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eSCART is an electronic short course on antiretroviral therapy being offered by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, on the antiretroviral treatment of HIV patients in low-resource settings.

eSCART targets health care professionals (physicians and clinical officers) working in low-resource settings and has been designed to increase accessibility to training from remote areas in the field of HIV/AIDS care.
The next eSCART will start on 18th of February 2013 and it is accredited with 3 ECTS by the tropEd network and the MPH-IH course at ITM.

Deadline for application is end of October.

Some scholarships will be available and attributed in a competitive manner. For more information click on the "Interested?" button.

This article is entitled Child Mortality Estimation: Methods Used to Adjust for Bias due to AIDS in Estimating Trends in Under-Five Mortality, published by Neff Walker, Kenneth Hill and Fengmin Zhao.

Estimates of child mortality are based on population based surveys that usually depend upon the histories given by mothers. But this method does not account for the mothers who have died or migrated out of the population. Moreover, for periods long before the survey, births to older mothers will also not be represented because these mothers will have been age 50 or over at the time of the survey and therefore not included. Normally this bias would be small but in areas having a substantial burden of HIV, this would account for a significant bias, as HIV-positive children will be more likely to die than other children, and their deaths will be less likely to be reported since their mothers will have also been more likely to die.