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The goal of training health professionals is to assist them obtain the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for the provision of safe and high-quality health services to clients. At the time of this study, there was no core curriculum for training Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing students (KRCHN) and yet they sit the same Nursing Council final examination. This descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken during the students' 3rd block sessions in June and July 2003 and it...

Assessment of quality from the patient's perspective could be a method of aiding improvement of services to achieve total quality management. This study set out to determine the level of knowledge of radiotherapy among patients and assess their attitude to the radiotherapy services provided at the Oncology clinic of the Department of Radiotherapy, Lagos University Teaching Hospital Nigeria. Data collection was by self-administered questionnaires using a systematic random sampling technique...

This study explored the problem of sexual coercion from the perspectives of 77 young people aged 14-2 7 in Ibadan, Nigeria, the behaviours they perceive to be sexually coercive and the con texts in which these occur through four narrative workshops. Participants were drawn from two secondary schools and 15 apprentice workshops. All four groups identified similar coercive behaviours and developed narratives of the events that typically lead up to them. Behaviours included rape, unwanted...

In South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, young people, especially women, are at high risk due to an apparent gap between awareness and practice. In repeated peer group discussions with girls aged 14-15 and boys aged 16-79, we explored influences on safe sex behaviour. Separate male and female safe sex paradigms emerged, with boys less likely to perceive themselves as 'at risk' and more likely to use condoms. Girls had not used condoms, would have preferred to delay sexual relationships and...

Abstract This study examined middle and high school students' perceptions of a weeklong science experience with nanotechnology and atomic force microscopy. Through an examination of student self assessments and their writing, the study allowed us to examine some of the issues that may contribute to discrepancies that are seen between European‐American and African‐American students in science. The results of the study showed that after instruction, African‐American students were significantly...

Samples of soil from yards and stool from pupils in six public and private primary schools in Samaru, Zaria were examined for geohelminh eggs towards highlighting the public health significance of contaminating soil with faeces. Of the 1,120 soil and 800 stool sample examined using the ZnSO4 centrifugal floatation technique and microscopy, 12.0% and 52.0% were positive, respectively. Eggs of Ascaris sp (4.6%), Trichuris sp (4.0%) hookworm (2.8%,) Toxocara sp (0.4%), and Strongyloides sp...

Samples of soil from yards and stool from pupils in six public and private primary schools in Samaru, Zaria were examined for geohelminh eggs towards highlighting the public health significance of contaminating soil with faeces. Of the 1,120 soil and 800 stool sample examined using the ZnSO4 centrifugal floatation technique and microscopy, 12.0% and 52.0% were positive, respectively. Eggs of Ascaris sp (4.6%), Trichuris sp (4.0%) hookworm (2.8%,) Toxocara sp (0.4%), and Strongyloides sp...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the status, trends and challenges of library and information education and training in Eastern and Southern Africa. It notes that library and information education and training in Africa is undergoing rapid change, with difficult challenges to be overcome. For example, during the past 20 years, the number of library schools has grown in some regions and declined in some, such as South Africa. Common LIS factors include amalgamation,...

Onchocerciasis remain one of the scourges that causes blindness and dermal problems in tropical Africa, Nigeria is said to harbor 7million of the 40 million cases found world wide (1). One of the strategies adopted in addressing low community participation in Community Directed Treatment with Ivermentin CDI aimed at reducing this scourge in some communities of Cross River State Nigeria, is the intensification of community mobilization and sensitisation using Information, Educational and...

A study on the prevalence of gastro-intestinal tract parasites was conduced in three primary schools in Umudike, Ikwuano local government area, Abia State. 300 stool samples from pupils' ages 5-16 years were examined. The following parasites were isolated, namely Hookworms (53.3%), Ascaris lumbricoides (36.7%), Trichuris trichiura (2.3%) Entamoeba histolytica (11.7%), Entamoeba coli (0.3%) and Giardia lamblia (1.7%). Multiple parasitism were also encountered. The age groups 5-7, 8-10 and...

A study of the aquatic oligochaetes of an organically polluted segment of an urban stream in Southern Nigeria was carried out to assess the ecological impact of abattoir effluent. Three stations 1, 2 and 3 were selected from upstream of the site receiving abattoir effluent, the impacted site and its down stream, respectively. Among the water quality variables, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, BODs, Nitrate-nitrogen, Phosphate-phosphorus and water hardness were significantly different (p <...

Mauritius is a multilingual postcolonial island of the Indian Ocean. Although the French-lexified creole, Mauritian Creole/Kreol,⋑1 is the native language of 70% of the Mauritian population, it is excluded from the education system. Kreol lacks prestige because it is seen as broken French and associated with the local Creoles, a socioeconomically deprived ethnic group. Over the last decade, there has been increasing pressure on the government from linguists and pedagogues to include this...

Congenital eye disorders, though rare are important causes of childhood blindness. It can occur in isolation or in combination, or as part of a syndrome. This retrospective study was aimed at documenting the causes of congenital eye diseases at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, Nigeria.A review of the case notes of patients presenting at the eye clinic with congenital eye diseases between January 1994 and December 2004 was carried out.The most common congenital...

An audit of the utilization of the ophthalmic theatre time of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu was conducted in order to identify the main factors hindering maximum utilization of the theatre, with a view to improving efficiency and effectiveness of the operating theatre team.Data was collected prospectively over a period of 3 months (16th May - 22nd August 2005). A total of 28 elective operation lists consisting of 47 eye surgeries was surveyed. Theatre time utilization...

The choice of pathology as a profession by would be resident doctors, will, to a large extent depend on the amount of knowledge acquired on the subject at the undergraduate level.A questionnaire was self administered to final year medical students of University of Jos shortly after the completion of the final written paper in medicine in September 2005; meant to elicit their views on choosing patology as a profession after graduation.Eighty-five students enrolled comprising 65 (76.5%) males...

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is still a problem not infrequently encountered in the course of clinical practice. This study was designed to ascertain its prevalence among both the in and out-patients and the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of the isolates.A retrospective analysis of data from all the urine samples processed at Jos university teaching hospital microbiology laboratory was undertaken for a period of 36 months (January 2000-December 2002). Samples had been collected, stored...