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Reading is essential for children’s educational success and communication in a technologically advancing society. This position has provoked researchers to investigate the process of reading acquisition. Although a number of factors inhibit and facilitate the process of its acquisition, many...

The Lands Tribunal was set up with the aim of creating a forum through which land-related disputes could be disposed of in a quick, flexible and cost effective manner. However, its functions were greatly undermined by jurisdictional restrictions imposed by the Lands Act as well as the various...

The study sought to identify attitudes inherent in rural communities towards the practice of midwifery by males in Mpongwe district. The objectives of the study were; to establish the views that men and women have towards male midwives, to determine factors that promotes or hinders acceptability...

The aim of this study was to investigate the causal relationship among financial development, trade openness, and economic growth in Zambia from 1965 to 2011. To fully understand this relationship, two measures of financial development were used: broad money and domestic credit to the private...

BACKGROUND: Nephrotic syndrome (NS) and glomerulonephritis are the commonest glomerular diseases seen at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka, in the department of Paediatrics and Child Health. [1] Nephrotic syndrome commonly presents with hypoalbuminaemia, oedema and hyperlipidaemia....

This study focuses on the administrative and legislative changes that the colonial government made in response to the impact of the Great Depression in Northern Rhodesia. It reveals that the government mainly responded to the decline in government revenues, the widespread poverty and destitution...

Background The iris is the coloured part around the black pupil. It is a flat structure and each iris is unique in its colour, patterns and texture. Its colour varies in different individuals, ethnic groups and is largely affected by geographical factors. The colour of the iris in the Zambian...

Title: The correlation between baseline serum hepatitis B surface antigen level and levels of other baseline markers of viral activity in chronic hepatitis B viral infection at the University Teaching Hospital. Background: Hepatitis B viral (HBV) infection rate among healthy blood donors in...

Developing countries among others have come increasingly to see the important role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in economic development, growth and employment. Thus, most of these countries have undertaken various policy incentives to attract FDI. Zambia has not been left out in this...

Objective: To determine the effect of gender on accessing antiretroviral therapy and its link to neurocognitive impairment. Methods: The study was in two parts. Part 1 used the qualitative approach and 38 participants comprising 34 HIV infected adults, equal numbers of men and women and 4 health...