South Sudan Medical Journal - #1 2022

Dear colleagues,

The first issue of the South Sudan Medical Journal for 2022 is on our website here and the contents are listed below.

In it, you will find articles covering seats for disabled people using pit latrines in Uganda, Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Ethiopia, extra-pulmonary TB in South Sudan, case reports on the double uterus, ossifying fibroma of the mandible, and our second Back-to-Basics paper on fever.

See also the Appeal for the Al Sabah Children’s Hospital Resource Centre.

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South Sudan Medical Journal

We thank everyone who contributes to SSMJ including our editors and, especially, our anonymous peer reviewers. Let us know if you are willing to review or edit articles.

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EDITORIAL

• The unmet need of pit latrine use by disabled people: a practical solution Eluzai Hakim

RESEARCH ARTICLES

• Determinant factors of immediate outcomes of Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Gondar, Ethiopia Yousif Abdalla Alzubair, Yohannes Hailu and Koku Sisay Tamirat
• One year’s experience of extra-pulmonary TB in a county/regional hospital in South Sudan Gadic Kot Apiu, Lina Sala, Rosario Iannetti, and J. Clarke McIntosh

MAIN ARTICLES

• Sanitation resources for disabled individuals in Uganda Harrison Schmachtenberger, Mei-Li Hey, and Mikaya LD Lumori
• Portable pit latrine seats to increase sanitation for disabled individuals in Lira, Uganda Mei-Li Hey, Harrison Schmachtenberger, and Mikaya LD Lumori

CASE REPORTS

• Double uterus in young women delivered by Caesarean Section: five cases from South Sudan and Ethiopia Jok Thikuiy Gang, Garang Dakjur Lueth and Onwar Otien Jwodh
• Giant ossifying fibroma of the mandible Ernesto Carmona Fernández

SUMMARY

• Back-to-basics: Fever is a syndrome and not just pyrexia Lucien Wasingya- Kasereka and John Kellett

SHORT ITEMS

• Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund (GMCTF) Applicants 2022/2023
• Snakebite cases on the rise as antivenom runs out in Warrap
• Al Sabah Children’s Hospital Resource Centre Appeal

BACK COVER

• The graphs showing South Sudan daily confirmed and cumulative COVID-19 deaths as of January 29, 2022

Kind regards,

The SSMJ team
Email: southsudanmedicaljournal AT gmail.com

n.b. I have reduced the number of links from the original email. PJ