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AIDS causes disabling symptoms during its chronic and terminal phases. Families throughout the world, whether related to the patient by blood or affection, provide most of the personal care for him or her at home during these phases. Whether the family has access to advanced medical care or not, they can be taught simple comfort measures and nursing care skills that will improve the well-being of the patient. In Rwanda, a small country in east-central Africa, Red Cross volunteers were...
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Implications of the six National Education Goals for African Americans and other minority ,groups are discussed in a paper that summarizes the status of student competencies. The question posed is why the school reform movement thus far has had such a minimal impact on overall student achievement. The focus of the reform movement of the 1980s is reviewed, particularly the new basics, schoolbased management and parental involvement, and the curricular content issue. It is suggested that in...
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This paper presents results on the perceptions and attitudes of student teachers following the non-graduate Diploma in Education programme in 14 Primary and Secondary Teachers’ Colleges in Zimbabwe, towards Teaching Practice (TP) deployment and the implications of this deployment on their performance on final Teaching Practice assessment. A sample of 264 student teachers took part in the study which was conducted mainly by means of questionnaires and interviews on selected responses. The...
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Discusses what the most important aspects of training must be in a changing South Africa, where inequality in skills between Blacks and Whites is enormous and cuts in university education have reduced training departments for librarianship. Cost‐effective training is the priority, skill‐based training, relevance and job‐relatedness are some of the factors mentioned, which are critical to the success of any training programme. To be effective training must be carefully thought out and reflect...
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In this article I examine the impact of drought on farm households in Ethiopia and their response to crisis conditions. I ask whether every household in a community is equally affected by drought and what households do to mitigate the effects of drought and associated food insecurity. Information on production, income and food consumption is disaggregated by agroecological zone (highland and lowland), and by socioeconomic strata (relatively wealthy versus poor). Such detailed analysis...
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The debate about what constitutes good teaching in the industrialized countries of the world tends to be carried over into the developing world without examining ways in which social and cultural contexts of the originating countries differ from those of the receiv'ng ones. This study explores differences in perceptions of elementary education students in four countries (Finland, United States, Botswana, and Zimbabwe) and the extent to which effective classroom practices and teaching...
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A total of 2048 urine specimens were examined to assess the infection prevalence and epidemiological factors of T. vaginalis amongst students in a Nigerian higher institution. Five hundred and five students were infected (24.7%). This included 131 (15.6%) males and 374 (31.0%) females. More male than female students were found to be asymptomatic. Infection was significantly higher in females than males and in the second and third than the fourth and fifth decades of life (P < 0.05)....
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The focus on women and gender‐related issues is clearly one of the most important concerns of development administration today. Against this background, examines the problem of ensuring that gender issues are fully incorporated into management education in Africa. The discussion elaborates on why and in what direction and strategies African universities, defined as the centre of the intellectual concerns raised, should take on the matter. Existing theories do not provide clear guidelines....
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This paper illustrates how long-term economic instability has combined with drought to make women in a small village in western Sudan more vulnerable to impoverishment. Increased drought and government insolvency and indifference have forced poor farmers to rely on local resources and coping strategies. A case study from Bireka village demonstrates differences in strategies between women and men, and among women of different ethnicities and social status. This paper describes how...
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"The paradox of black pupil enrolment growth rates in South African schools: Reply." Development Southern Africa, 10(1), pp. 119–120