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Severe pneumonia is a serious infection in children which requires timely intervention. Management of severe pneumonia is done by appropriate antibiotics and supportive care. WHO recommendation is to use injection ampicillin four times a day for 3-5 days and injection gentamicin once a day for 3-5
Japanese encephalitis (JE) is the most important epidemic encephalitis worldwide, causing approximately 35-50,000 cases and 10-15,000 deaths annually. Half of the survivors have severe neuropsychiatric sequelae, posing a large socio-economic burden on communities that can ill afford it. JE virus
Nodding Syndrome (NS) is described as an epileptic seizure disorder and has been documented in various geographic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Jilek et al, 1962, first described several children with attacks of 'nodding head' in Mahenge, a region in southern Tanzania (1,2,3). A missionary doctor
Acute lower respiratory infections particulary pneumonia, are the leading cause of childhood morbidity and death in the developing countries such as Bangladesh [3]. Acute respiratory tract infection causes more than 2 million child deaths worldwide each year, mostly from pneumonia and 90% of them
Acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI), particularly pneumonia is the leading cause of childhood morbidity and death in the developing countries including Bangladesh. Acute respiratory infection (ARI) causes more than 2 million child deaths worldwide each year; most of these deaths are due to
Background: The World Health Organizations acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) management algorithms depend primarily on two key clinical signs: elevated respiratory rate and chest indrawing. The current Integrated management of childhood infections (IMCI) algorithm prescribes that children