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Worldwide use of the partograph in monitoring of labour has been proven to reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. Zambia has one of the highest maternal mortality in the world. The eastern Province of Zambia, particularly Chipata District had the highest levels accounting for 76% of...

The Kariba Reservoir is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. It was created after the impoundment of the Zambezi River at the head of the Kariba Gorge primarily to provide hydro-electric power for mining and industrial development in the then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (which...

Background Zambia is a resource constrained country with a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence of 16% among adults aged 15-49 years. The HIV sero prevalence in urban antenatal clinics is approximately 25% and it is estimated that 28,000 infants are born with HIV infection annually....

Silicon-based microelectronic technology is approaching its performance limits due to the rapid downscaling of electronic devices to ever smaller dimensions. Germanium, with its high electron and hole mobility, high carrier injection velocity, very low carrier free-out temperature, etc. is...

This study was conducted to find out the incidence of Salmonella enteritidis in table eggs and chicken carcasses entering the consumer market in the city of Lusaka. Diarrhoea stool samples from humans admitted to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) were also included in the study to...

The stuck sought to determine mothers' knowledge, attitude and practice of child survival strategies in rural Zambia, in respect to growth monitoring immunisations, breast feeding, nutrition/weaning, oral rehyclration therapy. Family Planning and Malaria prevention A total number of 100 mothers,...

Industrial democracy is admittedly complicated in definition' I just as it is complicated in implementation. In this paper I have attempted to examine the concept of industrial democracy as I viewed by various authors, and how it has found its implementation in some countries before finally...

The purpose of this study is to determine the “informational efficiency of LuSE with respect to monetary policy and money supply. Capital market is said to be informationally efficient if the stock prices at any time “fully reflect” all available information regarding fundamental economic...

Although it is said that there is a lot of information around that people can use to make decisions, there are still categories of people in society that still face challenges in accessing it. One such group is the female traders in Zambia. This research was conducted to establish the information...

HIV and AIDS is having a widespread impact on many parts of African society Zambia inclusive. Zambia, in southern Africa, has one of the world’s most devastating HIV and AIDS epidemics. More than one in every seven adults in the country is living with HIV and life expectancy has fallen to just 39...