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Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common paediatric problem that has not been seriously addressed in Zambia as evidenced by lack of documentation. UTI causes significant morbidity and mortality in the affected children and their families. UTI has subtle symptoms and signs that are easily...

A hospital based prospective study on Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) in Zambian Children was done in the department of Paediatrics, University Teaching Hospital Lusaka over a period of six months in the hot dry season (1st August to the end of November) of the years 1992 and 1993. The aim and...

Adolescents form a significant portion of Zambia's population and are being viewed as a target group for health messages and services.Adolescents engage in sexual activities at a very early stage for various reasons. Ihcy arc therefore exposed to a lot of STIs for which they need to be treated....

Neonatal meningitis is a devastating disease, and its mortality and morbidity is high. At the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka, however, no study has looked specifically at the disease, and controversy exist on whether neonates admitted to the General Paediatric Wards should be...

The study comprises 15 male patients between the ages of 20 and 29 years. Bacteriological examination established a definite diagnosis of early syphilis. Baseline studies like full blood count, ESR and random blood sugar, blood urea and electrolytes, serum creatinine and liver function tests were...

A hospital based descriptive, prospective study on the profile of acute bacterial meningitis in children aged between 1 and 59 months admitted to the paediatric wards at the UTH, Lusaka was carried out in the Department of Paediatrics and Child health, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka from 1...

Three hundred and sixty seven patients with cryptococcal meningitis were seen during the period from December, 1995 to December, 1996 though only one hundred and thirty patients were actually recruited.This was a prospective study designed to determine the prevalence of cryptococcal meningitis at...

Until as recently as twenty-five years ago, the CNS were regarded as mere contaminants when they were ob¬served to be present in infected specimens. They were, till then, overshadowed by the more pathogenic and better studied S. aureus. In the course of the; last twenty-five years, however, the...

This is a clinical and laboratory comparative study of the clinical presentation and outcomes of Meningitis in 75 adult Zambian patients, 44 HIV positive patients ( 28 males and 16 females) and 19 HIV negative( 10 males and 9 females) and 12 (7 males and 5 females) whose serostatus was not known,...