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Background: Treatment outcome of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) differ. Some patients default and restart ART. Family Health International (FHI360) in collaboration with Ministry of Health, has been supporting implementation of a program on HIV prevention, care and treatment (ART)...

This study investigated some linguistic variations among three Bemba dialects, namely: Standard Bemba, Luunda and Ŋumbo. Standard Bemba is classified by Guthrie (1948) as M42. It should be made clear that the dialect known as Luunda is different from Lunda, one of the languages spoken in...

This research aimed at exploring the relationship between space and characters in selected African dramatic works which include: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Dilemma of a Ghost, Ngugi and Ngugi’s I Will Marry When I Want, Masiye’s The Lands of Kazembe, and Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead. The research was based...

The Zambian education system tends to emphasise more on examinable subjects like Science, Maths and English, which have immediate result at the expense of healthy minds and healthy bodies. Physical education aims at preparing individuals physically, socially, mentally, culturally, intellectually...

At the time of independence government considered Adult Education as a tool to address the great challenges of human resource that it needed in its quest to Zambianise the public sector. The Lockwood Committee recommended the establishment of the University of Zambia and urged for the...

This study sought to investigate the perspectives of stakeholders’ on the re-introduction of primary-secondary school structure in Solwezi district of the North-Western province of Zambia. The objectives of the study were as follows: To determine the views of stakeholders on the consultation...

The problem for this study emerged from the fact that nothing was known with regards to how students in credit courses of the University of Zambia (UNZA) extension programme perceived the teaching techniques used by their Tutors. Thus, its purpose was to establish such perceptions. The objectives...

This study was conducted at the University of Zambia and it investigated students’ perceptions of the quality of student welfare services. Little documented literature in this area necessitated the need for this study. The study used closed-ended questionnaires for the systematic randomly sampled...

In the last decade of the 20th Century, human Tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged with a significant impact on global public health. About 9.4 million new cases of human TB are recorded annually with approximately 1.7 million deaths, affecting mainly young adults in their most productive years. The...

Background: In most neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), including the NICU at University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka, initiation of enteral feeds in very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates, is predominantly delayed for forty-eight to seventy-two hours, whilst they are commenced on...