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Introduction Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is estimated to occur in (18%) of pregnant women in Africa despite universal supplementation programs being implemented since 2001, as recommended by the World Health Organisation. A lack of data on iron status and maternal factors associated with iron...

The purpose of the study was to explore on barriers to the enterprising of cooperatives in Sesheke District. This was against the background that cooperatives were not enterprising for over a decade. Thus, the study enquired on; what cooperatives were doing in their quest to enterprise, why they...

In healthy persons, blood glucose is maintained in the range 3.5 – 8.0 mmol/L. However, in Diabetes Mellitus (DM) chronic hyperglycemia is observed due to defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both. This study investigated glucose lowering effects of ethanolic leaf extracts of Cleome...

Child marriage, also referred to as early marriage is an emerging economic and health concerns across the world and remains a widespread problem especially in developing countries including Zambia. Zambia has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world with 31 per cent of women aged...

Conservation Agriculture has been recommended as a sustainable farming system for many crops in Zambia based on reported improvements in soil infiltration, moisture, soil carbon, microbial activity and reduced bulk density over time. However, the effects in groundnuts such as plant development,...

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of climate variability on pastoral farming and develop a Climate Change Education Programme (CCEP) to address the effects of Climate Variability on Pastoral farmers in Sinazongwe District of Southern Province of Zambia. The study was purely a...

This study proposes a localised approach to school safety and health management, using Sefula secondary school as a case study. In this regard, the aim of this study was to develop a localised school Safety and Health Manual by using ideas and practices of safety and health held by sampled...

Poor rainfall distribution, low soil calcium, soil acidity and low soil moisture stress contribute largely to low levels of groundnut productivity. Because the majority of groundnut farmers in Zambia are small-holder and have limited resources, they are not able to cope with these production...

The University of Zambia is a Public University which was formed by an Act of Parliament Number 66 and saw its first intake of students in 1965. From inception to 2009 the student made their payments manually and this had challenges on the part of students as they had to stand in long queues....

The practice of copper wire drawing has faced problems regarding process, quality and manufacturing cost and satisfying world market demand of drawn wires. Of great importance to the practitioner are problems due to the interaction of process parameters during wire drawing. The present research...