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Maternal mortality in developed countries has declined dramatically over the last 60 years, and is now very low. Women in industrialized countries have an average lifetime risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes of between 1 in 4000 and 1 in 10,000 pregnancies whereas women in developing...

Reported here are factors that influence the morbidity and mortality in hospitalised Zambian children with measles. A prospective study on 2174 children was undertaken to analyse the clinical presentations and complications in children hospitalised for measles between 1993 to 1996 and between...

There has been a growing concern on the situation of women particularly because of the conscientization , which resulted from the UN women's decade (1976-85) with its themes, "peace", "development" and "equality". Various reasons have been given for the failure to improve on the situation of...

Previous research has established high mental health problems and needs of children in residential care. However, in Zambia little is known about the mental health of this peculiar group of children. The study prescribed in this paper aimed to explore the mental health problems/disorders in...

A series of microorganisms were detected from the Manchinchi Sewage Treatment Plant in the different levels of treatment. The samples analysed were :-raw sewage, secondary clarifier sewage and the maturation ponds effluent at the point where it is discharged into the receiving water body, the...

This report is based on an attachment with Radio Mano Community Station in Kasama, the headquarters of the Northern Province of Zambia, which is about 800 Kilometers north of Lusaka. The aim of the study was to establish the extent to which Radio Mano was contributing to the mitigation in the...

The erosion of Tuyeres in Refining has been studied in a Physical Model to establish the dependence upon injection conditions such as gas momentum and orifice profile.The erosion phenomena in terms of Mass transfer-mechanisms has also been studied.A coefficient of Mass transfer kc< , has been...

Alley cropping offers great potential for increased and sustained crop production. However, there is currently limited understanding of the effects of maize/leucaena interactions on water distribution. A field trial was conducted to investigate the distribution of soil water and performance of...

The introduction of antiretroviral therapy has transformed HIV care and lead to significant reduction in morbidity and mortality worldwide. In resource poor setting like Zambia, HIV-infected children often start treatment with advanced disease stage against a background of a high burden of...

Increasing yield through selection for yield per se in most Agricultural Crops has been difficult to achieve since yield is quantitatively inherited with low heritability. A field experiment was carried out in 2010/11 growing season at Sebele, Gaborone, Botswana on twelve tomato genotypes...