Background: The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) has been recently demonstrated to have a negative influence on sperm parameters, fertilization process and abortion rate. Several studies have identified HPV in human semen, mainly from men recruited at fertility or maternity clinics and also in semen...
Download PDF ↓Convulsions with concurrent hypocalcaemia are a common complication seen in very ill neonates at The University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) which admits close to 4000 neonates per year with various neonatal conditions. Convulsions in hypocalcaemic neonates have...
Download PDF ↓This study aimed at establishing the prevalence of undescended testes (UDT) among deceased males, 18 years of age and older, formerly resident in Lusaka. During a 6 month period in 2014, 384 deceased men aged between 18 and 94 years were examined. One out of the 384 candidates had right-sided...
Download PDF ↓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...
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...
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 ↓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 ↓Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide with estimated 529,409 new cases and 274,883 deaths in 2008, as reported by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. In Zambia, cervical cancer is estimated to be the leading cause of cancer and cancer mortality in...
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