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Eleven children were identified as being seropositive for HIV-1 at the Ethio-Swedish Children's Hospital, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia between January 1988 and September 1989. The diagnosis was confirmed by both ELISA and Western blot methods performed at the National Research Institute of Health, Special Laboratory for AIDS. The mean age was 2 years and 5 months, with a range of 1 week to 10 years. There were 7 boys and 4 girls. The most common admitting diagnoses were pneumonia (5), gastroenteritis (5), marasmus (5), disseminated tuberculosis (4), and abandonment (3). One patient had extensive facial molluscum contagiosum. Symptoms at admission or during hospitalization included diarrhoea (9), failure to thrive (8), fever (7), and cough (7). Physical findings included hepatosplenomegaly (5), lymphadenopathy (3), and oral candidiasis (2). No patient with an opportunistic infection or radiographic evidence of lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis (LIP) was identified. Five patients were classified as marasmic and 4 as underweight. Evidence suggestive of encephalopathy (developmental delay and/or microcephaly) was present in 5 patients. The VDRL was non-reactive in the 5 patients in whom it was tested. Nine children were presumed to have acquired the infection by perinatal transmission, though the passive transfer of maternal antibodies or postnatally acquired infection could not be excluded. One child was thought to have acquired the infection by blood transfusion. Three children died during their hospital stay. Paediatric HIV infection exists in Ethiopia; however, these children do not present with characteristic opportunistic infections but with signs and symptoms reflecting the most common paediatric problems seen in the country. Prevention of HIV infection in children entails the prevention of infection in women of childbearing age, counselling of infected women, and effective screening of blood products.
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PMID:Clinical and epidemiological features of HIV-1 seropositive hospitalized Ethiopian children. 206 May 7

Maternal beliefs regarding diet during common childhood illnesses--diarrhea, fever, measles, cough and marasmus were determined in 143 rural mothers by using the interview technique. Some foods were preferred while others were restricted during episode of each illness, depending upon their 'hot' and 'cold', 'light' and 'heavy' and other characteristics, as determined by locally prevalent traditional dietary beliefs. 'Cold' foods like curd, butter milk were restricted during an episode of cough while 'hot' foods like tea, ginger with honey, were preferred. During diarrhea, 'light' foods like khichri, diluted milk and 'easy to digest' were preferred while 'heavy' foods like undiluted milk, roti and 'difficult to digest' were restricted. The study revealed that for a successful health education, it is important to identify local cultural practices and beliefs. The useful practices should be encouraged and reinforced while the harmful ones should be discouraged.
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PMID:Maternal beliefs regarding diet during common childhood illnesses. 225 96

Cross-sectional morbidity in 2 successive quarterly survey rounds and subsequent 27-months mortality were studied in a random sample of 4238 preschool children in the rural health zone of Bwamanda in northern Ubangi, Zaire. 45-48% of the subjects displayed signs of morbidity such as oedema, marasmus, cough, fever, diarrhea, and tachypnoea. Being particularly vulnerable, children aged 3-6 months exhibited the highest prevalences of all morbid patterns except for isolated fever. Further, while isolated cough was more prevalent in the dry season and probably attributable to nightly indoor woodburning, all other morbid patterns were significantly more prevalent in the rainy season. Diarrhea with cough constituted half of all diarrhea cases. The authors continue by concluding that children at increased risk of death may be readily identified by posing a few simple questions on major symptoms and a brief examination by paramedical health workers. The method could be employed at under-5 clinics. Prognosis, however, is particularly bad in severe malnutrition, especially when associated with diarrhea, in diarrhea with cough, cough with fever/tachypnoea, and for children who are found sick both in the rainy and the subsequent dry season.
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PMID:Child morbidity patterns in two tropical seasons and associated mortality rates. 814 93