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Prescribing, adherence, and adverse drug events to HAART in a large antiretroviral programme in Lagos was evaluated.A retrospective 5 year open cohort study.The AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria (APIN) clinic at LUTH is one of the United States Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEP-FAR) funded centers for HIV relief program in Nigeria Participants The case files of 390 patients on HAART and attending the APIN clinic were reviewed sequel to random selection.Demographics of the...

Computer technology and the Internet have a tremendous potential to increase the independence of people with disabilities. We investigated the extent to which people with disabilities access information communication technologies (ICT) (focusing on access to computers, internet and mobile phone) and how their ICT access compares with the ICT access of the rest of the Namibian population. More specifically, we investigated factors that affect people with disabilities ICT access in Namibia....

Recent research indicates that investments in infrastructure for safe water and sanitation provision do not significantly reduce the incidence of water-borne diseases in the developing world unless they are accompanied by education in water handling and hygiene practices. School-based hygiene education initiatives are popular, but there is little evidence that they are effective in teaching students about safe water-handling practices. This study compared the outcomes of two approaches to...

Abstract. Land degradation is an environmental problem which weakens agro-silvo-pastoral productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The most common manifestation of land degradation is the appearance of denuded land. We carried out an experiment to test the effect of three soil and water conservation techniques on survival and growth of Jatropha curcas seedlings transplanted onto two completely denuded lands in the Sahelian and Sudanian zones of Burkina Faso. We implemented an experimental design...

Understanding spatio-temporal resource preferences is paramount in the design of policies for sustainable development. Unfortunately, resource preferences are often unknown to policy-makers and have to be inferred from data. In this paper we consider the problem of inferring agents' preferences from observed movement trajectories, and formulate it as an Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) problem . With the goal of informing policy-making, we take a probabilistic approach and consider...

A study on investigating the issues of quality associated with cross-border higher education was carried out using the case study approach focusing on Zimbabwe. The methodology involved document analysis of the cases of regulation and accreditation of cross-border higher education providers and assessment of qualifications acquired from foreign higher education providers as well as interviews with staff from the national quality assurance body. The findings revealed that internationalisation...

The Bayelsa State Government is assiduously working to improve the learning conditions in its schools. This is being pursued through a free and compulsory education policy. But the Compulsory, Free, Universal Basic Education Act 2004 requires that schools must be health promoting so as to enhance the effectiveness of the teaching and learning processes. Using documentary analysis, face-to-face interaction with school health desk officers and the author's work among schools the paper examines...

A study was conducted to investigate factors that affect students' poor performance in physical science examinations at Malawi School Certificate of Education and Junior Certificate of Education levels in Community day secondary schools (CDSS) in Lilongwe Rural West Education District in Malawi.Students' performance was collected from schools' Malawi National Examination Board results.Focus group discussion and personal interviews with students, teachers and parents were conducted.Regression...

There is a serious concern about the spate of indiscipline among youths in recent times, especially those in secondary schools. This study sets out to assess how the leadership style of principals and teachers’ attitude to works influence discipline among secondary schools students in Akamkpa Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State, Nigeria. A stratified random sampling was used to select ten secondary schools in the LGA from where 200 respondents were sampled for the study. Data...

This study was designed to assess the public perception of climate change in Yenagoa. The sample survey method was adopted, which involved the administration of 360 questionnaires to randomly selected households. The results showed that 43.33% of respondents lack adequate knowledge of climate change. Further interview revealed that 55.3% of the respondents are unaware that carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the major greenhouse gas, contributing about 55% to global warming. It was revealed that...

The objective of this study was to explore subject area teachers" help of students to use the Target Language (TL) in classrooms.For the investigation, a mixed-method research approach was used under the umbrella of pragmatic paradigm of research design.Four Grade Nine History and Geography teachers were purposively selected for the study from two secondary schools in Nekemte town.The data were collected through interview and classroom observations.The data from the interview and the lesson...

An estimated 129 million people are infected with urogenital schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa. Current control recommendations endorse mass administration of praziquantel. Health education is an important component of effective schistosomiasis prevention and control, but there has been limited research on its effectiveness. This paper reviews the effectiveness of health education as an intervention in the prevention and control of urogenital schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa. The...

South African speech-language therapists (SLTs) currently do not reflect the country's linguistic and cultural diversity. The question arises as to who might be better equipped currently to provide services to multilingual populations: SLTs with more clinical experience in such contexts, or recently trained SLTs who are themselves linguistically and culturally diverse and whose training programmes deliberately focused on multilingualism and multiculturalism?To investigate whether length of...

Self-regulatory behavior is an important personal skill that strengthens in the course of transition from childhood to adulthood.While self-regulation promotes healthy and successful transitioning to adulthood, deficiency in self-regulation would expose the growing persons to a host of undesirable behaviors including impulsivity, violence, health risky behaviors etc.The aim of this study was to examine adolescents" self-regulatory behavior and how it was associated with parental involvement...

This study adopts a qualitative case-study method to examine the monitoring of teacher trainees in Ghana. Interviews with the trainee teachers and head teachers provide data on the process, the participants’ experiences and perceived benefits and challenges of the program. Recommendations for improvement are provided.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the incidence of public education subsidies in Ghana. Since the late 1990s, Ghana’s government has increasingly recognized human capital as key to alleviating poverty and income inequality, causing dramatic increases of government expenditures to the education sector. At the same time user fees have been introduced in higher education while basic education is being made progressively free. The question then is, whether these spending...

This dissertation is my original work and has not been presented for publication anywhere, or for any award in any university, college, or institution. No part of this work can be copied without the permission of the author and The Catholic University of Eastern Africa.

This paper presents the conclusions of a study on the impact of ICT on collaborative learning processes in Libyan Higher Education (LHE). The quantitative analysis of the answers to a questionnaire (completed by Libyan full-time lecturers at the universities of Tripoli, Garyounis, Gharian and Ezawia) shows the necessity to design and develop more classroom activities and interactive online applications, enabling the development of team-building skills required by employers. The influence of...

This thesis is my original work and has not been presented in any other college or university for the award of a degree. Information obtained from other sources has been appropriately acknowledged.