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B Standaert

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PubMed1989

The association of tuberculosis and HIV infection in Burundi.

AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) are both endemic in Bujumbura, Burundi. An 11% failure rate to standard antituberculosis treatment (n = 173) was observed at the Tuberculosis Treatment Center of Bujumbura (CATB) in 1985-1986. All resistant cases (n = 19) were HIV seropositive. Among 328 consecutive cases with tuberculosis at the CATB during a 3 month period in 1986, 54.5% were HIV seropositive, which is five times higher than the prevalence in the general population in Bujumbura. More female patients than male cases were HIV antibody positive (62 versus 49%, respectively; p less than 0.02). Persistent weight loss, cough, and an anergic tuberculin test were more common in the HIV-seropositive group. Among 48 household members of HIV-seropositive patients with tuberculosis, 6 (12.5%) new cases of tuberculosis were identified, compared with none among 28 household members of HIV-seronegative patients with tuberculosis (odds ratio, 3.8; 95% confidence interval, 0.43-33.2). HIV infection is a new risk factor for tuberculosis in Africa, and HIV-infected cases of tuberculosis may be more infectious than HIV-negative patients. The AIDS epidemic may drastically complicate the diagnosis, management, and control of tuberculosis in populations in which both infections are endemic.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

[Evaluation of the basic health care pilot project of the Turnhout area].

A primary health care project was started two years ago by the PIH in collaboration with the health councils of ten municipalities in the region of Turnhout. The objective was to promote actions on better health that were beyond the capacity of existing regional health care facilities. The project is managed by representatives of the province and of the ten municipalities. The first subject for coordinated action was healthy eating. Three practical projects were developed: a salt concentration analysis of bread from 150 bakeries; a quality evaluation of the deep fat from 110 french fry stands and a secondary school programme entitled "Eat Healthy". A new concept of project development was proposed after the first study. 4 steps have to be considered in the future, which are: first to quantify the amount of the suspected health care problem in the region; secondly to activate an intervention strategy which tends to limit to suggest and initiate long term policy actions. Findings of the to suggest and initiate long term policy actions. Findings of the first project show that to obtain the desired results a well conceived information campaign is essential.

Belgium↗
PubMed1988

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and human immunodeficiency virus infection in Bujumbura, Burundi.

In the first seroepidemiological survey in Burundi in 1984, only 59 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases were recognized. We report here clinical surveillance of AIDS cases in the 4 hospitals in Bujumbura during a 4-month period in 1986. The project was combined with a seroprevalence study of pregnant women in the 6 dispensaries in Bujumbura. 258 AIDS patients were recorded. 16% of the 925 pregnant women were seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The clinical characteristics of 120 adult AIDS patients were similar to those reported in Kinshasa or Kigali. From demographic findings we presume that the major mode of HIV transmission in Bujumbura is by sexual contact. The results of this study formed the starting point of prevention activities against AIDS in Burundi.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1987

[Malnutrition and HIV infection in children in a hospital milieu in Burundi].

HIV infection was present in 18 out of 40 (45%) consecutive malnourished children aged 2 to 29 months in pediatric wards of Bujumbura, Burundi. No difference was observed within and between the seropositive and seronegative groups for sex and anthropometric measures. HIV seropositive cases could be explained by a HIV seropositive mother (83%) or by a transfusion history (17%). The onset of marasmus was earlier in the HIV seropositive group (5 cases observed less than 6 months old compared to none of the other group, Fischer's exact test: P = 0.026). A more complex clinical picture was seen in the HIV seropositive cases (12/18 compared to 4/22, Fischer's exact test: P = 0.004) with the presence of hepatomegaly, adenopathy, thrush, dyspnoea and skin disorders. No difference was observed concerning fever and diarrhoea. HIV seropositive group tended to show a higher hospitalisation frequency and did not well respond to high protein-energy diet: 7 were discharged without gain weight compared to none of the other group (Fischer's exact test: P = 0.011). These results suggest a high rate of vertical transmission mother-child for HIV infection and a frequent association of malnutrition and HIV infection in hospitalized children in Burundi. Marasmic children less than 6 months old should be highly suspected of HIV infection.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
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[Tropical AIDS and tuberculosis. Apropos of a survey carried out in Bujumbura within the direct setting of HIV-seropositive and -seronegative tuberculous patients].

During a survey carried out in Bujumbura (Burundi) within two selected groups of H.I.V. seropositive and H.I.V. seronegative tubercular patients and their respective family, the authors noted that H.I.V. + patients reacted poorly to the specific treatment and they have continued to disseminate Mycobacterium tuberculosis after one year of treatment and consequently they have contaminated their family. They often have showed some drug reactions, in particular to TBE 1.

Adult↗