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A Study was carried out among male diabetic subjects over a period of six months to determine the prevalences of both autonomic neuropathy and impotence in diabetics in Zambia. The subjects of the study group were from those diabetics attending the diabetic outpatient clinic at the University...

Zambia national guidelines on the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) recommend that all pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers must have HIV tests every 3 months. However, less than 10% of pregnant women in Lusaka District get retested. Repeat HIV testing identifies women who...

The AIDS epidemic has affected the lives of more than 40 million people in Afhca since the mid-1980s. Zambia is not an exception of this epidemic. This has lead to significant losses of family income and has created so much strain. It has been caused by prohibitive medical and funeral costs. The...

Neonatal septicemia is a common cause of admission to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the University Teaching hospital (UTH) in Lusaka, Zambia, accounting for twenty percent of admissions, and is the third commonest cause of mortality. Financial constraints at the UTH do not allow for...

Background: Zambia is among the countries with the highest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence in Africa. Burn injuries are a common form of trauma in Zambia and are a significant source of morbidity and mortality. HIV infection and burns are both known to induce a state of...

Current World Health Organization (WHO) and International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (IUATLD) guidelines recommend that patients suspected of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) should submit three sputum samples as ‘spot’, ‘morning’ and another ‘spot’. In recent years some TB experts...

This is a quantitative descriptive case study that was undertaken at Ronald Ross General Hospital in Mufulira District. The General Objective of the study was to determine the level of Health-Care Workers' Compliance with the Infection Prevention (IP) Guidelines and the factors that influence...

Mental health problems and ineffective coping in women who have experienced an abortion are common and require specialist care with increased health resource utilization. However, there seems to be paucity of information in Zambia on how women cope psychologically after an abortion. Therefore the...

Objective : To determine the factors associated with unsafe sexual behaviour among the youth aged 13 to 19 years, in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Lusaka Urban. Study Design: A cross section and comparative study design was carried out in 22 basic schools in Lusaka Urban among the youth attending...