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Medical distrust is a potent barrier to participation in HIV care and medication use among African American/Black and Latino (AABL) persons living with HIV (PLWH). However, little is known about sociodemographic and risk factors associated with distrust. We recruited adult AABL PLWH from low socio-economic status backgrounds with insufficient engagement in HIV care ( N = 512). Participants completed structured assessments on three types of distrust (of health care providers, health care...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common chronic progressive and disabling neurological disease of the CNS. It has many impacts on social, family and professional life. These repercussions have often been discussed in terms of quality of life. The purpose of this study is to assess quality of life, fatigue, and depression in MS patients.

Cameroon currently hosts around half a million refugees from conflict affected neighbouring countries such as Nigeria and the Central African Republic (CAR). This article focuses on the rights to basic education in terms of access and enrolment for CAR refugee school-aged children who reside in the East Region of Cameroon. Based on a qualitative research approach and a combination of secondary and primary data, powered by a theoretical framework of analysis that is informed by the Rational...

Environments characterized by extreme poverty and violence, in which children are victims of abuse and neglect, occur around the globe. Toxic stressors and a range of social determinants combine to yield high levels of child social-emotional problems. Evidence-based interventions (EBIs) targeted at improving mental health in these populations that can be delivered in schools, might be transportable globally to populations with similar experience. Our study tests the transportability of the...

Epilepsy is one of the commonest neurological disorders. It has a well-known recognized association with intellectual disabilities. To assess the relation between intellectual disability and epilepsy control.

Job Satisfaction and Psychological Distress among Teachers in Selected Schools in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria in 2021: A Cross-Sectional Study

COVID-19 pandemic has left the largest disorder in education systems in history; these affected more than3.6 a billion learners in more than 200 countries. Suspending of physical learning of colleges, institutions and universities have impacted more than 95% of the world’s learner’s population. This has brought changes in all aspects of our usual education systems. Social distancing, mask-up and restrictive movement policies were put in place by several governments that have considerably...

Background: Instructional supervision is an aspect of school administration that should not be taken for granted in schools. This is because when teachers are supervised in their teaching responsibilities, they tend to perform better than when left unsupervised.  The supervisors consider teachers’ level of knowledge, competence and experience which help to attest to their level of performance in their responsibilities in the school system. Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the...

The fast and widespread environmental changes that have intensified in the last decades are bringing disproportionate impacts to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Changes that affect water resources are particularly relevant for subsistence-based peoples, many of whom already suffer from constraints regarding reliable access to safe water. Particularly in areas where water is scarce, climate change is expected to amplify existing stresses in water availability, which are also...

This study investigates teacher educators’ perceptions of and challenges affecting the use of critical pedagogy in higher teacher education in Tanzania. The study employed a qualitative case study design and collected in-depth data through semi-structured interviews and direct classroom observations. The findings showed that critical pedagogy is a significant approach for developing students’ abilities to do critical reflection. However, critical pedagogy demands building a friendly...

This study used the social exchange theory and sexuality to investigate the underlying causes of sexual harassment in Institutions of Higher Learning in Uganda, with responses from Kyambogo University (KyU). Data were collected from internal and external stakeholder consultative meetings and workshops and the literature review. External participants were purposively selected from representatives of the Ministry of Education and Sports, public universities and non-governmental organizations,...

Patients with MCI have a memory complaint with preserved autonomy. Nevertheless, this memory impairment remains inferior in comparison with the memory of a healthy subject of the same age. Several evolutionary nosological frameworks are possible: from normal cognitive ageing, through the so-called stable MCI, to dementia (in unstable MCI). The aim is to give the clinical and evolutionary characteristics of a sample of an Algerian population of 40 patients with an MCI phenotype and followed for a minimum of 5 years.

About 10 millions epileptic patients live in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the treatment gap is more than 70%. HIV, highly prevalent in SSA is a risk factor for epilepsy and WHO indicated to unify epilepsy and HIV/AIDS treatment at HIV centres. The dramatic lack of neurologists in SSA imposes that many epileptic patients are seen by non-medical health-care providers (NMHCP), hence task-shifting is needed. To show the need of education in epilepsy and the short-term effects of local teaching courses to NMHCP in SSA-Malawi.

Many geological contexts lack suitable material for commonly applied absolute dating methods. Even if some regions contain potentially datable materials, they may be inappropriate for dating by existing geochronological techniques. Paleoanthropological localities on the Homa Peninsula, southwestern Kenya, have yielded important paleoanthropological material. These localities are, however, poorly constrained in time, and few radioisotopic ages have been published, because sediments derived...

Contaminated mobile phones act as reservoirs for organisms causing hospital-acquired infections (HAI). Little is known about medical school students' awareness of infection prevention and control (IPC) regarding mobile phone use among medical students. We demonstrated the presence of organisms on mobile phones of final-year medical students at Makerere University College of Health Sciences and evaluated their awareness of IPC regarding mobile phone hygiene and use in a hospital setting.In...

Publicado em 2018 no Journal of Social Science Education (JSSE), volume 17, numero 4, o artigo “Language and citizenship education in postcolonial Mozambique” de autoria de Feliciano Chimbutane, coloca no centro do debate as questoes de politica da lingua, explorando a interface da lingua, educacao e cidadania em Mocambique, com referencia especial ao papel da educacao e das ideologias da lingua na formacao do cidadao ideal no contexto pos-colonial. Com o estudo apresentado, o autor expoe as...

The disregard of teachers' needs had an influence negatively on our educational system in Nigeria. This study was undertaken to explore the influence of career satisfaction on teachers' attrition and retention in public secondary schools of Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi state was also the objective. A survey design was adopted for the study; the study population constitutes 356 teachers in public secondary schools in Dass Local Government. A proportionate stratified sampling technique...

Saying that blood is life is a bold and somewhat biased statement. Nevertheless, it sets the tone for The Lancet Haematology Series on Haematological Care Priorities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The overall vision of the Series is to reflect on the advances made in haematology in sub-Saharan Africa with regard to health care, research, and how strengthening and developing physical infrastructures and human resources is an integral part of this process. Iron deficiency anaemia in sub-Saharan...

There is no doubt that turn-taking strategies are indispensible factors for developing the interactional competence of FL learners.The present study investigated the ability of some Egyptian EFL learners to differentiate between various types of turn-taking strategies in FL conversation.Eighty English-majoring Egyptian students took part in the current study.They were divided into two groups: a control group and an experimental group with forty participants each.A pretest was administered to...

Due to the multiplicity of variables that come into play to explain employee performance, recent research has questioned the role of prevalent leadership styles in teacher performance. Inspired by such narratives, the current study set out to examine the prevalence of different leadership styles among head teachers, and to relate the prevalent styles to teacher performance in selected private secondary schools in Buikwe District. Using a correlational cross-sectional survey design, the study...