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Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of men is something that doesn't get talked about very much. What's worse, when it does get talked about, discussion is almost always limited to the abuse that men do to women. A lot of people are very emotionally and politically invested in believing that...

Zambia has a long history of hosting refugees from different parts of Africa running away from strife and civil wars since its independence in 1964. These refugees once settled they have many challenges including lack of access to food. The aim of this study was to establish the food security and...

While it is true that most gender-based violence occur against women, it is not true that women are the only victims and that men are the only perpetrators. Women are perpetrators of this violence against men just as men are. The difference however is that the rate at which women perpetrate this...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and predictors of grand parental involvement, predictors of intergenerational transmission and quality of childcare by grandparents in Zambia. Grandparents are an important part of kin relationships participating in care of...

Pediatric AIDS in Africa remains a major problem as it accounts for over 90% of HIV infections in children under the age of 15 years. While progress has been made with regard to Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT), progress has been more modest on other programmatic aspects...

The study was conducted in Kabompo and Manyinga Districts among the secondary school going pupils aged between 14 and 20.The study conducted was on how the non-availability of condoms in schools affect sexual behavior among the school going adolescents-A case study in Kabompo District and...

This paper analysed the relationship between poverty and remittances in Zambia using data from the LCMS - CSO (2010). The FGT (1984) poverty index approach was applied. Seven income sources including income from employment, crops, livestock, investments, non-farm business, any other income and...

Since 2002, the Government of Zambia has been funding a farmer input subsidy program that consumes a very large part of the resources allocated to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. This survey examines if the program is producing commensurate impacts on maize production by the farmers...

The study examined the role informal networks play in influencing self-employment among the youth in Zambia. The target were males and females aged between 15 and 35 years, who operate their own businesses in Lusaka’s New Soweto and Mtendere markets. For fieldwork data collection and analysis,...

This dissertation focuses on analysing the extent to which leadership in the National Assembly of Zambia has become institutionalised during the period 1964 to 2011, with specific attention on political differentiation, political adaptation and structural growth of the committee system. The...