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"Thinking too much" is a cultural idiom of distress identified across sub-Saharan Africa, including among people living with HIV (PLWH), which is associated with depression, substance use, and HIV medication nonadherence. Despite the relevance of mindfulness training to address thinking too much, improve HIV-related outcomes, and reduce substance use, efforts to adapt mindfulness training for this context and underserved populations more broadly have been limited.We explored in this context:...

We live in unprecedented times and are bombarded with various changes to normality and everyday usual business. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of university education in South Africa and the world. The move towards remote teaching has denied medical students to do their practical work in hospitals, science students to access their laboratories where they conduct their experiments as part of their coursework and has denied students a chance to gain information in...

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-Co2) COVID-19on training of ophthalmology trainees in Egypt and how they could overcome this effect. Method: Anonline based questionnaire was designed and distributed to a representative sample of ophthalmology trainees in Egypt; their answers were collected and analyzed. Results: A total of 574participants completed questionnaires (61.5%) were residents and (38.5%) were specialists. Amajority of the responders...

Drought and extreme weather conditions adversely affect the capacity of rural communities to support their livelihoods. They are also major causes of food scarcity in Northern Kenya. Inability to adapt to variable and changing local climate conditions and low levels of resilience have driven hunger and malnutrition-related diseases, affecting children and elderly in particular because of their high vulnerability in the population. In response to these conditions, the Government of Kenya in...

Introduction Community-based women’s health education groups may improve maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH); however, evidence from sub-Saharan Africa is lacking. Chamas for Change (Chamas) is a community health volunteer (CHV)-led, group-based health education programme for pregnant and postpartum women in western Kenya. We evaluated Chamas’ effect on facility-based deliveries and other MNCH outcomes. Methods We conducted a cluster randomised controlled trial involving 74 community...

Introduction Community-based women’s health education groups may improve maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH); however, evidence from sub-Saharan Africa is lacking. Chamas for Change (Chamas) is a community health volunteer (CHV)-led, group-based health education programme for pregnant and postpartum women in western Kenya. We evaluated Chamas’ effect on facility-based deliveries and other MNCH outcomes. Methods We conducted a cluster randomised controlled trial involving 74 community...

Introduction Community-based women’s health education groups may improve maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH); however, evidence from sub-Saharan Africa is lacking. Chamas for Change (Chamas) is a community health volunteer (CHV)-led, group-based health education programme for pregnant and postpartum women in western Kenya. We evaluated Chamas’ effect on facility-based deliveries and other MNCH outcomes. Methods We conducted a cluster randomised controlled trial involving 74 community...

Although case meetings on reported child maltreatment in Ghana often include children, parents and social workers, in most cases the views of children are not included in the decision making process. This is largely as a result of traditional cultural expectations where the child is an obedient recipient of adult decisions. Considering that cases reported are premised within the family, the study investigated parents’ views on how children’s opinions could be included in child protection...

The full scale intelligence quotient is a strong predictor of educational success. The aim of this study was to calculate the full scale intelligence quotient (FSIQ) of Moroccan rural students in the Safi region. the psychometric test Wechsler intelligence scale for childrenand adolescents -5th edition WISC V was used by administering the five indexes, namely the verbal comprehension index, visuospatial index, fluid reasoning index, working memory index and processing speed index, to compare...

Our study carried on Moroccan students from urban areas.Thebasis will be for calculating the full-scaleintelligence quotient FSIQ, which is positively, predicts school results, and determining the psychometric profiles of the samples participating in this study. By administering the fifteen subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children -5th Edition WISC V and comparing the results to the average of the Wechsler tests. We have administered all subtests ofWISC V, an individual...

Research Article| December 01, 2020 Misrepresentation of early Karoo Volcanism: A critical discussion of aspects of “De Wit et al., 2020. Pillow talk: Volcanic rocks of the Karoo that formed many leagues under the Gondwanan Sea. South African Journal of Geology, doi: 0.25131/sajg.123.0021” J.S. Marsh J.S. Marsh Department of Geology, Rhodes University, Makhanda, 6140, South Africa e-mail: goonie.marsh@ru.ac.za Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar South African Journal...

Low responsiveness and inflexibility were found to be a challenge to deprived universities in South Africa in promoting virtual learning environments (VLE) during COVID-19 lockdown. This study investigated the level of readiness in transitioning from contact classes to VLE; and to establish whether the university in this study moved at the same pace with other universities in South Africa. Just-In-Time Learning (JITL) theory and interpretivist paradigm informed the theoretical and...

Abstract Background The prevalence of dementia in Tanzania, as in other developing countries is progressively increasing. 1 Yet the screening instruments for the pre‐clinical stage of the diseases are lacking. This study examined the diagnostic accuracy of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment‐5‐minutes protocol (MoCA‐5‐min) among older adult in the rural Tanzania. Methods After cultural adaptation following Brislin’s approach, 2 the MoCA‐5‐min and the IDEA cognitive screening were concurrently...

This study explored the utility of the learner autonomy concept in the Zimbabwean O Level English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom focusing on three Gweru urban high schools of the Midlands Province. The researchers intended to establish whether learner autonomy was a reality or just a myth in Zimbabwean classrooms. A qualitative multiple case study design was applied focusing on teaching strategies, availability of resources, challenges faced and ways of optimising it. Questionnaires...

This paper aimed to explore the repercussions of Cyclone Idai on women in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe. There is a ubiquitous consensus in literature on gender and climate change that natural disasters have a different gender impact on men and women. In 2019, Zimbabwe was hit by torrential rains coupled with strong winds that triggered floods and mudslides, which resulted in loss of lives, displacements, destruction of infrastructure and disruption of livelihoods. This unprecedented...

African and coloured students continue to perform poorly both at public schools and institutions of higher learning.There are two main reasons for their weak performance -a lack of literacy and numeracy skills, and being under-prepared.This article reports on two findings of a study that was conducted at two high schools in the Western Cape Province.The one high school was a quintile 1, and the other a quintile 4 school.The study aimed to implement intervention strategies over a threeyear...

Arid regions of Africa are expanding by thousands of square kilometers a year, potentially disturbing pastoral routes that have been forged over a long period of time. This disturbance is often said to explain why “herder-farmer” conflicts have erupted in recent years, as pastoralists and agriculturalists compete for increasingly scarce resources. We examine this hypothesis by combining ecological and ethnographic data on the location of pastoral ethnic groups with grid-cell level data on...

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd livestocki.e., transhumant pastoralists -in Africa.Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship with sedentary agriculturalists whereby arable land is used for crop farming in the wet season and animal grazing in the dry season.Droughts can disrupt this arrangement by inducing pastoral groups to migrate to agricultural lands before the harvest, causing conflict to...