Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV is a vital tool in HIV prevention and care, available information indicates low uptake among Nigerian adolescents despite effort at combating the scourge of HIV/AIDS. A cross sectional quantitative descriptive study was conducted to describe the knowledge, understand the attitudes and practices of VCT among adolescents of senior high school in Nig...

AIM AND OBJECTIVES To present a comparison and a discussion of the Well Child Clinic model in Norway and the Nurse-Family Partnership model in the United States. BACKGROUND The Nurse Family Partnership programme in the United States is voluntary and not universal. The Well Child Clinic programme in Norway is voluntary but universally available for Norwegian families. As the Well Child Clinics...

M. P. W. Grocott 1,2,3* and R. M. Pearse 4 1 Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe), Joint UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK 2 General Intensive Care Unit, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK 3 NIAA Health Services Research Centre, Royal College of Anaesthetists, London, UK 4 Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mar...

Genetic counselors and Genomic Counseling in the United Kingdom Anna Middleton, Georgina Hall & Christine Patch Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC), St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom Guys and St Thomas’ NHS ...

^HE four voluntary hospitals of Sheffield?the Royal Hospital, Royal Infirmary, Jessop Hospital for Women and Children's Hospital have joined forces (with the Edgar Allen Institute in the combination) to form a Hospitals Contributing Scheme. The project does not greatly differ from other schemes elsewhere, but it seeks incidentally to make uniform all Sheffield systems of workmen's contributions...

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rare illness in eastern Canada. We present three cases of HPS among military personnel in Quebec. The three cases shared a common exposure to mouse excreta while engaged in military training in Alberta, a western province of Canada.

a number of ex officio members, who constitute the Hospital Saturday Committee. The aim of this committee is to obtain and maintain regular weekly contributions from every working man and woman in the district. When one realises that the " working classes" comprise the greater portion of the populace, it is readily seen that the achievement of the aforementioned aim would go far to solve the pr...