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Preoperative hypothermia is a recognized risk in surgery with adverse effects on patient outcome. Children are no exception and are more susceptible because of their anatomy and physiology. To determine the incidence of perioperative hypothermia and associated risk factors in pediatric patients...

Background: Chronic HIV infection is associated with renal complications including renal dysfunction. Risk factors found in literature for kidney disease in the HIV population include hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, low CD4 count, high viral load, hepatitis C virus...

At the University Teaching Hospital, Department of Surgery, Urology section, prostate carcinoma is number one cause of mortality among patients. All the cases of prostate carcinoma mortalities are patients who present to the hospital when their disease is advanced with evidence of metastasis. At...

In 2013, Zambia accepted the immediate operationalization of Option B+, a policy used to try and eliminate mother to child transmission. This policy requires all HIV-positive pregnant and breastfeeding women to initiate antiretroviral treatment for life regardless of CD4 count. However, not all...

Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a low cost method of care for premature and low birth weight infants in areas with inadequate incubators and power outages. KMC has been found to be an evidence-based approach to reducing mortality and morbidity in preterm infants. This study aims to assess the...

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common non-communicable diseases and one of the leading cause of disability, morbidity and mortality globally (Jackson et al., 2014). The aim of the study was to assess adherence to treatment by type 2 Diabetes mellitus patients aged 20 years and above at...

Over the last decade, construction in Zambia has become one of the fastest growing industry. This is evident by funds allocated to the industry in the national budget since 2010 averaging 18 % per annum. Despite this fact, the health and safety level on the construction sites lags behind and the...

This study had two purposes; (1) to investigate the nature of coverage of cervical cancer content in Muvi television evening newscasts, (2) to find out how helpful the information is in educating women on the disease for them to uptake early screening. Zambia has a population of 3.21 million...

The Ministry of General Education, working in conjunction with the World Food Programme (WFP) introduced the School Feeding Programme to address nutrition and health problems of school going children in Mwinilunga District. A study was undertaken to assess the social and academic benefits of the...

Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) is a school initiative used by United Nations member states Zambia inclusive, as a social safety net to tackle the problem of malnutrition and hunger among pupils. It is also used to help improve access and retention. The study aimed at evaluating the...