Sexually transmitted diseases in tropical Africa. A review of the present situation.

How effective is antenatal care in preventing maternal mortality and serious morbidity? An overview of the evidence

“…Many developing‐country studies have found seroprevalence rates of syphilis among pregnant women of 5–15%, which is one or two orders of magnitude higher than is found in industrialised countries today, but similar to levels reported in the early part of this century. Thus, there is considerable scope for intervention 57 , 240 –242…”

Reproductive Outcome Following Abdominal Myomectomy at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital: A Ten-year Review

“…In this review only 18.4% of patients presented with fertility. A high incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease said to be associated with uterine fibroids may account for the rising incidence of infertility in these patients probably due to tubal factor 10,11,12,13 . Anaemia was found in 17.6% of the patients.…”

“…In our environment the surgical treatment of choice is myomectomy which carries a greater postoperative morbidity than hysterectomy 17 . It is possible that with availability of modern medical and surgical technique post-operative morbidity from myomectomy in our Centre would so reduce as to improve the reproductive performance of those infertility cases 6,11,12,22 . …”

Systemic gonococcal infection.

“…'0 Strains of N gonorrhoeae associated with DGI tend to be highly penicillin sensitive but systemic infection with both PPNG and CMRNG have been described3'-34 and the incidence of penicillin resistance in DGI reflects that seen for mucosal disease for a given area. 8 How does DGI present and what treatment is most appropriate? Clinicalfeatures Despite changes in the incidence of gonorrhoea, gonococcal phenotype and the demographics of infected patients the clinical features of DGI have not altered over the past Review 404 decade.…”