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In 2007, 4.3 million cases of malaria (confirmed and unconfirmed) were reported by the Ministry of Health countrywide with 6,149 deaths. The annual malaria incidence was estimated at 358 cases per 1,000 population in 2007, a drop from 412 cases per 1,000 population in 2006, (Zambia Health...

Introduction: Neonatal circumcision is known to have a number of advantages social and health related. The main objective of this study was to assess acceptability of Neonatal male circumcision (NMC) among mothers and to explore the reasons for their decision, negative or positive. It was also to...

A comparative gross anatomica study of placentae and neonatal weight in hypertensive and non hypertensive pregnant women at the University Teaching Hospital Lusaka Zambia BACKGROUND Placenta is an organ that links the mother to the foetus facilitating gaseous exchange, uptake of nutrients and...

Cervical cancer universally is clinically staged using the FIGO staging system performed on examination under anaesthesia (EUA). The EUA staging method is no longer thought to be mandatory but optional in staging cervical cancer. This is emerging from the on-going debate within scientific...

Background: Few reports have described the drug resistance patterns of patients failing antiretroviral therapy (ART) in areas where HIV subtype C is predominant, and there is little data from Zambia in particular.Aims: To evaluate the pattern of resistance in patients failing first line regimens...

Intermittent presumptive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) is one of the recommended interventions by World Health Organization to mitigate the impact of malaria in pregnancy in malaria stable transmission zones such as Sub Saharan regions so as to ensure the best outcome for both the...

Pneumonia, which is defined as an acute or chronic infection of the alveolar spaces of the lung parenchyma (Sacharin1986), is among the top five causes of morbidity and mortality in under five children in Livingstone district. Since the age group mostly affected is dependant on guardians who are...

Chingola District Health Man^ement Team (DHMT) implemented the Community Based Growth Monitoring and Promotion in 2003. Since implementation the programme has not been evaluated and this study sought to investigate the performance of the programme.Descriptive research design was used in order to...

Zambia is one of the countries that have embarked on improved and accurate diagnosis of malaria in order to optimize the out come of malaria management. This has led to a change of policy, which emphasized the importance of accurate malaria diagnosis as one of the key interventions in malaria...

Background: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a kidney disease that is a complication of diabetes. Pathogenesis of DN involves damage to the tiniest blood vessels which is followed by increased concentration of blood urea / creatinine and urine albumin excretion. DN is the leading cause of morbidity...