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Musculoskeletal conditions are a common cause of long-term pain and physical disability affecting many people worldwide. Additionally, these conditions have an enormous economic and social impact on the individual, society and national health systems. Although the burden of disease due to...

Later in the 1990s, the Community Based Therapeutic Care (CTC) program was introduced first in emergency areas (refugee camps, disaster areas), and later expanded to other locations where severe malnutrition existed. The program has several components including Out-Patient Therapeutic Care...

This is a cross sectional study aimed at establishing prevalence and factors associated with casual sex engagement among military personnel in the Defence Force. The general objective of the study was to identify factors associated with casual sexual intercourse among military personnel so as to...

Schistosomiasis is a tropical disease caused by a parasitic worm of the genus Schistosoma. Natural streams, ponds and lakes are typical sources of infection, but over the past few decades,man-made reservoirs and irrigation systems have contributed to the spread of schistosomiasis.The disease is a...

The study to determine the prevalence of malaria in pregnancy, its associated factors, and its pattern of distribution (geographical) was carried out in thirteen (13) health facilities of Kaoma district, the largest of the seven districts in the Western province of Zambia.The district had...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by There were 14.4 million individuals worldwide living with TB including half a million cases of Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB in 2006. A most serious aspect of the problem has been the emergence of MDR-TB and extensively drug-resistant (XDR)...

This is a quantitative descriptive cross sectional study on knowledge, attitudes and practices of care takers towards prevention of malnutrition among the under five children in Kasempa District. The study was conducted in different communities of the district.The main objective of the study was...

In the last few years governments around the world have pledged to massively scale up the delivery of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to achieve universal access for all. However, recent reports of generic medicines including ARVs containing little or no active pharmaceutical ingredients are...

The main objectives of this study were to (i) to determine if educational level affect Uptake of exclusive breastfeeding among HIV positive postnatal mothers. (ii) to establish whether lack of decision making powers affect Uptake of exclusive breastfeeding among HIV positive postnatal mothers....

This study sought to establish the effectiveness of teaching indigenous languages under the team teaching arrangement. The research methodology of the study involved both qualitative and quantitative data which was collected through questionnaires, lesson observations, curriculum materials and...