Abstract
Is African Health Sciences in danger of becoming a hepatitis journal? No, far from it! However, in this issue of African Health Sciences, we highlight the importance of hepatitis B and C from two perspectives: ancient and modern! We highlight the articles in the current issue of AHS and reflect on the fairly old papers that give us an insight into where we have come from since 2001. Our first choice is work from Ghana by Ephraim et al1. They report on the seroprevalence and factors associated with hepatitis B and C among pregnant women. They highlight blood transfusion, tattooing and sharing of needles as the major risk factors for Hepatitis C. Yilmaz et al studied hepatitis B, hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance, necroinflammation and fibrosis,2 while Ogwu et al3 report on hepatitis B, C and HIV, and how they influence CD4 counts in Abeokuta, Nigeria. In a similar paper, Ogbodo and colleagues report on hepatitis C and HIV in the Delta state in Nigeria.4 The next four papers report on herpes simplex5,6, HPV7 and trypanosomiasis in Gabon8, while Yan discusses prevention of occupational skin diseases in China.9. We conclude the HIV story with HIV in Port Harcourt,10 and Candida species isolated from HIV +ve patients.11 While the Ebola epidemic rages on, Sierra Leone workers report on the use of cell phone messaging for community Ebola syndromic surveillance.12 In Zambia, Mweene-Ndumba reports on the sero-prevalence of West Nile virus.13
Highlights
African Health Sciences, we highlight the importance of hepatitis B and C from two perspectives: ancient and Non communicable diseases the challenge modern!
They report on the seroprevalence and factors associ- nal and new-born nutrition[36], macronutrients in Saudi ated with hepatitis B and C among pregnant women
Ogwu et al[3] report on hepatitis B, C and HIV, and how a series of case reports[43,44,45,46] bring us near to the they influence CD4 counts in Abeokuta, Nigeria
Summary
African Health Sciences, we highlight the importance of hepatitis B and C from two perspectives: ancient and Non communicable diseases the challenge modern!. We are propelled into the NCDs section with papers on diabetes mellitus[24,25,26], stroke[27], coronary ar- We highlight the articles in the current issue of AHS tery28,CVD lifestyles[29] and CKD-MBD in pre-dialysis and reflect on the fairly old papers that give us an in- patients in Nigeria[30].
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