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Background: Overcrowding in emergency department (EDs) remains a global significant concern, often compromising the quality, safety, and timeliness patient care. To address this, the triage system has been implemented to prioritize patients based on the severity of their conditions and to ensure...

The female condom is a dual protection tool for both prevention of HIV/ AIDs transmission and unwanted or unplanned pregnancies. The female condom is one of several overlooked and underused reproductive health technologies having the potential to expand choice in family planning and prevention of...

Background: Hospitalized patients, including those in the Intensive Care Unit, often experience clinical deterioration. The Modified Early Warning Score helps healthcare providers monitor patients’ conditions to anticipate serious adverse events. The recognition, response, and treatment of...

Pseudomonas is a type of bacteria commonly found in the environment, like soil and water. Of the many types of Pseudomonas, the one that most often causes infections in humans is called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, accounting for about 10% of hospital-acquired infections. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one...

Gender-Based Violence can have a devastating impact on the health of women and girls, depriving them of the opportunity to live a safe and secure life, restricting their access to land, education, and other productive resources. This creates a power imbalance that prevents women and girls from...

In Zambia, HIV self-testing is vital for HIV prevention, but there's limited understanding of its use among adolescents. In Zambia, HIV self-testing has become integral to HIV prevention and control, yet a knowledge gap exists regarding its prevalence, utilization trends, and determinants among...

Background: A diagnosis of HIV usually causes stress in the affected individual because of its lack of cure. In an effort to eliminate mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) of HIV, pregnant women have to undergo HIV testing during antenatal care. Pregnancy is a sensitive and stressful state as the...

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has been denoted as a place of uncertainty, fear, anxiety and sorrow as the experience of having a baby admitted to the NICUis seldom unexpected, traumatic and demanding. Previous studies have discovered that families of NICU infants often experience...

Background: Records at the Victim Support Unit (VSU) of the Zambia Police Service show that reported GBV cases annually from 2012 indicate an upward increase from 12,924 cases in 2012 to 18,080 in 2015, and 22,073 cases in 2018, to 25,121 cases in 2019, while in 2020 cases shot to 26,370 before...

Introduction: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus, called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has continued to wreak havoc across the globe. It has spread to literally all the countries and territories...