The ability to determine when or even whether to have children is an extraordinarily important human right that benefits not only the individual woman, who is able to control her fertility, but also others. Family planning helps women protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies. Food and other...
Download PDF ↓To determine the relationship between early-onset neonatal septicaemia and the mode of delivery among inborn neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, 376 of the 5,112 hospital born babies were studied. The caesarian birth rate was 33 per...
Download PDF ↓Aims: The nature of the relationship between moderate alcohol consumption and cognitive functioning has attracted a considerable amount of attention overtime. However, the pattern of the relationship remains uncertain. Some studies have reported a beneficial relationship between moderate alcohol...
Download PDF ↓The differential diagnosis of a large heart is a common clinical problem. Clinicians rely primarily on routine chest X-Rays for the estimation of cardiac size. The accuracy of this technique is however very limited mainly because only the external borders of the heart are visualized....
Download PDF ↓The home based care programme has been set up throughout the country. This was one of the responses to the ever-increasing prevalence rate of the Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV). While indeed many studies have documented the devastating effect of HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency Virus...
Download PDF ↓This study was carried out to evaluate the role of intermittent self-dilatation (ISD) in patients with recurrent urethral stricture disease at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka. The study was carried out over a period of 18 months starting in January 2002. The details of the technique...
Download PDF ↓The purpose of the study was to determine how satisfied the client were with high cost services at Mansa General Hospital. The reason for doing the study was that despite the revision of the high cost fees from K80.000 to K120.000 the number of clients accessing the services continued to...
Malaria is a disease of great public health importance in Zambia. It is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is endemic in all nine provinces. The malaria transmission paradigms may be higher in urban populations than in peri-urban and rural population and peri-urban areas tend to become...
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