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Maternal mortality remains high in developing countries and data to monitor indicators of progress in maternal care is needed. We examined the status of maternal care before and after health care worker (HCW) training in WHO recommended Focused Antenatal Care.An initial cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2002 in Asembo and Gem in western Kenya among a representative sample of women with a recent birth. HCW training was performed in 2003 in Asembo, and a repeat survey was conducted in...

Abstract In this article, we report on the results of a project devoted to improving literacy in South Africa's rural schools; specifically we report the results of an intervention study that centered on improving mother-tongue literacy instruction offered to learners in Grades 1 and 2 in South African schools. Our findings demonstrate that there are positive and strong effects for the home-language initiative that was tested in this study. Our data suggest that there is a high level of...

Most models predict that climate change will affect the southern African region both through temperature rises and increased frequency and severity of drought. Conservation agriculture (CA) based on minimal soil disturbance, crop residue retention, and crop rotations offers potential solutions to mitigate the effects of seasonal drought. In Zimbabwe and Zambia, we investigated the effects of different maize-based CA systems on water relations and crop productivity from 2005–2009 and compared...

Most models predict that climate change will affect the southern African region both through temperature rises and increased frequency and severity of drought. Conservation agriculture (CA) based on minimal soil disturbance, crop residue retention, and crop rotations offers potential solutions to mitigate the effects of seasonal drought. In Zimbabwe and Zambia, we investigated the effects of different maize-based CA systems on water relations and crop productivity from 2005–2009 and compared...

Most models predict that climate change will affect the southern African region both through temperature rises and increased frequency and severity of drought. Conservation agriculture (CA) based on minimal soil disturbance, crop residue retention, and crop rotations offers potential solutions to mitigate the effects of seasonal drought. In Zimbabwe and Zambia, we investigated the effects of different maize-based CA systems on water relations and crop productivity from 2005–2009 and compared...

Most models predict that climate change will affect the southern African region both through temperature rises and increased frequency and severity of drought. Conservation agriculture (CA) based on minimal soil disturbance, crop residue retention, and crop rotations offers potential solutions to mitigate the effects of seasonal drought. In Zimbabwe and Zambia, we investigated the effects of different maize-based CA systems on water relations and crop productivity from 2005–2009 and compared...

Most models predict that climate change will affect the southern African region both through temperature rises and increased frequency and severity of drought. Conservation agriculture (CA) based on minimal soil disturbance, crop residue retention, and crop rotations offers potential solutions to mitigate the effects of seasonal drought. In Zimbabwe and Zambia, we investigated the effects of different maize-based CA systems on water relations and crop productivity from 2005–2009 and compared...

Most models predict that climate change will affect the southern African region both through temperature rises and increased frequency and severity of drought. Conservation agriculture (CA) based on minimal soil disturbance, crop residue retention, and crop rotations offers potential solutions to mitigate the effects of seasonal drought. In Zimbabwe and Zambia, we investigated the effects of different maize-based CA systems on water relations and crop productivity from 2005–2009 and compared...

If a climate signal could be detected at state or regional level, it would be useful to policy planners, agricultural authority and farmers to prepare for climate change.This study, therefore, employed a statistical model to investigate the relationship between the yield of cowpea and temperature (in centigrade) and precipitation (in millimeters) for the period 1961 -2006 at state levels in Nigeria.The analyses were based on all the twenty major cowpea producing states for the main period...

The prevalence and frequency of symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) was assessed in female undergraduate students of the University of Calabar.A survey of a consecutive sample of 200 nulliparous subjects aged between 16 and 31 years revealed that 85.5% of them regularly experienced symptoms suggestive of PMS.The commonest symptoms were lower abdominal pain, pimples/puffy face, tender/painfully engorged breast and depression/tension representing 86%, 67% 63%, and 55% respectively.The...

In September 2007, the Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland (GoS) approved a broad national development reform agenda in the form of a poverty reduction strategy and action plan (PRSAP). The plan is intended to update and operationalize the National Development Strategy (NDS) of 1999, as well as to begin to actualize Vision 2022; which was also launched in 1999.The ultimate outcome of these instruments is 'improved quality of life for all Swazis.' Their key goal is 'growth acceleration...

Our experience with cadaver collection at the Department of Anatomy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria between 9th of February 1998 and 11th of October 2001 is presented. A total of twenty-eight bodies were collected from the State Hospital, Ring Road during this period viz: twenty-six were males (92.9%) and two females (7.1%). Twenty-two (78.6%) were suspected bandits who died during gun duel with law enforcement agents while six (21.4%) were bodies that were accident victims and unclaimed...

BJU InternationalVolume 105, Issue 10 p. 1353-1355 BRITISH TRAINING AND UROLOGICAL PRACTICE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA E. Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa, Corresponding Author E. Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa Surgery and Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, NigeriaE. Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa, College of Medicine, Surgery, University of Ibadan, University College Hospital Ibadan, Ibadan PO Box 7193, Nigeria.e-mail: okeoffa@yahoo.comSearch for more papers by this authorS. Adekola Adebayo, S....

In 1987, the Government of Ghana embarked on a process to decentralise education management to districts throughout the country as part of a programme of wider social and democratic governance reforms. A vital element of this reform was the prescription of active community participation in the affairs of schools within their localities. The establishment of school management committees (SMCs) was to create a new school governance landscape based on community participation, as well as...