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In this article, an overview of economical, educational, and health care conditions in Ghana are discussed. The foundation for an educational course in regional anesthesia is laid, steps are taken for development and implementation is identified. Benefits of the experience to the people of Ghana are identified and personal rewards highlighted.

The United Nations' Special Initiative for Africa (UNSIA) focuses on selected low- enrollment African countries in an effort to help them find pragmatic, sustainable solutions to the problems that have depressed primary school enrollments for so long. As part of this process, a four-country study was conducted between November 1998 and May 1999 in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Mauritania. The study specially focused on identifying and understanding the practices likely to promote female...

The prevalence of intestinal parasites and their relations to anaemia and nutritional status among school children aged 6-11 years in Gaza was studied. The target area is overcrowded with improper sewage disposal system and low socioeconomic levels. Anaemia was assessed by haemoglobin level (Hb) and nutritional status by anthropometric measurements including weight for age (WA), weight for height (WH) and height for age (HA). Intestinal parasites were found to be prevalent in Gaza. The...

The present study explored reported awareness of AIDS among third-year majors in education. The 71 men and 93 women had a mean age of 24.7 yr. (SD = 4.7 yr.). Those who were aware outnumbered those who were not.

To determine the prevalence of vitamin A in pre-school children in Kenya.Cross-sectional survey.Fourteen districts randomly selected from the eight provinces in Kenya.Six thousand four hundred and twenty five pre-school children (3298 boys and 3127 girls) aged 6-72 months in 27 clusters randomly selected from fourteen districts.Serum retinol levels and xerophthalmia were determined using High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and ophthalmological assessment respectively.The mean serum...

We tested 758 fecal Escherichia coli isolates, recovered from Nigerian students in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, and 1998, for susceptibility to seven antimicrobial drugs. The prevalences of strains resistant to tetracycline, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and streptomycin were 9% to 35% in 1986 and 56% to 100% in 1998. These findings demonstrate that resistance gene reservoirs are increasing in healthy persons.

This paper examines the nature of students’ conflicts in tertiary institutions in Nigeria and observes that the prevalence of such conflicts has been due to their mismanagement which is traceable to a conventional, but faulty and often monolithic diagnostic of the problem. The paper, therefore, takes a sociological approach to the analysis of the crisis. The major argument is that overt students’ conflicts are rather social manifestations of more deep rooted conflicts underscored by...

Abstract The Quaternary Chyulu Hills Volcanic Province is located more than 100 km east of the Kenya Rift Valley. It consists of a large number of free-standing and coalesced volcanoes and cinder cones and numerous lava flows ranging in composition from nepheline-normative nephelinites, basanites, alkali basalts and hawaiites to orthopyroxene-normative subalkali basalts. In this paper, the authors briefly outline the geological setting of the Chyulu Hills Volcanic Province, present a...

Abstract A group of carbonate-rich tuffs are described from the Murumuli crater, Katwe-Kikorongo volcanic field, SW Uganda which contain abundant carbonatite pelletal lapilli, together with melilitite lapilli and a range of xenocrysts and lithic fragments including clinopyroxenites considered to be of mantle origin. The carbonatite lapilli consist essentially of Sr-bearing calcite and Mg-calcite which form quench-textured laths. The lapilli contain microphenocrysts of Ti-magnetite,...

Empirical research has not examined the explicit relationship between cultural identity and health-promoting behavior. This study proposed three models of relationships between African self-consciousness (ASC), health consciousness (HC), and health-promoting behaviors (HPB) in a sample of African American college students. One model suggested that the relationship between ASC and HPB would be mediated by HC, whereas a second model hypothesized a moderating effect of HC. A third model denoted...

Systematized HIV/AIDS education for student nurses at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria: impact on knowledge, attitudes and compliance with universal precautions This paper reports the findings of a study which examines changes in a group of Bachelor of Science (BSc) nursing students’ perceptions, knowledge of and attitudes towards human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), accruing from attempts at a systematized education for the cohort. Based upon a...

SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating was undertaken on two samples of Dokhan Volcanics from the type area at Gebel Dokhan, north Eastern Desert, Egypt. A quartz andesite from the Imperial Porphyry unit has a weighted 206Pb/238U age of 593 ± 13 Ma (2σ). A sample of grey andesite, from ~450 m lower in the succession, has a weighted 206Pb/238U age of 602 ± 9 Ma (2σ). These ages are interpreted to record the time of eruption of the Dokhan Volcanics. Two concordant zircon cores in the upper sample define a...

To determine the nutritional status of pre-school children of the farmers and to examine factors associated with malnutrition.A cross-sectional study with descriptive and analytical components.Dera Woreda, north west Ethiopia.Three hundred seventy six children below five years of age.Land size, economic income.The nutritional status of the pre-school children was assessed by using the indicators weight for age (W/A), weight for height (W/H), and height for age (HA) and 2SD as a cut-off point...

In Nigeria, there has been in recent times, a growing need to effectively manage the pollution stemming from biomedical waste disposal by hospital incinerators. This is not unconnected with the enormous quantities of the biomedical wastes being churned out haphazardly to the environment coupled with the increasing awareness of the Nigerian populace to health-care delivery. The case-study is the incinerator being currently used in Nigeria's oldest Teaching Hospital - University College...

Health experts describe lifestyle as one of the most important factors influencing health. Adolescents and young adults have been identified as a population that engages in high-risk behaviors. The purposes of this study were to determine the health behaviors of undergraduate African American nursing students and compare the results to findings from studies of other college students. A convenience sample of 214 undergraduate African American nursing students participated in the study. The...