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Aim:The purpose of the study was to investigate oral health knowledge, perceptions and behaviour amongst nursing students in a Nigerian tertiary hospital.Materials and methods: The study was conducted at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital on 244 respondents aged 17 to 40 years, using self administered structured questionnaire.Result: Respondents showed high level of oral health knowledge.Most of them (68.3%), had never visited a dentist with females accounting for 144 (67.7%) (P >...

This article discusses the ethnic conflict in Rwanda between the Hutu and the Tutsi, examines its origins and speculates future developments. Rwanda has witnessed small-scale genocides since 1959 that culminated in the 1994 grand genocide where one million people were killed. The article dwells on the role of Human Rights education to fight genocide as provided for in Art. 13(1) of the ICESCR (1966). The author argues that the externally-imposed colonial education that misrepresented the...

This article is devoted to a discussion of women academics (more specifically instructional/research staff) in higher education in South Africa. It disaggregates the sex-specific data by sector, race, age, rank, qualification and scientific field. The proportion of female instructional/research staff substantially increased from 30 per cent in 1992 to about 40 per cent in 2001, with a small but continued increase in their share of senior positions. Women, however, are still under-represented...

The biopsychosocial model is a philosophy of clinical care and a practical clinical guide. Philosophically, it is a way of understanding how suffering, disease, and illness are affected by multiple levels of organization, from the social to the subatomic particle using the General System Theory. The aim of this paper was to bring to the attention of doctors the thinking that underpins the unique training of family physicians as specialist in West Africa. A review of relevant literature was...

Abstract Aims To estimate the 12‐month prevalence of DSM‐IV‐specific anxiety disorders among Nigerian secondary school adolescents aged 13–18 years. Method A representative sample of adolescents ( n =1090) from senior secondary schools in a semi‐urban town in Nigeria was assessed for the 12‐month prevalence of DSM‐IV‐specific anxiety. Results The 12‐month prevalence for all anxiety disorders was 15.0% (females=19.6%; males=11.4%). There were significant gender differences in the prevalence...

Abstract Equatorial East Africa suffered severe drought during its 2005 “short rains,” centered on October–November. The circulation mechanisms of such precipitation anomalies are examined, using long-term upper-air and surface datasets, and based on diagnostic findings from earlier empirical investigations. The steep eastward pressure gradient is conducive to fast westerlies over the central-equatorial Indian Ocean, surface manifestation of a powerful zonal circulation cell with subsidence...

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) caused by Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been a major public Health issue affecting millions of individuals around the World. No continent is spared. HIV/AIDS is the most deadly of all the sexually transmitted infections. HIV/AIDS epidemic could has incalculable implications for Agriculture, Business and Socio-Economic development of a country. This intervention study was carried out between June and October 2006 with the aim of assessing...

International Journal of Gynecology & ObstetricsVolume 99, Issue S1 p. S69-S70 Issues in clinical management Obstetric fistula admissions at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana K.A. Danso, Corresponding Author K.A. Danso [email protected] Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology/Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, GhanaCorresponding author. Department of Obstetrics and...

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 This paper examines the use of Internet cafés in two developing countries; Indonesia and Tanzania. The research is based on surveys of about 500 respondents in the two countries, supported by in-depth interviews. The findings show that Internet cafés are used for competence development today, and that they have the potential to be suitable arenas for human resource development for a wide range of users. For the users, access speed and price are important obstacles to increased...

While there are many conservation programs in east Africa, relatively little is invested in environmental education or capacity building within the community. With this in mind, the National Forest Authority of Uganda, the Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports, Disney's Animal Kingdom™, and the Jane Goodall Institute—Uganda entered into a partnership to produce an environmental education curriculum for the Kalinzu Forest Reserve. This program was designed with outside...

Teaching practice is a very important component of any teacher-training programme. A student teacher is given the opportunity to try the art of teaching and face the real world of work before joining the profession. This study makes a closer scrutiny of mentorship, an approach currently in use by most teacher training colleges in Zimbabwe, where student teachers on teaching practice are attached to qualified and experienced teachers who work as their mentors. The study sought to : (a) find...

It is slightly over a decade since the historic event struck South Africa in ways that are both profound and as yet inconclusive. Democracy's birth in 1994 was prickly and delicate. The profundity of the event lies entombed in the intricacies of the nature of the birth and the attendant midwives eyeing each other's moves as that was the only way, it seemed, to assure the safe delivery of a baby that would safeguard the self interest of those witnessing this epochal spectacle: the delivery of...

This article explores the policy implications of internationalisation of higher education in post-apartheid South Africa. It uses several of the country's policy documents and analyses what they infer about the process of internationalisation and its role in the transformation of South African higher education and society. The particular policy documents used as points of analysis have been chosen because they are crucial policy documents in South Africa that continue to guide higher...

The suitability of present and future climates for 30 Rhipicephalus species in Africa are predicted using a simple climate envelope model as well as a Division of Atmospheric Research Limited-Area Model (DARLAM). DARLAM's predictions are compared with the mean outcome from two global circulation models. East Africa and South Africa are considered the most vulnerable regions on the continent to climate-induced changes in tick distributions and tick-borne diseases. More than 50% of the species...