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This study was carried out to evaluate the role of intermittent self-dilatation (ISD) in patients with recurrent urethral stricture disease at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka. The study was carried out over a period of 18 months starting in January 2002. The details of the technique...

This report is based on an attachment at Mongu District Education board Secretary's Office assess the role of Participatory Communication in enhancing School Health and feeding Programme, using a case study of Ministry of education/Project Concern international School Feeding Programme for...

Tuberculosis remains an important but neglected cause of adult and childhood morbidity and mortality in the African region and yet, since its discovery, TB has continued to kill millions of people. Efforts have been made to address this scourge; however, it could be argued that these efforts need...

The purpose of the study was to determine how satisfied the client were with high cost services at Mansa General Hospital. The reason for doing the study was that despite the revision of the high cost fees from K80.000 to K120.000 the number of clients accessing the services continued to...

Malaria is a disease of great public health importance in Zambia. It is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is endemic in all nine provinces. The malaria transmission paradigms may be higher in urban populations than in peri-urban and rural population and peri-urban areas tend to become...

This is a clinical trial which was carried out at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka from the 1st of July to the 31st of December,1994. It involved treatment of burns in forty children using gamma irradiated amniotic membrane produced at the hospital.The results showed that it is feasible...

Knowledge is the foundation for practice. Most nutrition education programmes operate on the premise that nutritional knowledge of mothers can have an impact on the nutritional status of their children. Literature review revealed that most mothers who had access to the nutrition education...

Background and Objective: There is paucity of data on the outcome of combined VPS insertion and myelomeningocoele repair, and whether this will reduce morbidity and mortality. This study was designed to address this research question. Method: Prospective descriptive interventional study was used...

As the level of competition in soccer is increasing, the prevalence of injuries also has increased. This calls for more rehabilitation facilities to be employed by the football clubs. The main role of physiotherapy in football is injury treatment and prevention, education, rehabilitation,...