Senegal: A Typically African Country?

The young nation of West Africa, part of the former French colonial system, has a long history showing a clear integration within the context of the Sahel region.After independence, it followed a particular evolution: though its economic and social development was not free of the Gift Card contradictions and the failures so characteristic for forme

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Fatal Pulmonary Embolism in the Setting of Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome Attributed to Ovarian Tuberculosis

In developed countries, tuberculosis remains a health care challenge due to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and immigration from endemic regions.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 9557 new cases in 2015, with extrapulmonary involvement in 20.2% of the cases.We present a 33-year-old woman from Cape Town, South Africa, who dev

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