Background: Although substantial investments have been made in Zambia to expand prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services, the quality of patient data recording and reporting remains a challenge. The study aimed at assessing the quality of PMTCT programme data at selected...
Preeclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and pre-term delivery around the world. Though its exact cause is not yet known, it is found more commonly in developing countries. Deficiency of serum Zinc has been implicated in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia due to its...
Download PDF ↓Hepatitis B virus (HBV) survives and replicates in the liver. In adults, it is mostly transmitted sexually. Because of this shared route with Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV), it is highly prevalent in HBV infected patients In sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence of HBV is between 6-20%. In...
Download PDF ↓Introduction: The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Sub-Saharan Africa is rising in the background of a high prevalence of infectious diseases including Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV). The use of certain Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) drugs has been shown to cause dyslipidaemia, with...
Oral language is essential for phonemic and phonological development and critical for pupils’ academic success in initial literacy learning. Recent studies have validated the assertion that hard of hearing pupils benefit developmentally, educationally and socially from modern oralist teaching...
Download PDF ↓The concept of using Safe Motherhood Action Groups (SMAGs) is emerging to be useful in referral of mothers to health facilities for antenatal care, delivery, postnatal care or in case of maternal and neonatal complication without delay (ZISSP, 2012). Chadiza district formed Safe Motherhood Action...
Download PDF ↓SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN ZAMBIA Construction is considered as one of the most accident prone industries across the world. In Zambia, construction is labor intensive and flooded by unskilled workers who migrate within and outside the country. As Zambia modernizes its...
Flaviviruses may cause zoonotic or arboviral diseases which are transmitted by arthropods (mosquitoes and ticks). They are capable of spreading by human to human transmission and may result in large outbreaks. In 2010, Zambia was reclassified a low risk zone of yellow fever (YF) by World Health...
Download PDF ↓Background: Diagnosis and monitoring of diabetes has long been premised on fasting blood glucose and a hemoglobin-dependent biomarker, glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), a variant of hemoglobin A. However, adjuncts to these markers, such as 1,5 anhydroglucitol (1,5AG), have since been introduced as...
Download PDF ↓Rabies is a Zoonotic disease acquired through either bites or scratches from rabies infected animals especially dogs. There is currently no known treatment for rabies infection but rabies post exposure prophylaxis helps prevent rabies in humans when administered to manage dog bites before rabies...
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