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This study was designed to analyse the preparedness of teachers for retirement in Kabompo District of North-western Province in Zambia. The study was anchored on the ‘activity’ and the ‘continuity’ psychosocial theories which describe how people develop in old age. A mixed methods approach,...

Preoperative hypothermia is a recognized risk in surgery with adverse effects on patient outcome. Children are no exception and are more susceptible because of their anatomy and physiology. To determine the incidence of perioperative hypothermia and associated risk factors in pediatric patients...

Background: Chronic HIV infection is associated with renal complications including renal dysfunction. Risk factors found in literature for kidney disease in the HIV population include hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, low CD4 count, high viral load, hepatitis C virus...

At the University Teaching Hospital, Department of Surgery, Urology section, prostate carcinoma is number one cause of mortality among patients. All the cases of prostate carcinoma mortalities are patients who present to the hospital when their disease is advanced with evidence of metastasis. At...

This study analysed the agricultural extension programmes from a transformative learning perspective in Ngwezi settlement scheme in Mazabuka District. The Ngwezi settlement scheme is located along the Ngwezi River plain which runs from the Magoye area eastwards for over thirty miles and is...

The introduction of Oreochromis niloticus on Lake Kariba has been widely associated with the decline in preponderance of indigenous Tilapiines, especially Oreochromis mortimeri. Comperative aspects of abundances, growth and reproductive biology for O. niloticus, and three known indigeous...

This study intended to establish the academic performance of the re-admitted girls before and after re-admission in selected secondary schools of Lusaka District. The objectives of the study were: To establish the difference in academic performance of re-admitted girls before and after being...

In 2013, Zambia accepted the immediate operationalization of Option B+, a policy used to try and eliminate mother to child transmission. This policy requires all HIV-positive pregnant and breastfeeding women to initiate antiretroviral treatment for life regardless of CD4 count. However, not all...

The tenacity of the study was to establish why learners with visual impairments in selected secondary schools of Zambia were more braille inclined in Accessing Career Guidance than through Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Objectives that guided the study were to; establish why...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the social and academic factors that affected access to guidance and counselling services among learners in Luangwa district, Lusaka province, Zambia. Invitational Educational Theory guided this study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The...