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Malaria is a disease of great public health importance in Zambia. It is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is endemic in all nine provinces. The malaria transmission paradigms may be higher in urban populations than in peri-urban and rural population and peri-urban areas tend to become...

This is a clinical trial which was carried out at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka from the 1st of July to the 31st of December,1994. It involved treatment of burns in forty children using gamma irradiated amniotic membrane produced at the hospital.The results showed that it is feasible...

This thesis comprises 5 chapters. The first chapter is concerned with the general problem of setting up approximations to arbitrary functions by linear combinations of sets of functions of known structure. The second chapter discusses the mathematical basis of the various approximation criteria...

Marriage, as everyone knows, is a bond or a bargain full of complex issues. It is a transaction between two interested parties determined by the Jural or moral ordinances which bind it in its social setting. The traditional marriages among the Tumbuka fall under oral literature which if viewed...

The study was focused on investigating the participatory communication strategies that are used in the utilisation of the Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) and the extent to which community members participate in CDF financed projects in Kabwata Constituency. Established in 1995, the funds...

This study examined and assessed the sources of workers' satisfaction in relation to the factors in the work environment among Zambian workers who are under the ZIMCO group of companies. A random sampling of organizations under ZIMCO was, used. This is. that names; of all organizations, under...

Drawing on both recent short story theory and contemporary African literary criticism, this essay offers a brief history of short story writing in Zambia, mindful to highlight literary and extra-literary influences on the main thematic and technical trends, and subjects selected works to detailed...

This report is an account of the author's personal experiences and investigations with some of the Executive Board members of Nyemba Ward Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited (NWMCSL) (Appendix 1) and sixteen small-scale female farmer members of the society (Appendix 2). The author set out...

Knowledge is the foundation for practice. Most nutrition education programmes operate on the premise that nutritional knowledge of mothers can have an impact on the nutritional status of their children. Literature review revealed that most mothers who had access to the nutrition education...