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Tuberculosis is a growing public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, and indeed in Zambia. The high prevalence of TB since the mid 1980s, has been associated with HIV. This study sought to determine the level of awareness of the community on TB and its response to the disease. A descriptive...

The epidemiology of tuberculosis in Zambia is poorly understood. The study investigated the relative importance of transmission within the household and in the community among children aged 2 years to 12 years living in the shanty-townships lusaka, Zambia. The prevalence of Mycobacterium...

This study was carried out to study the efficacy and short term outcome of sclerotherapy with phenol, to study its complications and compare it to hydrocoelectomy for the treatment of hydroceles at the UTH. The study was carried out over a period of 12 months starting in August 2003.The details...

A cross sectional study was carried out by microscopy and Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), a novel molecular technique that amplifies target DNA under isothermal conditions, to determine the epidemiology of the re-emerging trypanosomosis in the Choma-Kalomo block, an important...

Induced abortion poses a great public health concern especially when performed by unskilled health care providers. The study is comparing characteristics of women seeking termination of pregnancy (TOP) and those admitted for incomplete abortion. Understanding these characteristics of women in two...

Tuberculosis has emerged as the most serious infectious disease in terms of morbidity and mortality in Sub-saharan Africa. The disease can be prevented from spreading and those who get infected can be cured if they are diagnosed and treatment is commenced early and taken for a sufficient length...

This descriptive study aimed at determining the common complications among hypertensive patients at the University teaching Hospital was conducted over a period of six months. Two hundred and fifty patients were prospectively evaluated for complications of hypertension clinically and by...

This study was carried out over a period of 13 months. It is a prospective study on adult patients admitted to the general surgical wards at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, with fractures of the femur. The aim was to study the pattern of fractures in these patients, document the trend...

Three hundred patients presenting with acute central nervous system (CNS) disease were enrolled in this one-year study from June 1997 to June 1998. This was a longitudinal prospective study looking at the contribution of Plasmodium falciparum and other infections to acute central nervous system...

With increasing age BPH causes a lot of morbidity in men. At UTH 40% of the patients in the urology clinic are those with BPH. Treatment of this condition is both by medical and surgical. The goal of surgery is to remove the obstructing mass from within the capsule. This can be removed by several...