African Journal of Paediatric Surgery  (ISSN - 0189-6725)

Mission Statement

To be the foremost African periodicals in Paediatric Surgery; to promote research, post-graduate training and further education in the surgery of newborns, infants and children.

Aims and Scope

AJPS is the premier periodical on Paediatric Surgery in Africa. Its international readership is reflected in the prestigious international Editorial Board andworldwide reviewers.

AJPS features the very best in clinical and laboratory-based researches on all spectra of paediatric surgery and related topics.

AJPS publishes peer-review original articles, case reports, letters to the editor, editorials, review articles, commentaries, special communications and innovation. It is also a medium for publicizing meetings and news relating to advances in Paediatric Surgery and child health within Africa and the rest of the world.

AJPS is abstracted and indexed by African Journal Online and the African Index Medicus (AIM), and it can be accessed at:

http://www.ajol.info/journals/ajps-n
http://www.afrjpaedsurg.org
http://www.indexmedicus.afro.who.int

Bibliographic listings:

The journal is indexed with Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, African Index Medicus, AMED, CAB Abstracts, Caspur, DOAJ, EBSCO Publishing’s Electronic Databases, Expanded Academic ASAP, Genamics JournalSeek, Global Health, Google Scholar, Health & Wellness Research Center, Health Reference Center Academic, Hinari, Index Copernicus, MANTIS, OpenJGate, SCOLOAR, SIIC databases, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, Ulrich’s International Periodical Directory

Editorial Board (2008)

Editor-in-Chief

• A. F. Uba

Editors

• E. A. Ameh (Nigeria)
• Dan Poenoru (Kenya)
• Milar Derber (Ethiopia)
• Afua Hesse (Ghana)
• O. A. Sowande (Nigeria)
• L. B. Chirdan (Nigeria)
• A. M. Abubakar (Nigeria)
• T. K. Odehouri (Cote d'lvoire)
• S. O. Ekenze (Nigeria)
• Essam A. Elhalaby (Egypt)
• Hamza Alaa (Egypt)
   

Overseas Editors

• Kokila Lakhoo (UK)
• Ashishi Minocha (UK)

Editorial Advisers

• O. Adejuyigbe (Nigeria)
• F. A. Nwako (Nigeria)
• A. Hadidi (Egypt)
• W. Ardill (Nigeria)
• M. A. Bankole (Nigeria
• H. Rode (South Africa)
• A. B. Van As (South Africa)
• Frank Abantanga (Ghana)
• C. O. Bode (Nigeria)
• J. M. Kyambi (Kenya)
• Bankole Sani (Cote d’Ivoire)

Overseas Editorial Consultants

• C. J. Stolar (USA)
• Henri Ford (USA)
• Ben Nwomeh (USA)
• Niyi Ade Ajayi (Britain)
• David Lloyd (Britain)
• Fred Rescorla (USA)
• Boix Ochoa (Spain)
• J. T. Momoh (Canada)
• Don Meier (USA)

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