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Background: Typhoid fever remains one of the causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Developing countries are the most affected, due to poor water supply and sanitation delivery services provision. In Zambia, the resurgence of typhoid started in 2008, since then the infection has been in...

The University of Zambia clinic in an effort to ensure that quality health care is provided to the University of Zambia Community the clinic keeps a number of records about the demography, medical history, diagnosis and treatment of this community. All these records are kept in a manual system,...

Organizations in this digital age deal with a large number of papers in their day-to-day activities. Much of this paper is legal or confidential documentation, and it is a statutory requirement that they be preserved for a pre-specified number of years. Statutory or otherwise, paper documents...

This study aimed to investigate unsafe abortion, which is more prevalent in most third world countries and contributes significantly to maternal morbidity and mortality. Majority of patients treated for induced abortion are adolescents, yet their knowledge and perceptions on unsafe abortion are...

This study identified factors influencing contraceptive use among the rural men and women of Kazungula district. Specific objectives included; establishing fertility aspirations in Kazungula district, identifying myths and misconceptions that influence contraceptive use in Kazungula district, and...

Zambia is endowed with a great variety of natural resources. For instance, Zambia has good climate with a favourable rainfall pattern; this provides sufficient recharge for the surface and ground water resources. In spite of the sufficient surface and ground water resources, accessibility to...

Water is the primary source of life and livelihoods. The survival of both rural and urban communities depends on water use for agriculture, fishing, livestock, domestic consumption and energy production. To enhance accessibility to the life supporting commodity for all, the water governance...

'This research is concerned with the water supply situation in Chelstone The study area Chelstone is about 7 krn east of the central business district of Lusaka. Chelstone Township like other urban areas in Lusaka ha* experienced an increase in population The expansion in population has led to an...

Urban poor women play key roles in the development of the health sector especially in issues of HIV/AIDS. Meanwhile, Zambian women have for a long time been marginalized in this sector. Women are marginalized in the sense that access to health and education facilities is not as easy for them as...

The forms of workers’ education offered to support staff at the University of Zambia and the challenges encountered in implementing them were not clearly known. This study, therefore, sought to find out the forms of workers' education that were offered to support staff to enable them acquire...