Archives

2013

Vol 7, No 1 (2013)

• Changing perceptions on feeding in neonatal care
• Enteral feeding practices in preterm infants
• Prophylactic phenobarbital in neonates with perinatal asphyxia
• Screening for neonatal sepsis – use of neutrophil CD64
• Indications for radiography in a neonatal ICU
• Neonatal meningococcal meningitis with subdural empyema

2012

Vol 6, No 4 (2012)

• Still separate, still unequal – Child Gauge 2012
• Clinical photography – ethical positions and legal implications
• Time to take action against congenital rubella?
• Health benefits of family hygiene promotion in peri-urban Cape Town
• Acute otitis media in rural Bangladesh
• Cognitive effects of cranial radiation for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Vol 6, No 3 (2012)

• Reducing neonatal deaths in South Africa – are we there yet?
• Incorrectly diagnosing children as HIV-infected
• Practicality and acceptability of text message reminders for
childhood immunisation
• Epidemiological factors in admissions for diarrhoea –
a Tanzanian study
• Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

Vol 6, No 2 (2012)

• Paediatric hospital admissions – levels of care surveyed
• Education and training in kangaroo mother care
• Treating VLBW infants – attitudes of mothers versus staff
• Neurodevelopmental status of HIV-exposed but uninfected infants
• Menkes disease – a lesson not to be forgotten

Vol 6, No 1 (2012)

• Neonatal blood gas sampling methods
• Point-of-care haemoglobin estimation in neonates and infants
• Noise levels of children’s toys
• Should routine diarrhoea management be modifiedwhen the prevalence of paediatric HIV infection is high?

2011

Vol 5, No 4 (2011)

Tissue factor pathway inhibitor in nephrotic syndrome
Determinants of breastfeeding patterns in Nigeria
Incidence and outcome of neonatal tetanus
Morgagni hernia
The doughnut sign

Vol 5, No 3 (2011)

What does national health insurance offer children?
Nutritional health of children in South Africa over the first 16 years of democracy
Risk factors for helminthiasis
Gastrostomy placement in infants and children
Splenic rupture in a neonate

Vol 5, No 2 (2011)

• Evaluating quality of care through mortality auditing
• Solar UV radiation and seasonal trends in sunburn risk
• Chloroquine resistance in Nigeria 5 years after withdrawal of the drug
• Restraint use and seating position of children in motor vehicles in Bloemfontein
• Childhood motorcycle-related injuries in a Nigerian city

Vol 5, No 1 (2011)

Rapid rehydration in acute gastro-enteritis
HIV co-infection with hepatitis B and C
Ocular changes in multi-transfused children with β-thalassaemia receiving desferrioxamine
Predictors of peadiatric injury mortality
Umbilical cord ulceration and jejunal atresia
Gorlin syndrome

2010

Vol 4, No 4 (2010)

Paediatric hearing impairment - identificationand intervention
Assessing longitudinal development of children from low socio-economic circumstances with the Griffiths Mental Development Scales
Drug reaction, eosinophila and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome
Necrotising enterocolitis complicated by gastrocolic and jejunocolic fistulas
Diffuse bony involvement in dissemination BCG disease

Vol 4, No 3 (2010)

The new WHO recommendations on HIV and infant feeding
Factors influencing choice of paediatrics as a career
Quality of care in Johannesburg primary health care clinics
Female genital cutting in schoolgirls in Addis Ababa
Cranial ultrasound in neonates and infants in rural Africa

Vol 4, No 2 (2010)

IMCI revisited
Community-based interventions to improve disease prevention
Incidence and management of dysphagia in a neurodevelopmental clinic
Can thymic size predict survival in preterm infants with severe RDS?
Torsion of a wandering spleen

Vol 4, No 1 (2010)

Drugs for diarrhoea?
Implementing the Integrated Management of Child Illness strategy in Bulawayo
Testicular volume and adolescent sexual maturity
Natural history of ventricular septal defects
A giant thymolipoma

2009

Vol 3, No 3 (2009)

Saving newborn and child lives in South Africa
Rate of pulmonary function decline in cystic fibrosis
Mantoux test positivity in healthy children
Medication use and abuse in childhood diarrhoea
Abdminal epilepsy

Vol 3, No 2 (2009)

Swine flu
Paediatric trauma and safety in the media
'Opened capsule' dosing with stavudine for infants and children
Early surfactant therapy and nasal CPAP for mild respiratory distress syndrome
HIV infection, tuberculosis and workload

Vol 3, No 1 (2009)

Malaria in children
Factors influencing infant feeding choice and practice
Discrepant clinical and haematological features in siblings with β-thalassaemia
Vasculopathy in HIV-infected children
Subdural haematoma after ventriculoperitoneal shunt

2008

Vol 2, No 4 (2008)

HPV vaccination
Non-invasive breathing assistance for neonates with respiratory distress
HIV-related oral candidiasi - a marker of HIV disease progression?
Laparoscopic surgery for infants with ovarian cysts
Sildenafil in the treatment of neonates with PPHN

Vol 2, No 3 (2008)

Pneumococcal vaccine - advancing child health
Vaccines, immunisation and HIV disease
Effect of HAART on neurological and neurocognitive function
HIV - determinants of infants feeding intent
Socio-clinical issues in cerebral palsy
Cleft lip and palate - what do new parents want to know?

Vol 2, No 2 (2008)

African Priorities for child health research
Child PIP: Making mortality meaningful
An overview of hepatitis A
Surgical management of Sialorrhoea
Reducing noise in the neonatal ICU
Abstracts: The Sky's the Limit

Vol 2, No 1 (2008)

Autism update
Children, violence and the media
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura - do we need guidelines?
Newborn screening for galactosaemia and congenital hypothyroidim
Neonatal resuscitation knowledge and practice of Nigerian nurses

2007

Vol 1, No 4 (2007)

The HIV& AIDS and STI National
Strategic Plan 2007 - 2011
Hospitalised very young HIV-infected children - treatment and outcome
Procalcitonin levels in neonatal sepsis
Viral infections in children on anticancer therapy
Neonatal tetanus - radiological manifestations