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INTRODUCTION: Chibombo district is situated in rural Zambia and HIV/AIDS was established as the district’s leading cause of mortality, which accounted for 20% of all deaths (Goma et al., 2013) and it was one of the major health challenges experienced in the district, according to the Chibombo...

This study was carried out in order to determine adolescents' perception towards HIV voluntary counseling and testing in Lusaka urban with an aim of encouraging the adolescents to go for voluntary counseling and testing in order to prevent HIV spread and promote behavior change. The literature...

This study investigated how Environmental Education might be utilised to complement law enforcement and other regulatory strategies in addressing factors responsible for bicycle accidents in Chipata District of Zambia. Chipata District has had a high incidence of bicycle accidents which were...

Background: Disclosure of HIV status by caregivers to adolescents is low. This affects access to HIV care and treatment by adolescents living with HIV. While studies have been done to understand disclosure patterns, limited knowledge exists on factors that facilitate and inhibit disclosure by...

Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is treated with four drugs: Isoniazid (INH), Rifampicin (RIF), Pyrazinamide (PZA) and Ethambutol (E). The emergence of drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis threatens the success of national tuberculosis (TB) programmes. Zambia has recorded a...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a common complication and leading cause of death in people living with HIV infection. In Rwanda, TB is the main opportunistic infection and it is the leading cause of death in HIV infected patients (Rwanda Ministry of Health, 2005). Whereas some literature have shown that the...

Background: Cigarette smoking causes changes in the cardiovascular system including changes resulting from alterations in peripheral resistance such as increase in blood pressure. Increase in Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV), suggesting an increased arterial stiffness has been demonstrated in white...

Background: Malaria is still one of the leading causes of mortality among under-five year’s children in sub-Saharan Africa despite efforts to control it. It affects mostly pregnant women and children under the age of five years in Africa. In 2010, an estimated 216 million cases of malaria were...

The barks of the tree known as Loozi Luna Kasiika (LLK) are widely used as a sexual stimulant for treatment of erectile dysfunction. The biochemical pathway responsible for the physiological response was unknown and the goal was to explore the possible signalling pathway that may be involved....

A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted in Sinazongwe district located in the Zambezi valley region in Southern Province of Zambia to determine the prevalence of HIV among TB patients, examine trends and patterns of tuberculosis progression from 2007 to 2012 and compared treatment...