Contents Vol 38 No 4 May 2016

May 2016 Volume 38 Number 4

Yellow fever resurgence?

Clinic In A Can: meeting the needs and challenges of healthcare delivery in rural Africa

The management of acute kidney injury

Patient safety moves up the agenda

Cryptococcus and mascara?

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Below are our Publishing Partners for 2016. Each organisation has demonstrated its commitment to health in Africa by supporting this publication throughout the year.

Technical innovation19 Clinic In A Can: meeting the needs and

challenges of healthcare delivery in rural Africa Michael Joseph Wawrzewski III, Physician

Assistant specialising in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

Clinical feature22 Clinical assessment of renal disease Conor Byrne, Andrea Cove-Smith

29 The management of acute kidney injury Carolyn E Amery, Annette Davies, Lui G Forni

Clinical Review35 Medicine; Paediatrics

CPD Challenge38 Test yourself on the articles appearing in

this issue of Africa Health Answers on page 38

Clinical Quiz40 Unlucky lump Answers on page 33

Opinion05 Time to regulate the ogogoro industry Methyl alcohol poisoning is remarkably common

as an inadvertent spin-off from illicit gin brewing. It has been going on since time immemorial, but is it controllable? Shima Gyoh discusses

07 Priorities at the 69th World Health Assembly

Francis Omaswa identifies the key issues on the 2016 World Health Assembly agenda

Newsdesk09 A round-up of news including: Nigeria as

hub of Africa’s Centre for Disease Control; Yellow fever warning issued by the World Health Organization as outbreak grows in Angola; Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa book launched

Ending malaria15 How can we ‘end malaria for good’ if

we cannot identify it? Prof William R Brieger

Technology18 Safety moves up the agenda

Africa Health is a journal of continuing medical education information for physicians and other health professionals in Africa.

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