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Diagnosis of abortion in Zambia relies on clinical findings coupled with ultrasound examination. The treatment of choice in the first trimester is manual vacuum aspiration (MVA). Reducing the physical pain and anxiety during MVA is the ultimate goal of management for which, several drugs have...

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive inherited condition characterized by the inheritance of two abnormal genes coding for the formation of Haemoglobin and one of them is Haemoglobin s. Musculoskeletal manifestations are the commonest clinical presentations of both acute and...

The background of this study was anchored on the introduction of the use of local languages as a medium of instruction in primary schools from grade one to four by the Ministry of Education (2013). The study focused on practices in teaching and learning mathematics in multilingual class. The...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the practices of early childhood teachers for managing early childhood behavioural problems in Zambian early childhood schools. The objective of the study was to identify the most common behavioural problems exhibited by pre-school children and...

The Surgical Apgar Score (SAS) is a very easy and objective tool for triaging patients postsurgery. It can be used as an assessment tool for performance of hospitals, units or individual surgeons. However, not much research has been done to assess its utility in resource limited settings like...

Following an observation of lack of statistics locally, a retrospective study to determine the presentation, management and short-term outcomes of extradural spinal tumours from 2013 to 2016 at the University Teaching Hospital was conducted after approval from the University of Zambia Biomedical...

Anaemia is a public health problem globally affecting 293.1 million children and 28.5% of these children are in the sub Saharan Africa. The study was to determine the prevalence of anaemia and the associated risk factors of anaemia in children aged 6 months to 15 years admitted to the University...

Sexual assault contributes to the burden of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in women and children of all ages. In children, the isolation of a sexually transmitted organism may be the first indication that sexual assault has occurred whilst in adults, the risk of acquiring a sexually...

Gender based violence (GBV) is defined as an act of violence that results in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to a person. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that one in five of the world‟s female population has been physically and sexually abused at some time in...

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV), the causative agent of enzootic bovine leucosis (EBL), is a member of the family Retroviridae, and genus Deltaretrovirus. Whilst BLV has been associated with considerable economic losses in the cattle industry worldwide, there is paucity of information on the...