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Objective is to explore issues of accessibility, administration, transition to regular family planning, training and management of side effects as applied to emergency contraceptive pills. Subjects were 52 Health care providers -18 doctors practicing Obstetrics and Gynaecology and 34 nurse family...

BACKGROUD:Zambia has a high maternal mortality ratio of 591/100 000 live births with unsafe abortions being one of the major causes. Adolescents and young women are particularly vulnerable to unsafe induced abortion with its complications. It has been estimated that widespread use of emergency...

This study examined emergent literacy support in early childhood education. The study focused on preschool classroom practices, which operationally defined included the classroom environment, literacy instruction programme, instructional materials and regular classroom activities. The objective...

This paper provides an account of the experiences and observations that were made by the researcher during the attachment with the Zambia Police Victim Support Unit (VSU) at Lusaka Central Police Station. The aim of the attachment was to gain experience and insight in the communication strategies...

There are many factors that have been said to play a part in the cause of mental disorders. However mental illness in Zambia is largely influenced by socio-cultural factors (Msoni, 1990).Mental Health Services in Zambia were established twenty six years ago but to date, only 20% of the estimated...

Small-scale mining (SSM) activities in Tanzania are conducted using rudimentary mining tools such as shovels, hoes, picks and chisels. In most cases, mining practices do not use engineering plans and designs and usually are done haphazardly resulting in abandoned shafts, pits, trenches and other...

Angolan diamonds have been produced for more than 90 years. Before independence, indigenous people were not allowed to possess diamonds; those caught with diamonds were executed. After independence the new government empowered it's people through issuing licenses to small-scale mining. Over the...

This study was carried out to highlight epidemiological characteristics that children with cranio - spinal dysraphism such as myelomeningocoeles presenting to the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka had. Records of patients presenting to the University Teaching hospital from June 1994 to...

In this paper we will be considering two measures on sorae measure space (X, A). For general p > o we can consider the tiro norms |jf|[p,y and }|fj|p,v. We are interested in conditions on y and v that make ||f||p, y - | [f | |p,v for all f in sorae class of functions, i.e. when there exist...

The debate on whether euthanasia is morally permissible or not has become one of the most controversial issues in the world. Despite the fact that there is not much discussion in Zambia on the practice, Zambia is not spared from moral consequences of both euthanasia being practiced without...