilisation to create a robust framework to address this global problem (the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood [ISAAC] consortium). However, information about Sub-Saharan Africa remains sparse, likely reflecting the increased focus place...