There are indications that Moringa (Moringa oleifera) leaf meal can serve as a feed supplement supplying nutrients and natural antimicrobials/medicines in poultry chicken diets. Two experiments evaluated the effect of Moringa leaf meal as a feed supplement on the growth and health of indigenous...
Download PDF ↓Special education in Zambia does not appear to receive much attention from the Ministry of Education. Standards Officers in the Ministry of Education have been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring that all schools, including special education schools provide the set standards of high...
Download PDF ↓Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Zambia plays a very important role in human development. It has been observed that most teachers in rural basic schools do not participate in teacher upgrading. It has been observed that in most cases the teachers do not go for refresher courses from...
Misisi compound is a high density, low -income residential slum within the city of Lusaka. It has poor environmental health services, inadequate water supply and unhealthy housing. The poor environmental health and hygiene conditions expose children aged less than five years to various health...
The relationship between education and performance on neuropsychological tests has been established (Dotson, Kitner-Triolo, Evans, and Zonderman, 2009). It has also been found that ill-educated but cognitively healthy individuals get lower scores on neuropsychology test than mildly impaired but...
Download PDF ↓The status of selected minerals in soil, plants and goat plasma in Siavonga district of Zambia was evaluated in the rainy, cold dry and the hot dry seasons between November 2009 and June 2010. Samples were collected in November 2009 (late hot dry season), February 2010 (rainy season) and June...
Download PDF ↓Monthly faecal gastrointestinal nematode egg counts, coprocultures, differential larval counts and packed cell volumes of goats (according to age classes <6 months, 6 months to 1 year, 1 year to 2 years, more than 2 years) from two traditional farming areas (Chipembi and Shibuyunji) in Central...
Download PDF ↓The effect of irradiation on the Katete stock of Theileria parva sporozoites either directly (stabilate form) or indirectly (in their tick vectors) was compared to the 'infection and treatment' method of immunisation of cattle against malignant theileriosis. Fifteen steers were randomly divided...
Download PDF ↓Despite the implementation of the Fertiliser Support Programme (FSP), there were indications of food insecurity continuing among small-scale farmers in rural Zambia during the 2006/2007 farming season. The FSP was introduced by the Zambian government in 2002 under the Poverty Reduction Strategy...
Download PDF ↓The main purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) workplace awareness programmes on high school teachers, knowledge, attitudes and sexual behaviour. The study assessed the impact of the HIV and AIDS...
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