This research article sets out to explore Rabai cultural marriage practices in an Anglican Church perspective within Kilifi County, Kenya. It has utilized a number of specific objectives, which elaborates the arrival Biblical teachings that turned be fertile ground for Christianity germinate. examines light Church’s (hereafter, ‘the duo’) on same. In retrospect, it surveys biblical marriage, as...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kits are widely used in India for the diagnosis of dengue infection. It is important to evaluate the validity and reliability of these RDTs. The study was aimed to determine the sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of four commercially available RDTs [Panbio Dengue Duo cassette, Standard Diagnostics (SD) Bioline Dengue Duo, J. Mitra D...

BACKGROUND Dual rapid tests for HIV and syphilis infections allow for detection of HIV infection and syphilis at the point-of-care. Those tests have been evaluated in laboratory settings and show excellent performance but have not been evaluated in the field. We evaluated the field performance of the SD BIOLINE HIV/Syphilis Duo test in Port-au-Prince, Haiti using whole blood fingerprick specime...

Although proton pump inhibitors are widely used, allergic reactions to this group of drugs are rarely reported. In this paper we present the case of a patient who developed a delayed reaction to pantoprazole. A 35-year-old female patient complained of generalised erythema with intense itching and desquamation for three weeks before consulting (Fig. 1). The rash was first noticed five days after...

BACKGROUND There have been improvements in combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) over the past 15 years. The aim of this analysis was to assess whether improvements in ART have resulted in improvements in surrogates of HIV outcome. METHODS Patients in the Australian HIV Observational Database who initiated treatment using mono/duo therapy prior to 1996, or using cART from 1996 onwards, we...