ABSTRACT
Clinical and outcome data on pediatric Ebola virus disease are limited. We report a case-series of 33 pediatric patients with Ebola virus disease in a single Ebola Treatment Center in 2014-2015. The case-fatality rate was 42%, with the majority of deaths occurring within 10 days of admission.
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Disease Outbreaks , Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/epidemiology , Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/therapy , Hospital Mortality/trends , Anti-Bacterial Agents/administration & dosage , Antiviral Agents/administration & dosage , Child , Child, Preschool , Cohort Studies , Combined Modality Therapy , Critical Care/methods , Critical Illness , Developing Countries , Female , Fluid Therapy/methods , Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/diagnosis , Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Infant , Kaplan-Meier Estimate , Male , Prognosis , Retrospective Studies , Risk Assessment , Sierra Leone/epidemiology , Statistics, Nonparametric , Survival Rate , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
PIP: The World Health Organization and UNESCO have collaborated to establish and evaluate 7 pilot projects for school-based AIDS education in Ethiopia, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica, Venezuela, and the Pacific. By training teachers and developing appropriate teaching and learning materials, they hope to add AIDS education into school curricula. Thus far, 4 projects have been completed. Review indicates that given parental support, school-based AIDS education may work in developing countries at both primary and secondary levels; initial assessment studies are valuable in program design; these programs help to increase family and community awareness; students gain knowledge and may also tend to discriminate less against those infected with HIV; prevention skills are the most difficult to teach and are rarely of primary focus; information in curricula on condom value and use is acceptable to education authorities; teaching and learning material prototypes are useful to educational planners and trainers; and teacher training should include small-group discussions on personal attitudes toward sexuality.^ieng