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Intermittent presumptive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) is one of the recommended interventions by World Health Organization to mitigate the impact of malaria in pregnancy in malaria stable transmission zones such as Sub Saharan regions so as to ensure the best outcome for both the...

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....

Pneumonia, which is defined as an acute or chronic infection of the alveolar spaces of the lung parenchyma (Sacharin1986), is among the top five causes of morbidity and mortality in under five children in Livingstone district. Since the age group mostly affected is dependant on guardians who are...

The purpose of this research was to assess the Information, Education and Communication (IEC) given to HIV/AIDS patients in University Teaching Hospital (UTH) and was carried out to determine whether patients are given IEC during their subsequent visits to the hospital The objectives of the study...

Zambia is one of the countries that have embarked on improved and accurate diagnosis of malaria in order to optimize the out come of malaria management. This has led to a change of policy, which emphasized the importance of accurate malaria diagnosis as one of the key interventions in malaria...

Background: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a kidney disease that is a complication of diabetes. Pathogenesis of DN involves damage to the tiniest blood vessels which is followed by increased concentration of blood urea / creatinine and urine albumin excretion. DN is the leading cause of morbidity...

Background: Women and girls continue to be disproportionally affected by HIV in sub- Sahara Africa. In Zambia for instance, the epidemic now has taken a ‘female face’ with the prevalence rate of 14.3% among women aged between 15 – 49 years (UNAIDS, 2007). Gender Based Violence (GBV) and...

Prompt and effective malaria treatment is a key malaria control strategy in Zambia, which has helped to reduce the incidence of malaria and consequently, reduce the infant mortality rate. However, studies done in Zambia show that as low as 19 percent of children under five years of age are...

Challenges faced by hospitals in providing surgical care are many and important to public health. These challenges have long been neglected hence posing a lot of threat to the very existence and development of surgical work in Zambia. These challenges arise from shortage of human resources,...

Background: Prescribing effective preventative antibiotics and treating infections in mothers, providing a clean birth environment, and delivering the baby within 24 hours of rupture of membranes, where possible, can all help lower the chance of neonatal sepsis. However, neonatal sepsis remains...