The compendium provides an ideal ready reference for undergraduates, junior hospital doctors, general practitioners, and physicians in the developing world. It is written by teachers with several decades of clinical hands-on experience and its emphasis is on disease profile in the local context, mindful of the importance of being relevant and moving away from temperate texts. The book will be found particularly useful by students preparing for undergraduate and post-graduate examinations in medicine. It deserves to be used in medical schools throughout Africa and beyond.