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Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) is a highly infectious epizootic disease of small ruminants that cause high mortality and has become an increasingly important trans-boundary disease following the eradication of Rinderpest. PPR is endemic in Africa, Middle East and Asian countries and is a major...

Context— Acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) represent one of the important health problems with high morbidity and mortality in Zambia. Recognition of AKI allows prompt injury specific intervention that may avert permanent renal damage and progression of CKD to End Stage...

Small scale and large scale farmers around Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia grow vegetables using intensive agriculture methods to satisfy the ever increasing demand. To ensure maximum yield farmers apply various types of pesticides to control pests and diseases that attack these vegetables....

Conservation Agriculture (CA) practice is reported to increase the level of total P in soil after a few years of cultivation with fertilizer application. Measures to ensure efficient utilization of the residual P in soil can, therefore, of great importance, especially in acid soils where the...

The provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in schools has been a major concern in Choma District and has received significant attention in terms of policy consideration and dissemination with the aim of improving health in the learning environment. The implementation of the...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the main growing public health concerns worldwide. There are two major types of diabetes mellitus. Type 1 diabetes mellitus which appears early in life and Type 2 diabetes mellitus which appears in adult life. It is important to regularly monitor the...

Introduction: The role that men can play in the prevention of HIV is cardinal in changing the course of the epidemic. When men take part in the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, their knowledge of HIV increases, they become supportive to their partners and their response...

Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase are enzymes that hydrolyse the beta-lactam ring on most of the beta-lactam antibiotics which comprise of penicillins, cephalosporins, and the monobactam aztreonam thereby rendering the antibiotics ineffective to treatment. These antimicrobial resistant strains...

Background: The World Health Organization Focused Antenatal care model states that every pregnant woman is at risk of complications and recommends early an ANC visit, of which the first should be during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. High proportions of pregnant women book for ANC late and are...

Introduction In spite of the extreme importance of an early antenatal care visit, more than 50 per cent of Zambian pregnant women book for antenatal care late (ANC booking after 14 gestational weeks). Mothers who attend antenatal care late miss the opportunity to have early detection and...