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2.7 million of Eritrea's population lives in Eritrea; the remaining 800,000 are refugees. 80% of the population is rural. The longest open war for independence waged in Africa transpired in Eritrea. 710 pregnant or delivering women die per 100,000 women who opt to carry their fetuses to term, the use of all maternal and child care services is below 20%, female genital mutilation continues to be practiced, and the incidence of HIV infection and AIDS prevalence are thought to be growing rapidly. Diarrhea, anemia, tuberculosis, malaria, and acute respiratory tract infection are the leading causes of mortality among children, while eclampsia, obstructed labor, hemorrhage, and puerperal infection are the leading causes of maternal mortality. The majority of women live in abject poverty with few educational, health, and employment services available. Working 14-16 hours per day, women in the highland rural areas are the principal agricultural laborers. In urban areas, women comprise 47% of the total work force of factories and other manufacturing plants, but few are in professional, administrative, or technical positions. The Planned Parenthood Association of Eritrea (PPAE) was established in 1992 with the goal of complementing the government's efforts to integrate family planning education and services into developing programs and to promote reproductive health rights and services.
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PMID:Country profile: Eritrea. 1229 78

Bangladesh is considered as a high-risk country for emerging infectious diseases because of its high population density, poverty, and unhygienic conditions. Although control efforts have primarily been focused on major infectious diseases such as diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV infection, the prevalence and impact of many local or minor infectious diseases are still unclarified in this country. In this review, we present our recent experience and outcomes of collaborative research on puerperal infection (PI), which is a poorly defined infectious disease in Bangladesh. PI is the most common complication during the perinatal period in developing countries. We investigated the incidence of individual species of aerobic bacteria causing PIs and their drug resistance, and the genetic traits of isolates during the two-year period (2010-2012). The common species of isolates from patients with PIs were Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Proteus mirabilis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Klebsiella pneumoniae. A remarkable finding was the high rates of resistance to cephalosporins among Gram-negative bacteria harboring extended-spectrum beta-lactamase genes, which were associated with carbapenem resistance in a few isolates. This study defined the importance of control of antimicrobial resistance in Bangladesh, and provided suggestions for the future direction of collaborative research on infectious diseases in Bangladesh.
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PMID:Collaborative Research on Puerperal Infections in Bangladesh. 2855 90