Case histories of infectious disease management in developing countries: Phnom Penh and Kabul

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Florian H. Pilsczek¹ 

[1] ,University of Calgary Department of Medicine Division of Infectious DiseasesAlberta Canada

关键词: Developing countries;    Infectious diseases;    Collaboration;    Cambodia;    Afghanistan;    Países em desenvolvimento;    Doenças infecciosas;    Colaboração;    Camboja;    Afeganistão;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822009000500001

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Healthcare in developing countries is affected by severe poverty, political instability and diseases that may be of lesser importance in industrialized countries. The aim of this paper was to present two cases and histories of physicians working in hospitals in developing countries and to discuss the opportunities for clinical investigation and collaboration. Cases of patients in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with histoplasmosis, cryptococcal meningitis, crusted scabies, cerebral lesions and human immunodeficiency virus and of patients in Kabul, Afghanistan, with liver cirrhosis, nephrotic syndrome and facial ulcer are discussed. Greater developmental support is required from industrialized nations, and mutually beneficial cooperation is possible since similar clinical problems exist on both sides (e.g. opportunistic cardiovascular infections). Examples for possible support of hospital medicine include physician interchange visits with defined objectives (e.g. infection control or echocardiography training) and collaboration with clinical investigations and projects developed locally (e.g. epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases or nosocomial bloodborne infections).

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