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The problem of counterfeiting of drugs presents an enormous public health challenge. No area of the world is unaffected, but mounting evidence shows that the problem is disproportionately severe in developing and emerging market countries, which also have a high burden of infectious diseases such...

The production of substandard and counterfeit drugs as a result of non-adherence to good manufacturing practices by pharmaceutical companies is a vast and underreported worldwide problem particularly affecting developing countries. Developing countries are not only markets for substandard and...

Wheat is increasing becoming an important staple food crop in Zambia particularly in the urban and per-urban communities where shift in food tastes and preferences to wheat products has occurred. Production and yield are however severely limited by cost of irrigation water and nitrogen...

The literature on the effects of dietary protein on fertility in ruminants is reviewed and it is concluded that failure to distinguish between rumen degradable and undegradable dietary protein may explain the equivocal nature of the published findings. Thus an experiment was designed in which...

Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is considered as an engine of economic growth and has the potential to reduce rural poverty of smallholder farmers through increased food security and household income. However, Zambia and other Sub-Saharan Africa countries are faced with low agricultural...

Information on genetic variability and stability of yield and yield components of sunflower in Zambia is lacking. The study was undertaken to determine the magnitude of yield; determine the relationships between yield and it's components; and estimate the heritability and stability of important...

Trypanosomosis is an economically important parasitic disease of almost all domesticated animals in Zambia. However, very little work has been done to estabUsh the pathophysiology of the disease in animals in Zambia. The changes in haematological and blood biochemical parameters of infected...

The seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus type l(HIV-l) among paediatric admissions were studied at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Lusaka, Zambia during the period from 22nd November to 15th December, 1995. This was at a time when the number of admissions to the department of...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Comparatives (MACO) has put a lot of effort in running Radio Farm Forum(RFF) program as a means and way to develop the Agricultural sector through information dissemination.In order to make the government responsive to the demands of rural agricultural development,...

This study was conducted to find out the incidence of Salmonella enteritidis in table eggs and chicken carcasses entering the consumer market in the city of Lusaka. Diarrhoea stool samples from humans admitted to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) were also included in the study to...