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1.0 Abstract Introduction The effectiveness of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) relies on a strict adherence to it. To achieve optimum therapeutic levels and reduce drug resistance requires levels ≥95% adherence. As such, identifying factors to adherence is essential. We sought to determine factors...

Employing both quantitative and qualitative paradigms, the study sought to investigate factors affecting male involvement in antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC services in both rural and urban settings of Zambia. Despite the efforts by the Ministry of Health in ensuring that national...

Many studies are carried out to investigate factors affecting pupils' academic performance. The focus of this research is that pupils' performance in junior secondary leaving examinations in selected day secondary schools in Mwense District leaves much to be desired. The Ministry of General...

Cervical cancer is one of the major health challenges amongst women in Zambia. While cervical cancer screening has been available in Zambia since 2006 with a relatively wide coverage in Lusaka District, it remains questionable whether women with disabilities have access to these cervical cancer...

This study focused on factors affecting the participation and retention of girls in secondary education in selected day secondary schools in Solwezi. The study attempted to establish factors affecting girls in day secondary schools in light of the newly upgraded day secondary schools which had...

This study was conducted on the factors affecting the provision of quality education in community schools of Mumbwa district. The study used descriptive design with qualitative and quantitative method. The study used qualitative design which is interactive in nature, in order to come up with...

Background Diarrhea is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, especially among under-five children. Globally, as many as 800,000 children die each year from severe dehydration resulting from diarrhea, with most deaths occurring in developing countries including sub-Saharan region....

Introduction: Ensuring patients are adequately hydrated is an essential part of nursing care but the performance assessment and nursing audit reports demonstrated a gap in the documentation of the post-operative patients fluid balance charts at Mansa General Hospital (MGH). The main objective of...

Objectives: Infertility is a public health problem which in Africa south of the Sahara affects up to 40 percent of women. As such, infertility has devastating psychosocial consequences on affected couples. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 60-80 million infertile couples...

Background Factors associated with maternal death are important to understand because they are an essential measure of women’s health and indicative of the performance of health care systems in any community globally. This study aimed to analyse the risk factors for maternal death in Lundazi...