OBJECTIVE To determine the survival patterns of children in Cape Town known to be vertically infected with HIV. DESIGN Retrospective record review of children diagnosed with symptomatic HIV infection during the period 1 December 1990-31 May 1995. SETTING Hospitals in the Cape Town metropolitan area. PATIENTS 193 children were known to be vertically HIV-infected. HIV diagnosis was based on...

In this article, we introduce the concept of co-covering which is the dual of covering concept. Then, we prove several theorems being similar to the theorems that have been de-veloped for the covering concept. For example, we provide the lifting criterion for co-coverings of a topological space X, which helps us to classify them by subgroups of the group of all homeomorphisms of X.

background avoidable mortality as an indicator for assessing the health system performance has caught the attention of researchers for a long time. in this study we aimed to compare the health system performance using this indicator in rural and urban areas of one of iran’s southern provinces.   methods all deaths (29916) which happened during 2004–2011 in bushehr province were assessed. nolte ...

we give the concept of ‘braiding’ for 2-groupoids, and we show that this structure is equivalent tobraided regular, crossed modules.

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines focusing on age-related adjuvant chemotherapy for rectal cancer are currently limited. The present study aimed to explore the impact of age on the efficacy of adjuvant oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with rectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort analysis using data from the Surveillance, E...

Dissociable prototype learning systems have been demonstrated behaviorally and with neuroimaging in younger adults as well as with patient populations. In A/not-A (AN) prototype learning, participants are shown members of category A during training, and during test are asked to decide whether novel items are in category A or are not in category A. Research suggests that AN learning is mediated ...

A data of 124 adult women who had not attained menopause, age ranging from 21-50 years was collected to see the impact of nutritional status as assessed by Body mass index which were categorized according to World Health Organization and cultural practices. Majority of adult urban women were in overweight category followed by normal category and obese category and very few remained in the under...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of an adapted Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) tool at a children's hospital. DESIGN A two-armed descriptive study. SETTING Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. METHODS Triage data on 1 309 children from October 2007 and July 2009 were analysed. The number of children in each triage category (red (emergency...