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This study investigated the syntax of verb phrases in Tonga language which is one of the Bantu languages found in Southern Province of Zambia. The descriptive study was carried out to examine whether or not verb phrases in Tonga can be analysed using insights from Government Binding (GB). Data...

Rock art is much more than mere decorations or reflections of everyday concerns or daubing of figures for idle pastime but a reflection of past people’s relation with their environment. This study examines Shiwa Ng'andu Rock Art of in the context of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene...

The study sought to examine the translation strategies applied to establish meaning equivalence in the process of translating news in English into Nyanja at the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC). The objectives of the study were three fold: Firstly, to establish the strategies that...

Anaemia is a global public health problem affecting people from different age groups, frequently, pregnant women, especially in the developing. WHO (1996) defines anaemia in pregnancy as haemoglobin (Hb) level below 11g/dl in the first half of the pregnancy and 10.5g/dl in the second half. The...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2016 recommended early infant male circumcision EIMC for prevention of HIV. Ministry of Health and other Non-Governmental organisations (NGO) such as CIDRZ are determined to reach male circumcision prevalence of...

Malaria in pregnancy causes adverse birth outcomes. Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) is recommended as a chemoprevention therapy. Despite the effectiveness of the intervention, Zomba district has below national average uptake...

Zambia’s recent plague outbreaks in 2001 and 2007 were of great public health concern because of the potential to cause devastating social, environmental and economic effects in the country. Plague is a virulent vector-borne zoonotic disease caused by Yersinia pestis and has potential to infect...

Food security remains a corner stone of every economy. This concept is defined as having both the physical and economic access to food that meets people's dietary needs as well as their food preferences. Attaining Food security has been a major problem world over and this problem has mainly...

Chronic MyeloidLeukaemia (CML) is consistently associated with a characteristic chromosome translocation called the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome. This translocation fuses sequences of theBreakpoint Cluster Region(BCR) gene from band q11 on chromosome 22 with regions of theAbelson(ABL) gene from...

The major challenge of intensive care in Zambia is limited availability of resources. With the increase in the number of intensive care units in the country, a tool to evaluate and compare the standard of care across these units could be used to help direct resources and provide quality...