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This study was carried out at the Middle Zambezi basin in Lusaka province to determine freshwater snail diversity, its relationship to the presence of schistosomiasis and the impact of prevailing environmental factors on snail diversity. The study was carried out during the cool-dry season...

The central theme in Medical Geography is the study of the spatial variation of disease and general effects of the environment on the occurrence of disease, A disease such as cholera is a disturbance of the normal harmony existing between bodily functions and their environment.Such a...

This study was prompted by the general research problem arising from a concern over the dismal performance of High school pupils in the mapwork component of the Zambian School Certificate Geography paper 1 (2218/1). This problem was against the background of the paucity of knowledge in this area...

This thesis, with its focus on the Gwembe Valley, an area that has a long history of drought conditions in the country and one of those that was severely affected during the recent three year running drought (.1981-84) , attempts to find out about peoples' responses and adjustments to the drought...

HTLV-1 is a retro-virus responsible for pathological disorders such as Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (TSP) and Adult T cell Leukaemia/Lymphoma (ATL). The main characteristic of HTLV-1 infection is its long period of latency and the age related sero-prelavence, especially in endemic areas. A...

There are many non climatic factors influencing the agricultural potential of an area, but of the climatic factors, the most important are the distribution in time and the amount of rainfall. The purpose of this study is to probe rainfall variability based on the persistence model which follows a...

Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) is an economic model of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) that was adopted by a number of Third World countries as far back as the 1960s' as a way of rectifying the macro-economic...

Deforestation in Zambia is a source of concern to various stakeholders. Agriculture, which includes tobacco growing and its curing, is cited as a major factor, among others,contributing to woodland clearance. Tobacco production is associated with deforestation because it requires large quantities...

The New Zambian High School Geography Curriculum (NZHSGC) that was launched in the year 2000 by the Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) of the Ministry of Education (MoE) carried with it a new component called the field project. The reason for proposing a field project was that the geography...

The study assessed the prevalence of drug resistant malarial parasites in patients at Solwezi urban clinic in northwestern province of Zambia in February 2004, using the in-vivo and molecular methods. In the in-vivo method each patient was monitored for signs and symptoms of the disease following...