Medical Journal of Zambia: Recent submissions

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    • Urinary schistosomiasis scourge among rural school Children in Chitongo area, Southern Zambia 

      Chishimba, and Others (medical Journalo of Zambia, 2007-10)
      The study was carried out to assess the prevalence of schistosomiasis infection among school children in Chitongo area. A survey was carried out at three primary schools in different locations in Chitongo area, ...

    • A Cool Storage Pot for Insulin in Rural Africa 

      AIlen, S.C. (Medical Journal of Zambia., 1982-11)
      Patients with insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) who live in the rural areas of developing countries have to contend with a number of problems which interfere with the control of their ...

    • Ectopic Cilia - A Rare Anomaly 

      Madhu, K. (Medical Journal of Zambia., 1982-10)
      Ectopic cilia, a rare disorder (Duke Elder 1964) of congenital positional anomaly of one or more hair follicles, where lashes may grow outwards from chin or conjunctiva. In this article we report such a case arising from ...

    • A hospital out-patient study of bronchal asthma in Zambia 

      Allen, S. C.; Power, J. (Medical Journal of Zambia., 1983-10)
      The clinical features of 94 Zambian patients with moderate or severe bronchial asthma were studied and were found to be similar in most respects to those in other tropical countries. The patient's symptoms were ...

    • The distance factor in the use of psychiatric facilities 

      Haworth, A. (Medical Journal of Zambia., 1980-12)
      When the Zambian mental health service was being established it was realized that an effort ought to be made to establish general hospital units serving local populations. However, distances are great and the ...

    • Sexually transmitted diseases in Lusaka 

      Ratnam, A.V. (Medical Journal of Zambia., 1980-08)
      This is a preliminary epidemiological report on sexually transmitted diseases in Zambia. An analysis of data derived from a sample study of 1,000 consecutive female and 5,000 male S.T.D. patients ...

    • Adenocarcinoma of The Kidney in a 17 Year Old Zambian Male 

      Elem, B.; Patil, P.S.; Patel, J. (Medical Journal of Zambia, 1983-10)
      A case of adnocarcinoma of the kidney in a 17 year old Zambia male has been presented; the rarity of this tumour in children emphasized. It has been suggested that one should not altogether exclude renal cell ...

    • Posttraumatic Stress among Women with HIV in Zambia 

      Menon, J.A.; Malambo, C.; Nilsson, D.; Arnison, T. (Medical Journal of Zambia., 2017)
      This Journal article examines whether HIV-Positive women in Lusaka District, Zambia, displays a higher degree of PSTD-Symptoms than HIV-Negative control group. The study targeted 50 HIV positive women from four ART Clinics ...

    • Serum Selenium levels in Essential hypertension among adults at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia 

      Chisulo, A.C.; Lambwe, N.; Sijumbila, G.; Mukosha, M. (Medical journal of Zambia, 2017)
      In Zambia essential hypertension is one of the commonest and non prevalent non communicable diseases. In the current medical literature it is not clear on the serum selenium levels among essential hypertensive patients in ...

    • Maternal Health and Child Survival Rates in Zambia: A Comparative Community Study 

      Freund, P. J.; Kalumba, K. (Medical Journal of Zambia, 1984-06)
      This paper presents the summary results of maternal/reproductive data and child mortality patterns collected in two rural communities in Zambia. The data derives from an on-going, ...

    • Possible encephalitis following B.C.G vaccination 

      Savage, F. M. A. (Medical Journal of Zambia, 1967-04)
      Four cases of an encephalitis-like illness 3 week after BCG vaccination are described, and alternative explanations of the occurrence are discussed. As none of these explanations account for all the features of the illnesses, ...

    • The Sigmoid Colon in Zambians 

      Katzarski, M. (Medical Journal of Zambia, 1980-02)
      Volvulus of the sigmoid colon is common among Zambians where it is the commonest cause of large gut obstruction (Subrananian and Wosornu,1979). The aetiology is unknown, but there are various theories ...

    • CT and Ultrasound in the diagnosis of orbital dermoid cysts - A retrospective study at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka 

      Min, L. C. (Medical Journal of Zambia, 2008-04)
      To evaluate the use of Computed Tomography (CT) and Ultrasound (US) to diagnose orbital dermoid cyst and compare the characteristic features of CT and US in detection of the lesions. CT and Ultrasound were used to evaluate ...

    • Lymphosarcoma of the Stomach: A Case Report. 

      Mampilly, J. (Medical Journal of Zambia, 1977-08)
      Lymphosarcoma of the stomach is a rare, forming 1 to 5% of the total gastric neoplasms (AIIen et al. 1954), Azopardi and Menzies (1960). The pancity of lympoid tissue in the stomach accounts ...

    • Asymptomatic bacteriuria of pregnancy in Zambia 

      Jenkinson, D. (Medical Journal of Zambia, 1974)
      A survey of 500 Zambian antenatal patients revealed a 3.8% incidence of asymptomatic bacteriuria. Interest in asymptomatic bacteriuria has increased since large groups of individuals were studied by ...

    • Adaptable lessons learnt on procurement from deployment to a deadly emergency outbreak: The case of Sierra Leone during Ebola outbreak 2015 

      Siboonde, M.; Musumali, M.; Sikazwe, A.; Mufunda, J. (Medical Journal of Zambia, 2016)
      The WHO has standard operating procedures for procurement, travel and logistics for use at country level. Some of the guidance is waived during public health emergencies of international concern. Practical acumen on using ...

    • The Healthcare worker: Rural retention, retraining and professional development 

      Kachimba, J. S.; Yikona, J. I. N. M. (Medical Journal of Zambia., 2008-01)
      Zambia, like many sub-Saharan countries, has gross disparities between levels of care between urban and rural areas. The noticeable effect of this scenario on health care delivery in our rural areas is profoundly negative. ...

    • Zambia's participation in the WHO collaborative project on recording health problems triaxially:the physical, psychological and social components of primary health care. 

      Freund, P. J.; Kalunba, K. (Medical Journal of Zambia., 1982-10)
      There has been increasing recognition by health researchers and clinicians of the importance of social and psychological factors in illness. Moreover, the recent emphasis on primary health care has prompted ...

    • Infant mortality in the Gwembe Valley 

      Unknown author (Medical Journal of Zambia, 1974)
      The Gwembe Valley lies in the Southern Province of Zambia and has been the subject of intense sociological and anthropological study (Colson 1967,Scudder 1968). The site of this survey was the upper Gwembe Valley, a ...

    • Abdominal actinomycosis 

      Elem, B.; Sinha, S. N.; Parmar, J.; Rao, B. A. (Medical jornal of zambia, 1981-11)
      Actinomycosis is an uncommon chronic suppurative disease with a worldwide distribution. The causative organism, Actinomyces Israeli, presently classified as a gram +ve bacteria (Muir, 1975) is ...