Background: Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is highly prevalent in Africans. The SCD trait is 18% in the general population in Zambia and University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka has under its care over 1500 SCD patients. SCD causes high morbidity and mortality. Patients with SCD often have pathologies...
Download PDF ↓Psychiatric disorders occur frequently in people living with HIV. Most of them go undiagnosed and therefore untreated, despite the negative consequences they have on HIV spread, progression and management. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in HIV...
Download PDF ↓Background: Hypertensive disease in pregnancy continues to be one of the leading cause of maternal death. Pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) is said to be accompanied by several cardiovascular pathophysiological changes including increases in arterial stiffness. Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is the...
Download PDF ↓A pelvic abscess is a pus filled cavity in the pelvis due to infection. It is typically the result of acute Pelvic Inflammably Disease (PID). Pelvic abscesses are a major gynaecological problem in contemporary gynaecological practice. This research paper made a retrospective study into a 3...
Fifty six (56) out of sixty 2012/2013 final year students (93% response rate) participated in a study that sought to determine how Undergraduate Medical Students of the University Of Zambia (UNZA) acquired competency in clinical practical procedures, their levels of knowledge on selected set of...
Download PDF ↓Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV), Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV are well reported in numerous studies from Europe and America, but there are few data on the prevalence of co-infection in African populations including Zambia. Methods: In this cross-section study, we screened HIV positive...
Download PDF ↓Title: Serum levels of Lipoprotein(a) in HIV positive patients on HAART at Livingstone General Hospital, Livingstone, Southern Province, Zambia. Background: Lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) is a highly atherogenic independent risk marker for Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and current studies have shown that...
Download PDF ↓Background: Between 2013 and 2014, Zambia‟s maternal mortality ratio was estimated at 398 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Successful aversion of deaths is dependent on effective use of signal functions-a clinical intervention- to treat direct obstetric complications. Staff must be...
Download PDF ↓Background: Treatment outcome of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) differ. Some patients default and restart ART. Family Health International (FHI360) in collaboration with Ministry of Health, has been supporting implementation of a program on HIV prevention, care and treatment (ART)...
Download PDF ↓In the last decade of the 20th Century, human Tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged with a significant impact on global public health. About 9.4 million new cases of human TB are recorded annually with approximately 1.7 million deaths, affecting mainly young adults in their most productive years. The...
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