Background: Globally, 15 million babies are born preterm (<37 weeks gestation) each year, and more than 1 million of those do not survive their first month of life. (Lawn, 2006). Preterm birth accounts for 75% of all perinatal mortality in some series. Causes of deaths and antecedent pregnancy...
Download PDF ↓Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) causes severe economic production losses in humans due to loss of man power and death. In Zambia most of the studies that have been done have focused on analysing the parasite while none have been conducted to establish the economic consequences of the burden...
Download PDF ↓This study was an examination of the effectiveness of Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TEVET) in provision of education and skills development in Solwezi District. The assumption behind the research was that the district suffered from skills mismatch between the...
Download PDF ↓Background: Low back pain (LBP) is an important cause of disability and work absenteeism. World health organization defines Disability as impairment of activity-limitations, participation restriction. The majority of low back pain stems from benign musculoskeletal problems and it is referred to...
Download PDF ↓The study was conducted to investigate whether or not there was effective management of ECC's in government primary schools of Chavuma district in North Western Province. In order to successfully conduct this study three independent variable were tested and these were the provision of teaching...
Download PDF ↓This study aimed at investigating the effects of picture exchange strategy on the communication skills of autistic children. It attempted to explore whether the picture exchange strategy could be used in Zambia in order to help children with autism to communicate. The study drew mainly on the...
Download PDF ↓Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa are encouraged to adopt WHO recommended Option B+, but there is a general fear that the evidence for its effectiveness has not been demonstrated in different settings. Option B+ is an intervention that ensures administering of life-long HIV treatment to HIV...
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Zambia plays a very important role in the development of education. It has been observed that the literacy levels in Zambia were as low as 65% in 2015 revealing a drop from the 70.6% in 2013 according to UNESCO. This could be attributed to poor...
The desire to empower citizens in Zambia has been a common call for all successive governments (Seglin, 1990). Loan financing is the major source of eternal finance amongst entrepreneurs in Zambia. This can be accessed through the Citizens‘ Economic Empowerment Commission, Commercial Banks, Micro...
BACKGROUND: Chronic heart failure patients experience mild, moderate to severe pulmonary dysfunction demonstrated in alterations of FEV1, FVC and FEV1/FVC ratio. About 50% of severe heart failure patients have restrictive lung disease resulting in dyspnea, exercise intolerance and poor quality of...