Hastings T Banda

TL;DR: NTS bacteraemia has a high mortality and recurrence rate in HIV-infected African adults and is caused by recrudescence rather than re-infection, and there is an urgent need for improved primary treatment and secondary prophylaxis in Africa.

TL;DR: The cost-effectiveness of the practical approach to lung health and informal healthcare providers is assessed to see an improvement in patients’ quality of life, achieve a reduction in the duration and occurrence of episodes and the chronicity of respiratory diseases, and are able to report a decrease in the social cost.

TL;DR: More needs to be done to educate communities and non-orthodox care providers about the diagnosis and treatment of TB, with a variable pattern of care seeking behaviour.

TL;DR: National TB control programmes in areas of high HIV prevalence should no longer ignore treatment outcomes in patients with smear-negative PTB or EPTB, which have low treatment completion and high death rates, related to high levels of HIV infection.

TL;DR: In‐depth analysis of policy change for integrated community case management of childhood illness in six sub‐Saharan African countries shows how iCCM policies developed and the barriers and facilitators to policy change.