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This study was carried out in order to determine factors that may influence anti-retroviral therapy (ART) adherence. The main objective was to identify factors that can be used to predict adherence in patients taking ARVs. Specific objectives were to identify associations between patients'...

Thirty two (32) patients with AIDS or ARC who were sputum negative for mycobacteriura tuberculosis and non productive pulmonary infiltrates underwent one of the two diagnostic evaluation. It underwent bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and 15 nebulized saline induced sputum. Three specimens...

The commonest causes of admission to University Teaching Hospital - Children wing are gastroenteritis, respiratory infections, anaemia, malnutrition and malaria. Twenty-eight percent of these admissions are seropositive for HIV-1. Since 1990 respiratory infections have constituted 28% of the...

This study is a comparative analysis of deixis in Citonga and English. Deixis is a Greek word which means "pointing" using language. The exercise was carried out with a view to establishing the similarities and differences between the deictic systems of these two languages. In particular, five...

Some people argue that there is a difference in the way the government owned media and the private media report political issues. This study was conducted to determine how the press coverage of Zambia's first, President Dr. Kenneth Kaunda's arrest, detention, trial and subsequent release differed...

The study was conducted to determine and characterize grain yield, grain yield stability, uniformity of three way cross(TWC), single cross (SC) hybrids and open pollinated (OP) varieties of sorghum and relate their grain yield to morphological and physiological attributes via leaf area index and...

This comparative study between indigenous Zambian women and Zambian women of Asian origin tried to ascertain the extent to which women gained economic power/independence by either gaining access to credit or just being wage earners. For this purpose the researcher examined the extent of influence...

Helminthosis is a very important disease condition aflfecting the poultry industry, especially the traditionally reared free ranging chickens. The traditionally reared poultry farming system constitutes over 50% of the poultry industry in Zambia (Hameenda, 1985), however, very little work has...

The purpose of the study was to compare the performance between urban and rural Grade 9 school pupils in the Junior Secondary School Leaving Examinations in basic schools in Senanga District.Two objectives guided the study namely, to establish if there was any difference in performance between...

This study sought to compare reading performance of pupils with and without preschool background in relation to the New Break Through to Literacy (NBTL). The following were the objectives. To establish whether there is a difference in reading between preschool and non-preschool pupils; to...