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This study is part of a series of education country status reports (CSRs) being prepared by World Bank staff in collaboration with national teams from various Sub-Saharan countries. The immediate objective is to enhance the knowledge base for policy development. More broadly, CSRs create a basis for engaging a diverse audience in dialogue on education sector policies and for developing a shared vision for the future. In Malawi, as in other low-income countries, two specific goals in...

Background Studies on job satisfaction and health have mainly been carried out among Caucasian populations. Similar studies are lacking in Nigeria. Aim To investigate the level of job satisfaction and its relationship to psychological disorder amongst Nigerian doctors. Methods All 190 doctors at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital were invited to participate in a cross-sectional study. The respondents completed two selfadministered questionnaires, a specifically designed (25-item)...

My experience of teaching the Rhodes University/Speciss College Environmental Education Course in Zimbabwe alerted me to a tension between the industry course participants who largely (although not entirely) wanted a skills/vocational training orientation and the course curriculum developers, who wanted a critical/theoretical/praxis-based orientation to the course. This paper is an attempt to offer some resolution of the dilemma this provided the course developers. I begin by briefly...

Abstract Problem: One of the most serious complications of bacterial meningitis, particularly in childhood, is sensorineural hearing loss; yet the mechanism of this hearing loss is not clearly understood. It is also known that the levels of TNF-¥a and IL-1¥â in CSF are significantly elevated in bacterial meningitis patients. This study was designed to evaluate the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the ototoxic effect of TNF-¥a and IL-1¥â and L-NAME injected into the CSF of guinea pigs. Methods:...

I am most pleased to write the foreword to this new collection of important articles in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on the devastating burden of malaria in Africa. The first supplement, “The Intolerable Burden of Malaria: A New Look at the Numbers,” published in 2001, was extremely popular and useful for educating people about the enormity of this scourge and mobilizing resources to battle against it. And I am delighted that the title of this supplement, “The...

Examination of 1829 children from 6 primary schools in coastal Tanzania revealed overall Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaria (mf) and circulating filarial antigen (CFA) prevalences of 17.3% and 43.7%, respectively. A randomized double-blind field trial with a single dose of ivermectin (150–200 μg/kg body weight) alone or in combination with albendazole (400 mg) was subsequently carried out among these children. Both treatment regimens resulted in a considerable decrease in mean mf intensities,...

On 30 December 1963, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) executive committee approved Bob Moses' proposal for a summer voter registration project involving hundreds of white volunteers. Initially intended to highlight the brutality inherent in Mississippi's culture and to register large numbers of disfranchised black voters, the plans expanded to include more long term and holistic methods of addressing civil rights that encompassed what SNCC and its sister organizations...

Anthony Simpson, ‘Half London’ in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school. Edinburgh: Cambridge University Press, for the International Africa Institute (paperback £16.95, ISBN 0 7486 1804 X). 2003, 224 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 3

Asthma is a chronic illness that affects 5% to 10% or about 5 million children in this country. Morbidity and rising mortality rates are of particular concern in minority children. This study addresses a serious knowledge deficit about the management of asthma in minority children by testing the effect of a school-based asthma education program on psychosocial and health outcomes of 8-13-year-old inner-city minority students. Although the mean scores of the treatment group were higher than...

Abstract Background: In Ethiopia training tutors in the health system are part of a major health programme. A previous study disclosed that tutors felt they lacked sufficient teaching skills. Aim: The Teaching Methodology Course (TMC) described here was designed to correct these deficiencies. The aim of the study was firstly to evaluate the usefulness of questionnaires in terms of TMC quality control and secondly to evaluate whether the subcourses differed in terms of self‐progress...

Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. The policymakers who came to power with Nelson Mandela in 1994 inherited and education system designed to further the racist goals of apartheid. Their massive challenge was to transform that system, which lavished human and financial resources on schools serving white students while systematically starving those serving African, coloured, and Indian learners,...

Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. The policymakers who came to power with Nelson Mandela in 1994 inherited and education system designed to further the racist goals of apartheid. Their massive challenge was to transform that system, which lavished human and financial resources on schools serving white students while systematically starving those serving African, coloured, and Indian learners,...

Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. The policymakers who came to power with Nelson Mandela in 1994 inherited and education system designed to further the racist goals of apartheid. Their massive challenge was to transform that system, which lavished human and financial resources on schools serving white students while systematically starving those serving African, coloured, and Indian learners,...

Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. The policymakers who came to power with Nelson Mandela in 1994 inherited and education system designed to further the racist goals of apartheid. Their massive challenge was to transform that system, which lavished human and financial resources on schools serving white students while systematically starving those serving African, coloured, and Indian learners,...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is an increasingly common cause of end- stage renal disease (ESRD) in Nigeria. We describe the clinical characteristics of Nigerian diabetics presenting with ESRD, as data obtained would provide baseline information for management policy formulation. Methods: Twenty- one diabetics (16 males and 5 females) with ESRD seen in the Nephrology Unit of the Jos University Teaching Hospital were studied. Both clinical and laboratory parameters were assessed. Results: The...

In recent years, popular media and researchers have given attention to gender inequality and education (Campbell and Sanders 1997). For example, a recent report by the Daily Independent supports this viewpoint in its headline: “600 Nigerian Girls Bag US Scholarship” (2003). Education and gender inequality in Nigeria have focused on a variety of physical, social, and cognitive contexts. Over the years, authorities have changed their theoretical platform. This has resulted in continuous...

To determine the frequency and pattern of genitourinary malignancies seen at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, GhanaA retrospective review of genitourinary malignancies seen at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital from 1980 to 1990 was undertaken. Data was obtained from the operating theatre register, histopathology reports, and patient case notes. Information retrieved included age and sex of patients, organ involved and laterality where appropriate and tumour type.548 genitourinary...