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Throughout their long history of domestication, dogs have been sources of parasitic zoonoses, including gastrointestinal parasites and haemoparasites. As such, they have served as a link for parasite exchange, resulting in several emerging and re-emerging diseases. Among them is African...

This study was conducted in Lusaka, Zambia to determine the distribution of the invA, invF,hilA, hilC, hilD, sipC and spiC virulence genes in Salmonella isolates from dogs, chickens and humans using both the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and dot blot hybridization methods. In the study, 243 dog...

While the global status seems to be definite in statistics, published research apart from the Zambia Demographic Health Survey, providing reliable data in the City of Lusaka was limiting particularly involving anthropometric data on the height-for-age and weight-for-height of under-five...

A college timetable is a temporal arrangement of a set of lectures and classrooms in which all given constraints be it hard or soft are satisfied. The Time Tabling Problem is a well-known combinatorial search problem that consists of scheduling events over a period of time. The events being...

Introduction :Indoor residual spraying is one of the methods identified by World Health Organisation in combating malaria by controlling the vector mosquito. In line with the Zambian policy in malaria control, Kaoma district in Western Province of Zambia started implementing indoor residual...

One of the sad features of urbanization is the failure of the Public Sector to provide effective urban services like solid waste management to citizens. According to literature, lack of capacity has been one of the major problems that had been sighted for failure of the Public Sector to perform...

This study was aimed at determining the effectiveness of the media in Lusaka, Zambia as a tool for the dissemination of Economic information for poverty reduction using ZNBC Radio II and the main television channel as a reference point. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative...

The vision of the National Gender Policy (NGP) was to achieve gender equity at all levels of decision making in the Zambian political economy. Institutions of higher learning occupy a very important role in the socio-economic development of Zambia and are critically affected by gender policy...

Anxiety has been associated with poor treatment compliance, disease progression, increased use of the health care services and it has been found to take up cognitive capacity leaving less attentional resources for a number of tasks leading to poor cognitive performance. On the other hand, it has...