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Background Rural-to-urban migration has been a powerful trend in developing countries. When people migrate from rural to urban areas, they face problems of dislocation and need to adapt to new, often difficult surroundings. Consequently, they face many risks to their health, including their...

This prospective study carried out in the Casualty Unit of the Department of Surgery at the University Teaching Hospital is an effort to document the role of alcohol in road traffic accidents. It examines the presence of alcohol in blood samples of one hundred consenting road traffic accident...

SETTINGS Study was conducted at the University Teaching Hospital medical wards. 98 Patients with positive blood cultures for Salmonella spp. were studied. OBJECTIVES To describe clinical and epidemiological features of Salmonella septicaemia at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka. METHODS...

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 reasons for admission in the University Teaching Hospital(UTH), Department of Paediatrics, accounting for 4 -8 % of all admissions. The relative incidence of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) in developing countries has been reported to range from...

Introduction:Sickle cell anaemia is an important cause of morbidity and mortality among Zambian children, with a carrier frequency ranging from 6% – 27%. Infections are the most common cause of mortality among sickle cell children aged between one to five years, accounting for about 30% of the...

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...