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When corporal punishment and caning as a way of disciplining students was banned in Kenya in year 2000, the Ministry of Education replaced it with Guidance and Counseling services. However, many schools lacked professional counselors to cater for the huge increase in indiscipline cases. Some schools opted to use suspensions for minor and major indiscipline. This decision did not consider the effect of student's suspension on academic work and psychosocial wellbeing of the students. This...
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BackgroundData on the prevalence of chronic conditions, their risk factors, and their associations with disability in older people living with and without HIV are scarce in sub-Saharan Africa.ObjectivesIn older people living with and without HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: 1) to describe the prevalence of chronic conditions and their risk factors and 2) to draw attention to associations between chronic conditions and disability.MethodsCross-sectional individual-level survey data from people aged...
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This paper examines the role of health and population growth on inclusive growth in selected 14 African countries from 1995 to 2012. Using the Fixed effect method, the findings indicate that finances from the health sector have greater impact towards the inclusiveness of growth in Africa. It indicated that adequate financing of the health sector is fundamental to improve pro-poor growth in Africa. The population growth of African countries was found to deteriorate the achievement of...
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Innovations are considered a major driving force in industrial development, although the nature and types of innovation carried out are very different in different contexts of development. Innovations that are new to the local market but not necessarily so to the global market may well have significant economic value in developing countries whereas innovations that are new to the global market may hold greater attraction to multinationals from developed countries. Nonetheless,...
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The headache disorders, namely, migraine and tension type headache and the associated analgesic consumption is badly underestimated and thus makes a major current public health problem. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of migraine and tension type headaches and the associated management options used among undergraduate students of College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia. Institution based cross sectional study was conducted...
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This paper is based on an ethnographic study conducted between 2012 and 2014 with a group of 64 boys and girls aged 6–10, all attending the same township primary school in South Africa. The paper explores how the young children construct gender ‘boundaries’ and ‘police’ gender ‘transgressions’ on the school playground during break-time. The findings illustrate the ways in which these young boys and girls learn to ‘do’ gender through practices of inclusion, exclusion and ‘policing’ during...
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Though studies show that alcohol use and sexual activity increase during emerging adulthood, few studies examine within-ethnic group differences, particularly among African American college students. This investigation utilized a latent class analytic methodology to identify risk behavior profiles of alcohol use (frequency and amount of alcohol consumed), sexual activity (number of intimate partners), and co-occurring risk behaviors (drinking before sexual intercourse) among 228 African...
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In order to accurately interpret neonatal thyroid function tests (TFTs), it is necessary to have population specific reference intervals (RIs) as there is significant variation across different populations possibly due to genetic, environmental or analytical issues. Despite the importance of RIs, globally there are very few publications on RIs for neonatal TFTs primarily due to ethical and technical issues surrounding recruitment of neonates for a prospective study. To the best of our...
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The debate on using local knowledges to develop non-Western societies is not new. In the case of social work, the concept of localization is linked to the processes of developing culturally appropriate education and practice models to meet the unique needs of diverse cultures in local contexts. The search for appropriateness emerged as social work expanded to non-Western countries, and scholars began to question the relevance of Western social work in developing countries. Criticisms of...
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Background: There is heightened interest in strengthening the linkages between agriculture and nutrition so that agriculture education systems become more nutrition-sensitive.This study was conducted to document the process of integrating nutrition into the training curricula of the Matourkou Agriculture Training Centre (CAP/Matourkou) in Burkina Faso.It also aimed to identify the challenges as well as the opportunities related to this mainstreaming process.Methods: Data were collected...
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This commentary, an input at a Globalization School debate in Cape Town, engages current labor and Left debates on building alternatives, drawing on the experiences of the radical wing of the anti‐apartheid movement in South Africa, and on anarchism and syndicalism. It argues for a strategy of bottom‐up mobilization based on debate and pluralism, and building structures of counter‐power and a revolutionary counter‐culture that can prefigure and create a new social order. The aim is to foster...
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Acknowledgment Without you, I would not be the person I am … Thank you for believing in me, and pushing me forward Fathia Khalil, my mother Alaa El-Zouhairy, my father My number one supporter, and the person who always has big dreams for the both of us… Ahmed Boghdady, my husband My very precious professors who make dreams come true… Helen Rizzo, Reem Saad, Nazek Nosseir, Heba Kotb, Munira Khayyat and Hala Abdel-Hak Life would not have been the same without each and every...