Quality of life (QoL) is a significant element in the assessment of the well-being of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), in particular with the major rise in longevity of PLWHA. Moreover, no studies have been done in Zambia on ART adherence and quality of life in PLWHA in with the World...
Download PDF ↓The study was undertaken in order to asses the level of adherence to antiretroviral treatment among clients attending Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) clinic at Chikankata Hospital. Since its introduction in the mid-1990s, the benefits of Antiretroviral Therapy in the management of HIV disease have...
Download PDF ↓Introduction: Pulmonary disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected patients. Yet specific causes are often unknown in third-world settings due to a lack of extensive diagnostic facilities, particularly in patients with sputum smear negative for acid-alcohol fast bacilli...
Download PDF ↓Current World Health Organization (WHO) and International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (IUATLD) guidelines recommend that patients suspected of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) should submit three sputum samples as ‘spot’, ‘morning’ and another ‘spot’. In recent years some TB experts...
Download PDF ↓Background: Group A beta haemolytic streptococcus(GABHS) associated pharyngitis is an important infection in children because of its potential to complicate into rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease - these are preventable with timely and appropriate antibiotic treatment. Physicians in...
Download PDF ↓Introduction: Adrenal insufficiency is the commonest endocrine disorder affecting HIV infected patients with AIDS. There are different clinical presentations of adrenal insufficiency, including hypotension, hyponatraemia, fatigue, and hyperpigmentation. It is difficult to diagnose adrenal...
Download PDF ↓BACKGROUND: Just 28 percent of Zambian adults aged 15-49 know their HIV status. Those who do not know they are infected with HIV can spread the virus to many others before they become ill, and without early diagnosis may not get the treatment and care they require. In spite of all efforts put in...
Download PDF ↓Thirty two (32) patients with AIDS or ARC who were sputum negative for mycobacteriura tuberculosis and non productive pulmonary infiltrates underwent one of the two diagnostic evaluation. It underwent bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and 15 nebulized saline induced sputum. Three specimens...
Download PDF ↓The commonest causes of admission to University Teaching Hospital - Children wing are gastroenteritis, respiratory infections, anaemia, malnutrition and malaria. Twenty-eight percent of these admissions are seropositive for HIV-1. Since 1990 respiratory infections have constituted 28% of the...
Download PDF ↓During the last decade there has been an increase in notification rates of tuberculosis in many developing countries the world over. Epidemiological evidence has linked this increase to the HIV epidemic in many of these countries, the mechanism of which is thought to be either reactivation of a...
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