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The history of regional integration in Africa dates back to the pre-independence period when the colonial powers established regional schemes with the primary intent to preserve their interests on the continent. Only in the post-colonial period did regionalism come to be seen as a strategy for development and economic emancipation. Although the main idea behind the latter concept of regional co-operation was the establishment of continental institutions with adequate economic and political...

African Americans bear a disproportionate burden of osteoarthritis (OA), with higher prevalence rates, more severe pain, and more functional limitations. One key barrier to addressing these disparities has been limited engagement of African Americans in the development and evaluation of behavioral interventions for management of OA. Pain Coping Skills Training (CST) is a cognitive-behavioral intervention with shown efficacy to improve OA-related pain and other outcomes. Emerging data...

In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, private schools are often considered to offer better quality of education than government schools. Yet, there is a lack of evidence to date on their role in reducing inequalities: namely, the extent to which private schooling improves learning among the most disadvantaged children. Our paper uses household survey data from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to identify whether any observed impact of private schooling on core literacy and numeracy...

Nowadays, to achieve progress and to be on the way of being e developed, it is necessary to have an education based on knowledge, science and technology. However, the rapid emergence of new technologies brings about the idea of producing more with less workforce input. This, combined with a dramatic increase in the world population, we can't help being concerned about the emergence of a world with hundreds of millions of marginalized people. This is, once more, a challenge for statistics:...

Nowadays, to achieve progress and to be on the way of being e developed, it is necessary to have an education based on knowledge, science and technology. However, the rapid emergence of new technologies brings about the idea of producing more with less workforce input. This, combined with a dramatic increase in the world population, we can't help being concerned about the emergence of a world with hundreds of millions of marginalized people. This is, once more, a challenge for statistics:...

Nowadays, to achieve progress and to be on the way of being e developed, it is necessary to have an education based on knowledge, science and technology. However, the rapid emergence of new technologies brings about the idea of producing more with less workforce input. This, combined with a dramatic increase in the world population, we can't help being concerned about the emergence of a world with hundreds of millions of marginalized people. This is, once more, a challenge for statistics:...

BACKGROUND: Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) provides counseling, training, job placement, assistive technology and other support services to people with disabilities. VR counselors work to find employment consistent with their client’s strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests and informed choice. In order for VR counselors to be successful and effective in providing these services, it is important to know the client’s full history. A great number of VR...

People with disabilities are more vulnerable than others to poverty and exclusion from key services, such as health and education. Consequently, they particularly need social protection, yet may have difficulties accessing these programmes. This study aims to assess the need for, and inclusion in, social protection programmes among people with disabilities compared to those without, in three districts in Tanzania. Using a mixed methods approach, our study finds that although the need for...

Nurse education has moved from apprenticeship models to advanced competency-based curricular in higher education. The bachelor’s degree is already becoming the entry level into professional practice. Postgraduate programmes have been developed and there is growing autonomous regulation. Nursing in Cameroon has equally been going through its own evolution from the colonial era to present day Cameroon. However, the absence of empirical data makes it difficult to ascertain the nature of this...

Based on the 1,800 largest school districts in the United States over a decade, The Politics of African-American Education documents the status of African-American education and the major role that partisanship plays. The book brings together the most comprehensive database on minority education to date that centers around three arguments. First, partisanship permeates African-American education; it affects who is elected to the school board, the racial composition of school administrators...

Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs) regarding HIV/AIDS is one of the corner stones in the fight against the disease. Youths are most vulnerable to infection because they engage in risky practices due to a lack of adequate information. Thus, evaluating their KAPs will help in designing appropriate prevention strategies. This study was aimed at assessing the KAPs of senior secondary school students in Fako Division, Cameroon, on HIV/AIDS.This was a cross-sectional study carried out on...

To investigate the impact of disability and sexual dysfunction on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) among Nigerian stroke survivors (SSv) and to determine their association using sexual functioning (SF), Global Disability Measure and Function (GDMF), and demographic profiles.This study involved 121 consecutive SSv attending healthcare services in two tertiary health facilities in Nigeria. Demographic details were obtained through interview while HRQoL, SF, and Global Disability (GD)...

Environmental pollution is a widespread problem that influences both human health and agricultural productivity. One of the greatest problems facing the world today is environmental pollution, which is increasing every year and causing grave and irreparable damage to the earth and human health. It is these conditions that make environmental pollution a major concern to the developing countries of the world, especially Nigeria. Environmental pollution results from the activities of man...

Background: Sierra Leone is a low income country in West Africa that has a history of conflict. Sierra Leone have signed and ratified the Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Aim: To evaluate persons with disability that use prosthetic and orthotic assistive devices access to human rights. The addressed areas were; right to health, right to a standard of living adequate for health, right to vote, right to marry and found a family, right to education, right to work and. A...

This study was to assess the perception of teachers and students on adequacy of resources and facilities for the implementation of Learner Centred Pedagogy (LCP) in secondary schools in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania. Learner centred pedagogy was introduced in Tanzania curriculum since 2009. Learner centred pedagogy emphasizes the active role of learners in the process of learning to enhance creativity and critical thinking in acquiring knowledge, skills, and competences. This study was guided...

Welcome to Annals of Global Health,Annals of Global Health is a peer-reviewed, fully open access, online journal dedicated to publishing high quality articles dedicated to all aspects of global health. The journal's mission is to advance global health, promote research, and foster the prevention and treatment of disease worldwide. Its goals are to improve the health and well-being of all people, advance health equity, and promote wise stewardship of the earth's environment. The latest...

The study seeks to explore the cost of university education in Ghana.The rationale is premised on the fact that education is a human right which must be accorded to all humans regardless of their socio-economic status.Therefore, the present study at hand details the challenges of accessing higher education in Ghana and students' coping strategies.Qualitative research methodology with interviews, focus group discussion and auto-ethnography was employed as major instruments for data...