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Background: Globally, millions are infected with HIV/AIDS, and more than half of them are adolescents aged between 12-25 years. Inadequate knowledge, negative attitudes, and risky practices are major barriers to HIV/AIDS prevention. This study seeks to establish the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding HIV/AIDS among high school learners in South Africa. Methods: Data were collected from a randomly selected sample of 422 learners from two high schools using pre-tested...

Zorunlu nedenlerle kendi ülkesinden başka ülkelere göç edenlerin sayısı her geçen yıl giderek artmaktadır. Göç edenler sığınmacı statüsüyle yeni ülkede temel ihtiyaçlarını karşılama sorunları yaşarken ev sahibi toplumla da uyum sağlamaya çalışmaktadır. Sığınmacıların uyum sağlamalarında eğitim ihtiyaçlarının karşılanması ve toplumun sığınmacılara ön yargıyla yaklaşmamasının önemi çok büyüktür. Bu çalışmada Türkiye’ye gelmiş olan Suriyeli sığınmacıların eğitimiyle ilgili olarak Türk basınında...

Abstract Background Competency-based education (CBE) equips health professionals with the requisite competencies for health systems performance. This study aimed to develop and validate a CBE model suitable for teaching Human Nutrition/Human Nutrition and Dietetics (HN/HND) at the undergraduate level in Uganda. Methods The study was undertaken in two main phases, (1) competency needs assessment and (2) model development and content validation. The later had three iterative stages: a needs...

Research indicates that university students present higher levels of psychological distress compared with non-student age-matched youth. These levels are higher among healthcare students, and even higher during the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, cost-effective large-scale interventions are needed in order to prevent further development of psychological distress during this period, and more generally. The aim of the current study was to assess the effectiveness of an 8-week Internet-based...

The Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has necessitated the long closure of academic institutions in most countries including Malawi. By the first week of April 2020, 188 countries had closed down their schools, affecting over 1.5 billion young people1. As a way of curbing the spread of the pandemic, the Malawian president ordered an immediate closure of schools on 23rd March, 2020, affecting 5.3 million school-going children2. Schools remained closed up to August, 2020. This may have...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, children have been put at greater risk of school drop-out, as well as food insecurity and emotional health deterioration. This paper considers these issues as they have occurred in South Africa. We use all waves of the National Income Dynamics Study–Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey to estimate non-return to school, access to school meals, and household well-being. The number of learners not attending school in 2021 is estimated to be close to...

Agriculture is the main source of livelihood in Tanzania. Agricultural development in Tanzania, however, has been constrained by climatic factors including climate variability and non-climatic challenges such as poverty, small size of land holdings, limited access to non-farm activities, poor access to and low use of improved seeds and fertilizers, limited access to financing for uptake of technology, global agricultural policies and diseases such as HIV/AIDS. In the era of climate change...

Background: Menstruation is a normal physiological process in women of reproductive age and abnormalities can be associated with it. This study is conducted to determine menstrual characteristics and the prevalence of menstrual disorders among secondary school girls of rural Gambia and its effects on the life-style of these girls particularly absenteeism at school. Method: A prospective cross-sectional survey was carried out among girls of age 13- 24 years from three different school in Soma...

Poverty is one of the factors contributing to lower achievements and completion rates among black students in South African higher education institutions (HEIs). The approach in addressing student poverty in HEIs is predominantly financial through funding disadvantaged groups. While the multifacetedness of poverty is well documented, the nature of multidimensional poverty among students is little known. This study aims to provide an understanding of the nature of student poverty. The study...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to deconstruct the term “tribalism” for its application to foster context and industry-based corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication system in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach This research used both the qualitative and quantitative research methods of data collection; it is an in-depth survey with multiple data collection settings. Findings (1) There is a pattern of CSR communication across the three industries sampled. (2) CSR across...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı’na bağlı olan okullarda Suriyeli öğrenciler için açılan uyum sınıflarına ilişkin Türkçe öğreticileri ve okul yöneticilerinin görüşlerini incelemektir. Araştırma, 2019-2020 eğitim-öğretim yılında Gaziantep’te 10 farklı okulda görev yapan 14 Türkçe öğreticisi ve 13 okul yöneticisi ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırma, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden olgubilim deseni ile yürütülmüştür. Verilerin analizinde içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılmıştır....

With the emergence of COVID-19 this brought about changes in teaching and learning worldwide. In most parts of the world including South Africa students were sent home in March 2020 and learning was moved to an online virtual learning environment. In the process, the government implemented various stringent measures to flatten the curve of new infections, reduce death and strengthen the ability of the public health system to deal with the pandemic. This column draws from the capabilities...

The relevant legislation ensures confidentiality and has paved the way for data handling and sharing. However, the industry remains uncertain regarding big data handling and sharing practices for improved healthcare delivery and medical research.A semi-qualitative cross-sectional study was used which entailed analysing miners' personal health records from 2014 to 2018. Data were accessed from the audiometry medical surveillance database (n = 480), the hearing screening database (n = 24,321),...

Do policy makers learn from their failures? The rational and normal expectation would be that they do, but experience shows otherwise. Notwithstanding the valuable and multiply expected learning opportunities presented by such failures, especially in Africa, policy errors continue unabated in both the developed and developing worlds. Even the high-profile nature of the failures across the continent seems insufficient to convince African policy makers of their significance. Focusing on the...

The strategic place of English language in national development and mutual co-existence of Nigerians is not debatable. English has become a foreign national language to which the destiny of Nigeria is inextricably tied. The teaching of English at all levels of education in Nigeria is bedeviled with certain debilitating challenges. This paper examines some of the challenges of teaching and learning English in public secondary schools in Nigeria. It identifies such problems as poor quality of...