Ministry of Health: Recent submissions
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The psychological impact of child sexual abuse on primary caregivers
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)Research on child sexual abuse (CSA) suggests that support and protection from the caregiver provide the child an effective platform for quick recovery and improvement in mental health and social functioning. Nonetheless, ... -
Aphrodisiac Properties of Mutimba Vula and Mwana Apeluke Herbs sold in Lusaka, Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2017)Male potency has been a talk of many years since humanity existed and the use of various kinds of substances to stimulate sexual desire has been done for many years. Many plant-based concoctions have been released on the ... -
Acute Poisoning in the Community and its Associated Mortality at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2017)Acute poisoning is a common event in the community. Despite the high prevalence of acute poisoning in the community, there are very few studies done on the subject in Zambia. Lack of research on acute poisoning has resulted ... -
Socio Demographic Determinants of Maternal Health Service Utilization among Women 15 to 49 Years in Zambezi District in Northwestern Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2017)Maternal mortality recorded in Zambia is one of the highest in the world. According to the 2013-14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey , the mortality ratio was 398/100,000.This ratio is unacceptably high. The aim of this ... -
Medical Equipment Standard Lists for 3rd Level Hospitals
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2012-09)Our health services have been stratified into various levels in order to provide the range of health care from primary to specialist care as close to the families as possible. Each level of care is designed to provide ... -
Cervical Meningomyelocoele: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2017)Cervical meningomyelocoele is a rare neural tube defect accounting for 1-5% of all neural tube defects. Very few cases have been reported in literature. A 4day old female patient was presented with a cervical cystic lesion. ... -
Anaemia in Pregnancy among Pregnant Women in Lusaka District, Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2017)This study investigated the problem of anaemia in pregnancy and its associated factors. Methods: The study involved 216 women booking for antenatal care between September 2015 and January 2016. A structured questionnaire ... -
A Case Series Report of Tuberculosis Patients with Vitamin D Deficiency in Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2017)An association of Vitamin D deficiency with Tuberculosis remains a valid assumption. It has been observed that TB is highly prevalent in certain ethnic groupings and regions of the world. Populations with darker skins are ... -
Binge Drinking and Psychomotor Performance in Female Social Drinkers of Kalingalinga in Lusaka, Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2017)Consuming large amounts of alcohol on an irregular basis is a common form of alcohol misuse among female adolescents and young women. This form of alcohol misuse is called binge drinking (BD) and is associated with harm ... -
Bipolar disorder in child psychiatric practice:
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)Bipolar disorder in children is unrecognized for many reasons including lack of awareness, diagnostic confusion, and the different clinical picture in children. The disorder has not been well studied in prepubertal children, ... -
Barriers to healthcare access and coping mechanisms among Sub-Saharan African migrants living in Bangkok, Thailand
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)Access to health care services among migrant populations is a major public health concern. Migrants' health profiles, values and beliefs may differ from those of the host population and present a potential to increased ... -
The spectrum of renal diseases in HIV infected adults presenting with renal insufficiency at the University Teaching Hospital,Lusaka, Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)The spectrum of renal diseases in HIV infected adults undergoing biopsy is vast. Previous studies have indicated that HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) is the commonest diagnosis in HIV-infected patients presenting with ... -
Non-invasive ventilation in HIV positive patients with sepsis and respiratory failure in the adult medical emergency unit of the university teaching hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)Sepsis due to respiratory disease is one of the main complications of HIV/AIDS. Audit data from the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia indicate that pneumonia and tuberculosis ... -
Accessing adolescent sexual and reproductive health services among undocumented migrants in South Africa
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)Adolescent sexual and reproductive health access continues to dominate the development agenda since the historic 1994 Cairo Conference and becomes a huge public health concern for the increasing diverse of undocumented ... -
Successful multi-partner response to a cholera outbreak in Lusaka, Zambia 2016
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)A Cholera outbreak was reported in Lusaka district between February and May 2016, with 1,079 cases and 20 deaths recorded in the per-urban areas. Bauleni catchment area alone reported 441 (40.9%) case patients with case ... -
Progress of WHO Zambia towards the WHO reforms through transformation agenda
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)WHO is going through reforms which started in 2011. The Reform process intensified when the WHO was put to the test during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014. Weaknesses observed raised widely expressed concern about ... -
The Lunar effect on delivery and other birth outcomes in rural Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2017)It is a widely held belief that the period of a full moon is associated with higher birth rates compared to periods when the moon is not full. We investigated whether more births occurred during a full moon in a rural ... -
A histological autopsy Study of the thyroid gland in HIV infected adults at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)Despite the high prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Zambia, not much is known about the spectrum of thyroid lesions in patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Virus, (AIDS). Patients with ... -
Immunohistochemical expression of Vitamin-D Receptor in oral and skin squamous cell carcinoma of a black African Sub-population
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2017)The nuclear vitamin D receptor (VDR) is involved in multiple pathways that have a role to play in the biology of cancer. Recent evidence indicates that the active form of vitamin D (1alpha, 25-dihydroxycholecalciferol) ... -
The association between Antiretroviral Therapy with depression and health related quality of life in patients infected with HIV in Kasempa, Zambia
(University of Zambia, Medical Library, 2016)Many HIV-infected patients are accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Zambia. This has enabled them to live longer. However, it is necessary to determine whether such improvements are accompanied with parallel ...
