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A bed census was carried out on 16th June 1998 in the University Teaching Hospital (UTH)wards to look into appropriate use of hospital beds. The main objectives of the study were to determine the extent of appropriate (Medically necessary) and inappropriate bed use and levels of care to patients...

This study investigates the aspects of syntactic tone in Lozi. It looks at the tones of words in citation form and what happens when they are placed in context. This involves two levels. The first is the Phonological level where the tones of words in each word class were marked for tone. The...

This study was carried out at the Department of Mass Communication in the University of Zambia and the Commonwealth Youth Programme Africa Centre (CYPAC). The objectives of the study were to find out what the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) had been and was doing to solve some of the HIV/AIDS...

This report is from a study whose principal objective was to assess the effectiveness of communication methods used for male involvement in Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV activities in health centres of Lusaka district. The study undertook to find out how much the male...

This study assesses the impact of Climate Change on water resources in the Lwitikila River located in Mpika District of Northern Zambia. In the past few years, downstream water users have had conflicts over the use of limited water resources in Lwitikila River. There are reports that the old...

This study assesses the perceptions of Lusaka youths on media coverage of HIV and AIDS issues affecting them and focuses on the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC). The aim of the study was to assess the perceptions of Lusaka youths on various HIV and AIDS youth programmes...

Infection with HIV ultimately results in profound immunodeficiency, in which patients may present with various AIDS – defining clinical conditions.The CD4+T-cell count is an important parameter to understand HIV-related opportunistic infections. In poor countries and populations with limited...

Introduction There is a shortage of systematically collected data on gastric cancer in Zambia. An audit carried out as preliminary work showed that there was a change in the epidemiology of gastric cancer since the early 1980s, and it was hypothesised that this change was linked to HIV infection....

Disclosure of a positive Human Immunodeficiency Virus result to a partner is an important step towards prevention of infection, early diagnosis and optimum care especially in the context of Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission. Little is known about the disclosure patterns of postnatal...

In malaria diagnosis, peripheral parasitaemia is used as an indicator of malaria severity. However, this does not quantify central sequestration, which is important in the pathogenesis of severe malaria. Intraleukocytic malaria pigment or haemozoin, recognizable within the cytoplasm of phagocytic...