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This study develops a typology of psychological problems reported during HIV/AIDS counselling. This typology provides a framework for training paraprofessional counsellors (PPCs) in East Africa.Study participants included 307 Kenyans tested for HIV at any of six clinics in Nairobi specialising in STDs, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Pre-test, post-test, and follow-up counselling was provided by 16 PPCs who are themselves HIV-positive. Data consisted of demographic, physical and...
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A total of 489 stool specimens were collected from school children aged 6-11 years. The target area is overcrowded, with improper sewage disposal system and low socioeconomic standards. A questionnaire was designed to include relevant informations. Each stool specimen was processed by the direct smear microscopy, zinc sulphate flotation technique and formol-ether sedimentation technique. The present study revealed an overall prevalence at 27.6%. Six parasites were detected. Giardia lamblia...
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Environmental Impacts of Heavy Metals in Agroecosystems and Amelioration Strategies in Oceania - K.G. Tiller, M.J. McLaughlin, and A.H.C. Roberts Environmental Concerns of Pesticides in Soil and Groundwater and Management Strategies in Oceania - B.K.G. Theng and R.S. Kookana and A. Rahman Metal Pollution of Soil and Groundwater and Remediation Strategies in Japan - M. Chino Impact of Radionuclides on Soil, Groundwater and Crops and Radionuclide Cleanup in Japan - S. Uchida and Y. Ohmomo...
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The prevalence of type 2 diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance and associated risk factors were compared in sample surveys in Africa and the Caribbean with the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES-III) from the United States. A total of 856 Nigerians, 1286 Jamaicans, and 1827 US blacks were included in the study. Body mass index (BMI) increased in a stepwise fashion across the three populations groups, ie, 23 kg/m2 in Nigerians, 26 kg/m2 in Jamaicans, and 28 kg/m2 in US blacks....
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Blood transfusion therapy is often under-utilised in feline practice in South Africa. However, it is a technique that can be safely and effectively introduced in practice. Cats have naturally occurring allo-antibodies against the blood type that they lack, which makes blood typing, or alternatively cross-matching, essential before transfusions. Feline blood donors must be carefully selected, be disease free and should be sedated before blood collection. The preferred anticoagulant for feline...
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A study on the effects of urbanization on the nutritional status of primary school children aged 5–10 years was carried out in Lagos. A total of 328 children and their parents were studied with the aid of a questionnaire, anthropometric measurements of weights and heights and stool microscopy. The study revealed a prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) among the children to be 37.9%. 125 (38.2%) of them were found to have weight-for-height below −2SD (standard deviation) signifying...
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Graduates of the Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Botswana were surveyed with the aim of determining their characteristics, the relevance of their training to their present tasks and their perceptions of the curriculum of
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Using social history methodology, this article examines the influence of race and place on nurse education and employment after World War II.Comparing and contrasting the postwar experiences of foreign and African American nurses more specifically, it argues that local rather than national hiring patterns have sustained low rates of minority participation in nursing. Despite repeated efforts to diversify the nurse workforce by race, ethnicity, class, and gender, 89% and 93% percent ot: the...
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Using Kenya as a case study, the paper demonstrates how indigenous African languages have suffered delegitimization and devaluation in education both in colonial and post-colonial Africa. Ethnographic data from Kenya are presented to show how the use of English as the medium of education contributes to differential educational treatments. It is argued that this leads to the perpetuation of social inequalities. The paper advances the argument that indigenous African languages should be given...
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(1999). Change and continuity in South African education: the impact of policy. African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 87-103.
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The achievement of equity is a central component of attempts to restructure education in postapartheid South Africa. But recent efforts to do so have faced significant challenges. This article traces the impact, consequences, and contradictions of recent initiatives to achieve equity through teacher redeployment and rationalization policies and provides two main explanations for their contradictory short-term outcomes: one related to the technical-rational approach underlying the...
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Abstract The 1996 South African constitution guarantees that the government will promote and protect the languages of the San and the Khoe. Of the scores of San and Khoe languages spoken by indigenous peoples when Europeans first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century, only a handful survive today. The surviving languages are all at risk of dying out in the next generation. The author looks at the conditions that are causing language death, and the possible types of...