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Background Male partner participation in antenatal care services is of great importance if pregnant women are to fully utilise and benefit from the services offered to them at antenatal clinics. Male partner participation in antenatal care services is low in Zambia. At Arakan Garrison Hospital in...

Human resources have been widely recognized as critical assets in every organization. Without human resource an organisation can hardly exist. However, human resources face a number of risks which affect the productivity of organizations. This study looked at the mitigation of human resource risk...

The Zambian economy has been grappling with Balance of Payment (BoP) problems since the mid-1970s. This led the country to resort to seeking support from multilateral institutions and subsequently, the adoption of the IMF’s structural adjustment programmes as a solution. The Monetary Approach to...

Many ethnic groups of Africa, the Tonga people inclusive, predominantly prefer culture-bound and meaningful personal names. African, names define who one is, where one comes from, make reference to events surrounding one‘s birth and identify that which the namer(s) and bearer(s) hates or...

Scientific evidence has clearly shown that male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection-by providing partial protection in heterosexual men from contacting HIV by at least 60%.The UNAIDS 2009, reports that one of the key drivers of the HIV epidemic Southern Africa and in particularly in...

Caring for a child who has an intellectual disability can be stressful on the part of caregivers within the family context. A limited number of studies conducted elsewhere on this subject have not focused on the entire family, but on parents of children with intellectual disabilities and results...

In general, the research aimed at analysing the print media coverage of human rights in Zambia as characterised by The Post and Zambia Daily Mail and to establish how they engage other actors in protecting and promoting human rights. Specifically, it sought to establish the magnitude and trends...

The central theme of this study revolves around the system of correctional education provision in Zambian prisons and the process of rehabilitation and reformation of the prison inmates between 1964 and 2011. The study investigates the origin and development of correctional education. The study...

This study is an ethical evaluation of problems of environmental noise pollution in four school areas in M‘tendere in Lusaka, i.e., Mahatma Gandhi, Old M‘tendere, New M‘tendere and Chitukuko Basic Schools. The study arose from the researcher‘s observation regarding the increase in aggressive...

Despite sustained economic growth in the Zambian economy as shown by real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of more than 5 per cent in recent years, the majority of Zambians continue to live in poverty. This paper assesses the link between public expenditure and human development in Zambia by...