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Low utilization of health institutions for delivery by pregnant women in Chadiza District has become a major concern to Chadiza District Health Team (DHMT) despite efforts by the District Health Management Team with the support of collaborating partners to encourage women to deliver in health...

Voluntary HIV counseling and testing is a key strategy in combating HIV/AIDS pandemic. The international efforts to prevent and control HIV/AIDS have called upon the different health and social strategies to combat the epidemic. In Zambia many strategies have been implemented which include VCT....

The aim of the study was to determine the knowledge and practices of Ndola Urban residents towards home accidents in children. A non-experimental descriptive research design was conducted using a standard questionnaire. The study was conducted in Ndola, on the Copperbelt Province. Ndola has an...

ABSTRACT Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) is an important infection prevention method in relation to combating HIV/AIDS pandemic which has affected the whole world, including Zambia. Research studies are being done to find solutions to the effects of HIV/AIDS on the nursing profession in order to...

The study was undertaken in order to asses the level of adherence to antiretroviral treatment among clients attending Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) clinic at Chikankata Hospital. Since its introduction in the mid-1990s, the benefits of Antiretroviral Therapy in the management of HIV disease have...

Since the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy came into power in Zambia, women's health concerns have been discussed in many fora and they are yet to evolve into key policy issues. One of the issues in vogue relates to pregnancy and labour and child birth and it is believed that husbands have a...

ABSTRACT Schistosomiasis is a tropical disease caused by blood flukes of the genus Schistosome. According to data reviewed, Mbala District has been experiencing a number of people suffering from Bilharzia from 1999 to 2004(150-214). The important aspects of Bilharzia pathology are the...

The aim of this study was to determine community knowledge and perception towards trained TBAs in Siavonga District.The literature reviews of relevant studies revealed that TBAs have little or no impact on maternal and newborn mortality rate. A lot of births in developing countries, especially in...

Worldwide use of the partograph in monitoring of labour has been proven to reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. Zambia has one of the highest maternal mortality in the world. The eastern Province of Zambia, particularly Chipata District had the highest levels accounting for 76% of...

Sexual abuse of children of all ages, including infants, happen everyday all over the world (Faulkner, 2006). Despite stiff measures taken by Zambian government to reduce sexual abuse cases, incidences of defilement are not reducing but are higher than rape cases (UTH, 2006). The literature...