Background: Overcrowding in emergency department (EDs) remains a global significant concern, often compromising the quality, safety, and timeliness patient care. To address this, the triage system has been implemented to prioritize patients based on the severity of their conditions and to ensure...
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The female condom is a dual protection tool for both prevention of HIV/ AIDs transmission and unwanted or unplanned pregnancies. The female condom is one of several overlooked and underused reproductive health technologies having the potential to expand choice in family planning and prevention of...
Download PDF ↓Background: Hospitalized patients, including those in the Intensive Care Unit, often experience clinical deterioration. The Modified Early Warning Score helps healthcare providers monitor patients’ conditions to anticipate serious adverse events. The recognition, response, and treatment of...
Download PDF ↓Gender-Based Violence can have a devastating impact on the health of women and girls, depriving them of the opportunity to live a safe and secure life, restricting their access to land, education, and other productive resources. This creates a power imbalance that prevents women and girls from...
Download PDF ↓In Zambia, HIV self-testing is vital for HIV prevention, but there's limited understanding of its use among adolescents. In Zambia, HIV self-testing has become integral to HIV prevention and control, yet a knowledge gap exists regarding its prevalence, utilization trends, and determinants among...
Download PDF ↓The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has been denoted as a place of uncertainty, fear, anxiety and sorrow as the experience of having a baby admitted to the NICUis seldom unexpected, traumatic and demanding. Previous studies have discovered that families of NICU infants often experience...
Download PDF ↓37. Assessing the impact of the response to gender-based violence (GBV) interventions in Gwembe district
Background: Records at the Victim Support Unit (VSU) of the Zambia Police Service show that reported GBV cases annually from 2012 indicate an upward increase from 12,924 cases in 2012 to 18,080 in 2015, and 22,073 cases in 2018, to 25,121 cases in 2019, while in 2020 cases shot to 26,370 before...
Download PDF ↓Introduction: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus, called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has continued to wreak havoc across the globe. It has spread to literally all the countries and territories...
Download PDF ↓39. Determinants of stillbirth in the five general hospitals of Lusaka, Zambia: a case-control study
Background: About 98% of stillbirths that occur globally are recorded in low- and middle-income countries, where south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa account for 77% of the reported cases. An estimated 2.6 million stillbirths were reported every year since 2000. Recent data suggests a 25.5% decline...
Download PDF ↓This study is an investigation into the presence of bacteria from water sourced in Maloni Compound of Livingstone District in Zambia. The basic research objective of the empirical study was to investigate the presences of bacteria in water sourced from Maloni Compound of Livingstone District....
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