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The proposal by the South African Health Ministry to implement HIV testing and counselling (HTC) at schools in 2011 generated debates about the appropriateness of such testing. However, the debate has been between the Ministries of Education and Health, with little considerations of the students. The main aim of the study was to assess the students’ opinions and uptake of HIV testing and counselling in general, and the acceptability of the provision of HIV testing and counselling in schools....
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Objectives The study aimed to explore the factors facilitating and inhibiting female condom use among female university students in South Africa.
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I. INTRODUCTIONThe United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol were adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 13, 2006 and came into force on May 3, 2008. 1 This followed General Resolution 56/168 on December 1, 2001 that established an Ad Hoc Committee to consider proposals for a comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities based on the holistic principles...
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Access to primary and secondary education in Tanzania has drastically expanded in the past two decades. In response to this success, its ministry is now targeting improvements in educational quality through additional reform. Yet teacher absenteeism, physical abuse, overcrowding, lecture-based pedagogy and a system of accountability based primarily on state and district examinations centered on rote memorization impose great obstacles to students being prepared for future employment and...
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This article examined the influence of sexual content in popular media on the sexuality of public university adolescents. The survey utilised a researcher-made questionnaire to collect data from a random sample of 1580 adolescents from public universities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The questionnaire, Tertiary Institution Students’ Sexuality Questionnaire, had a reliability index of .86 for the sexual attitude scale and .82 for Students’ Exposure to Sexual content in the Media. Data...
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This paper examines the impact of donor support to Ghana's Basic Education sector since the 1987 Education Sector Reforms.It explores the extents to which donor support had contributed to the mitigating the challenges of basic education in Ghana in order to determine what remains.The paper draws on extensive literature sources and in-depth interviews with donor agencies and policymakers that are connected to the provision of Basic Education in Ghana.The data was collected for a doctoral...
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The purpose of this symposium is to demonstrate and critique the ways in which adult learners teach and learn activism for social justice in African Canadian communities. Presenters from across Canada draw on their own qualitative research projects that involve adult learners of African ancestry who learn and teach in community settings. These research projects utilise a range of research methods, including participatory research, story-telling, talking circles, and focus groups. Each...
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Mozambique suffers from critical shortages of healthcare workers including non-physician clinicians, Tecnicos de Medicina Geral (TMGs), who are often senior clinicians in rural health centres. The Mozambique Ministry of Health and the International Training and Education Center for Health, University of Washington, Seattle, revised the national curriculum to improve TMG clinical knowledge and skills. To evaluate the effort, data was collected at graduation and 10 months later from...
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Assessing the future of biodiversity under changing climates is plagued by uncertainty. Drawing on data for sub-Saharan African vertebrates, I focus on some of the major sources of uncertainty surrounding bioclimatic envelope model projections and on possible ways to address them. I examine the uncertainty arising from alternative climate projections and model algorithms and I summarise it through consensus building. To examine ecological uncertainty, I present a framework for teasing apart...
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Assessing the future of biodiversity under changing climates is plagued by uncertainty. Drawing on data for sub-Saharan African vertebrates, I focus on some of the major sources of uncertainty surrounding bioclimatic envelope model projections and on possible ways to address them. I examine the uncertainty arising from alternative climate projections and model algorithms and I summarise it through consensus building. To examine ecological uncertainty, I present a framework for teasing apart...
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This study sought to establish the role of assistive technologies on quality educational outcomes of students with visual impairment in Kisumu County, Kenya. The study adopted a mixed methods research design. The target population constituted 743 students, 11 principals, 11 deputy principals, and 19 Special Needs teachers making a total of 784. Purposive sampling was used to select 11 principals, 11 deputy principals, 19 SNE teachers and 120 students with visual impairments yielding a total...
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The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of teachers’ demographic variables on implementation of Information Communication Technology in public secondary schools in Nyeri Central district, Kenya. The dependent variable was implementation of ICT and the independent variables were teachers’ teaching experience and training. The research design used was descriptive survey design. The target population was 275 teachers working in 15 public secondary schools in Nyeri Central...
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This study sought to examine the effect of principals’ leadership styles on students’ academic performances in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) Examinations in public secondary schools in Homa-bay County, Kenya. The study was premised on a combination of modified Bossert’s framework and Pitner’s moderated theoretical frameworks which contend that principal’s role is influenced by intertwined factors including external antecedent variables and prevailing external environmental...
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Maternal mortality ratio in Nigeria is still high despite the initiation of the safe motherhood initiative. The poor maternal health situation has been attributed to inadequate use of maternal health care services. This study examines whether community factors moderated the association between individual factors and the use of skilled ANC. Data on 17560 women aged 15-49 years drawn from 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey were used. Multilevel logistic regression models were used for...