Against a background of a high HIV prevalence among pregnant women and an absence of interventions to curb HIV transmission to children associated with high HIV infant and childhood mortality and morbidity in Africa, this study was undertaken to determine the social factors that influence infant...
Download PDF ↓Lumbar puncture (LP) acceptability is a problem at Arthur Davison Hospital, Ndola Central and Kitwe Central Hospitals, evident by a growing trend of lumbar puncture refusals over a four year period (2003-2006). Obtaining Cerebral Spinal Fluid by LP for microscopic examination is essential in the...
Download PDF ↓Zambia, like many other countries is experiencing the crisis of the Human Immune Deficiency Virus/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) epidemic with a prevalence rate of 14.7%. Community home based care (CHBC) is one of the ways of responding to the crisis. No known study in Zambia to...
Download PDF ↓Lumbar puncture (LP) acceptability is a problem at Arthur Davison Hospital, Ndola Central and Kitwe Central Hospitals, evident by a growing trend of lumbar puncture refusals over a four year period (2003-2006). Obtaining Cerebral Spinal Fluid by LP for microscopic examination is essential in the...
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