A chronic disease, diabetes is a fast-growing health problem throughout Africa, with prevention and treatment needs such as those associated with diabetic foot conditions being left largely unmet. This study reviewed the literature on diabetic foot ulcer patients in Africa, focusing on the clinical characteristics of the disease, limb amputation rates and mortality rates associated [...]
Gynecomastia is the abnormal enlargement of the male breast that makes a man’s chest appear more feminine. The condition has numerous causes, with 10-25% of cases resulting from medications such as anabolic steroids, anti-androgens, antidepressants and the antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs used to treat HIV. How gynecomastia is treated depends on the type and seriousness [...]
A parasitic (or asymmetrical conjoined) twin is an embryonic anomaly that primarily affects males. It involves a rare twin malformation where tissue matter that should make up a second fetus grows within the body of the more normally-developed host twin. The solution to such cases is to surgically excise the components of the “parasitic twin” [...]
Gynecologic cancers, especially those of the uterus and ovaries, represent a major health, social and economic burden worldwide, both in wealthier and in limited-resource countries. In middle- to low-income countries such as Mozambique, effective health policies for the prevention and care of such cancers have yet to be developed, and the data available is mostly [...]
The prevalence of diabetes continues to increase worldwide, and is rising more rapidly in middle- and low-income countries. In order to improve health care for those affected by the disease, it is important to take into account both the World Health Organization’s guidelines for its management and the education level and social determinants of health [...]
Erectile dysfunction is common in diabetes, affecting more than half of men with the condition and with a prevalence odds of approximately 3.5 times more than controls. The study evaluated the prevalence of erectile dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), type 1 and type 2, evaluating the data of 145 studies already published representing [...]
Mozambique is one of the countries worst affected by tuberculosis (TB). Despite significant efforts to reduce its high incidence and mortality rates, several factors continue to hamper effective treatment and containment of the disease in individuals also affected by other infectious diseases or by non-communicable ones such as diabetes mellitus (DM). The number of patients [...]
It is not only infectious diseases that are lethal for the African continent; today, diabetes mellitus (DM), too, is threatening communities. A chronic disease caused by defects in insulin secretion, action or both, DM seems to have a severe impact on people suffering from tuberculosis (TB), with dire consequences in terms of the mortality rate [...]