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Bacteraemia is a relatively common event in HIV-infected patients, especially in late infection. Studies in Africa have shown that more than 23% of AIDS patients have bacteraemia but there is paucity of data from Nigeria.Blood samples from 67 consecutive patients with AIDS attending the Lagos University Teaching Hospital between April and August 2000 were cultured. Temperature, ESR, Full blood count, and where possible CD4 counts were obtained. Socio-demographic details were also recorded....

New scientific research fields are evolving on a yearly basis but some parts of the African continent are less aware. Thus, there arises the need for a suitable implementation strategy in introducing the basic components of an emerging scientific field to some part of the African populace through the development of an online distance education learning tool. This emerging field is known as bioinformatics. This research work was instrumental in elucidating the need for a suitable...

Background: Congestive cardiac failure (CCF) has emerged as a major public health problem worldwide and imposes an escalating burden on the health care system.Objective: To determine the causes and mortality rate of CCF in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), south Nigeria, over a five-year period from January 2001 to December 2005.Methods: A retrospective study of CCF cases were identified from the admission and discharge register of the medical wards of UPTH and the...

In this article, Paris explores the deep linguistic and cultural ways in which youth in a multiethnic urban high school employ linguistic features of African American Language (AAL) across ethnic lines. The author also discusses how knowledge about the use of AAL in multiethnic contexts might be applied to language and literacy education and how such linguistic and cultural sharing can help us forge interethnic understanding in our changing urban schools. The article not only fosters an...

(2009). My Sister's Keeper: A Qualitative Examination of Mentoring Experiences Among African American Women in Graduate and Professional Schools. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 80, No. 5, pp. 510-537.

Rapid changes in the Nigerian economy in recent years have brought about obvious transformation in the labour market and in the nature of many jobs. Using questionnaire data obtained from three hundred secondary and tertiary institution’s students, this study explored the extent to which these young people are appreciating this trend through finding out their level of occupational and labour market information awareness. The results showed that most of the students are not aware of recent...

Environmental studies on global climate have revealed that human-related activities have contributed greatly to the increase in greenhouse gases which has resulted to the increase in global temperature and thereafter the global climatic cycle. Although not all disasters are linked to climate change, the most devastating of all disasters and their effects and increase in magnitude have been proved to have a direct link with climate change, and that is flooding. In the case of the Ayigya...

Aims and Method As part of a pilot project, one of the authors spent 3 months undertaking clinical work, teaching and research in a large psychiatric hospital in Accra, Ghana. the other acted as a UK-based mentor. Both report on the training value of the experience. Results It was possible to assimilate into the local healthcare system and effect some modest but sustainable changes. the experience broadened the trainee's understanding of psychiatry, cultural influences and healthcare...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes account for over one third of the mortality difference between African Americans and white patients. The increased CVD risk in African Americans is due in large part to the clustering of multiple CVD risk factors. The current study is aimed at improving CVD outcomes in African-American adults with diabetes by addressing the modifiable risk factors of systolic blood pressure , glycosolated hemoglobin, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. A sample...

In the United States, clade B is the predominant human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) subtype, whereas in sub-Saharan Africa, clades A, C, and D are the predominant subtypes. HIV subtype may have an impact on HIV disease progression. The effect of HIV subtype on the risk of dementia has, to our knowledge, not been examined. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between HIV subtype and the severity of HIV-associated cognitive impairment among individuals initiating...

This paper presents a comparative study of private returns to schooling in Egypt, Iran, and Turkey using similar survey data and a uniform methodology. We employ three surveys for each country that span nearly two decades, ranging from 1987 to 2006. Our aim is to learn from survey data about the signals of rewards that individuals use in their decisions to invest in education. So we pay special attention to differences across countries and over time in the institutions of education and labor...

Human activities exert many pressures on the quality of groundwater, and advanced assessment programmes are needed to design sustainable water management strategies. To contribute to this challenge, the nitrate pollution problem of groundwater wells in the small scale farming systems of the Niayes region in Senegal is assessed and explained in terms of well characteristics and land use properties. A field campaign was performed in 2007 to collect basic background data of the small scale...

We study students placement in Egyptian colleges under the current demand/supply placement mechanism implemented in Egypt (e-mechanism). We show that the e-mechanism is not Pareto efficient nor strategy proof and, moreover, it can not be improved to accommodate Pareto efficiency nor strategy proofness. The final conclusion is that it is better, from an efficiency point of view, to adopt a matching algorithm, like the Gale-Shapley mechanism, in students placement.

The Series on South Africa in The Lancet is a crucial analysis of how the country's health-care system has performed since the end of apartheid. The Series examines: the health-care system, 1 Coovadia H Jewkes R Barron P Sanders D McIntyre D The health and health system of South Africa: historical roots of current public health challenges. Lancet. 2009; (published online August 25.)https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60951-X Summary Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (804) Google Scholar...

ABSTRACT There is a well‐acknowledged communication or knowledge gap between scientists and decision‐makers. Many scientists who take on the challenge of narrowing this gap operate on the understanding that their role is to communicate their findings in a one‐way flow of information: from science to decision‐makers. However, to be effective scientists must engage in an ongoing social learning process with decision‐makers, and regard themselves as facilitators, and also as one among many...

Abstract There is a growing body of literature in examining the experiences of graduate students and faculty of color in education. This paper will provide a review of recent and relevant research on the experiences of graduate students and faculty of color, particularly those attending predominately white institutions (PWIs). Additionally, findings from a recent study of African‐American doctoral students in special education will be discussed. Finally, the author will assert the need for...