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Zambia is among countries in the Sub-Saharan African with high HIV seroprevalence Rates. In spite an increased awareness campaign concerning the dangers of HIV/AIDS and its prevention, the infection has continued to spread. The current impact of the HIV infection on childhood morbidity and...

User fees are generally used in government institutions as a means of alleviating pressure on constrained budgets. In 2006, the Zambian Government abolished user fees in all rural areas except urban areas and municipalities like Solwezi. The Government took this position because of the...

Abortion is a major cause of maternal mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. This is because many women are, for various reasons that include poor quality of existing services, fear or distrust of methods or conflict between partners about childbearing goals, still not using modem...

Worldwide use of the partograph in monitoring of labour has been proven to reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. Zambia has one of the highest maternal mortality in the world. The eastern Province of Zambia, particularly Chipata District had the highest levels accounting for 76% of...

Background Zambia is a resource constrained country with a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence of 16% among adults aged 15-49 years. The HIV sero prevalence in urban antenatal clinics is approximately 25% and it is estimated that 28,000 infants are born with HIV infection annually....

The stuck sought to determine mothers' knowledge, attitude and practice of child survival strategies in rural Zambia, in respect to growth monitoring immunisations, breast feeding, nutrition/weaning, oral rehyclration therapy. Family Planning and Malaria prevention A total number of 100 mothers,...

In Zambia, one in ten children dies before the first birthday, and one in five before their fifth birthday. To reduce this unacceptable high under five mortality the IMCI strategy was introduced in Zambia in 1995 by the Central Board of Health (CBOH) in collaboration with other cooperating...

Treatment of HIV related diarrhoea has been a problem due to lack of effective chemotherapeutic agents against the different organisms responsible for the problem. Following the promising results of a double blind randomised placebo controlled study at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka ,...

The purpose of this study was to determine the missed diagnosis of potentially treatable intracranial lesions in patients who died of head injury. Two hundred and fifty three patients were admitted to the University Teaching Hospital with head injury in 1996,of these eighty (31.6%) died. Fifty...

Zambia similar to other sub Saharan countries has high sero prevalence rates of HIV. In spite of several campaigns and strategies to improve HIV/AIDS awareness, paediatric HIV/AIDS cases in Zambia continue to rise. Despite the now available ARV's, few children are brought forward to access care....