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Nigeria recognizes education as a fundamental human right and is a signatory to many international conventions aimed at bridging gender imbalance in education. Despite this, Nigeria still faces a lot of challenges in popularizing the concept and importance of girl- child education. There is still a national gender disparity in basic education enrolment, retention and completion against the girl – child. Available statistics revealed that out of 10 million children in Nigeria, about 60...

Since the war in Syria started in 2011, many children left their war-torn country, alone or together with their families, and fled to neighboring countries in the Middle East, to Turkey or to Europe. This article will compare how Syrian refugee children are included – or not - in school systems both in Europe (Sweden, Germany and Greece) and outside Europe (Turkey and Lebanon). These five countries represent very different ways of receiving children in their educational system. We will...

The “minibus taxi” industry in South Africa is a dominant transport provider for many scholars and students. The industry is characterized by a misogynistic culture and high risk of exposure to violence. What forms of violence are young Black women students in Johannesburg, South Africa, exposed to as commuters compelled to use “minibus taxis” to travel to university? What is the psychological impact of this exposure” What coping mechanisms are employed to manage in this environment? Ten...

Providing nursing students with quality clinical experience in intensive care units (ICUs) is a major concern for nursing educators in Egypt. Understanding nursing students' perception of their critical care experience is important in future planning of successful clinical placements in ICUs. The purpose of this study was to investigate undergraduate nursing students' perception of their clinical practice in ICUs. The study involved 306 nursing students who were registered in critical care...

Mali is a Sahelian country with a large climatic contrast from North to South. The current climatic and production evolutionary study is focused on the six major agro-climatic cereal production zones ranging from Kayes (400 mm) to Sikasso (>1000 mm) of rainfalls. Climatic data are rainfall records, daily maximum and minimum temperatures from 60 years of the six major synoptic weather observation stations. Data were analyzed on comparing average decades of the two normal periods of 30...

May 9, 2019April 9, 2019Free AccessSpine atrophy and sensory-motor disability in African Americans with Multiple Sclerosis (P5.2-051)Mohamed Mounir El Mendili, Maria Petracca, Amgad Droby, Giacomo Boffa, Swetha Paduri, Christopher Langston, Daniel Kurz, Ilena George, Claire Riley, Jonathan Howard, Sylvia Klineova, and Matilde IngleseAuthors Info & AffiliationsApril 9, 2019 issue92 (15_supplement) Letters to the Editor

Climate change has potential to affect human health in various ways. Extreme temperatures and cold both result in deaths, while the changing habitats favouring the breeding of vectors could result in the spread of diseases such as malaria, cholera and typhus. This article reviews climate change adaptation measures in the African public health sector. The evidence is drawn from National Communications of 21 countries as submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

Tanzania is among the countries with the most significant endemic of Malaria in Africa. Considering its impact on the society Malaria turned into a national security issue in the country. Several efforts had done to save the people, which also brought several actors, from national organizations to international ones, into the process of fighting Malaria. However, it is fascinating that as a developing country, during the rapid growth of methods and achievements to combat Malaria in the...

The 1.5 km wide circle-shaped Kadovar Island belongs to the Schouten Islands, a group of six volcanic Islands which form the western end of the Bismarck Volcanic Arc, located north of Papua New Guinea. Kadovar Island is the emergent summit of a stratovolcano. The last historic activity of Kadovar Volcano may have been in 1700. In the early 1900s and in 1976 fumarolic activity was reported. The first confirmed historical eruption at Kadovar began around mid-day local time on 05 January...

To provide exploratory and descriptive evidence on the prevalence estimate and some demographic correlates of suicidal behaviour among nursing and midwifery college students in Ghana.We used a cross-sectional survey design.An anonymous survey involving a randomly selected sample of 305 nursing and midwifery college students was conducted in March-May 2017. The Suicide Behavior Questionnaire-Revised was used to assess suicidal behaviour (i.e., ideation, planning, threat and attempt) and...

Objective:The aim of our study was to study the perception of dermatology by medical students in the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Lomé and their influencing factors.Method: This is an opinion poll conducted from June 1 to June 30, 2018, within medical students (Grades 5, 6, and 7) of the university's Faculty of Health Sciences.Results: We surveyed 176 medical students, 76 (38.8%) in grade 7 and 61 (31.1%) in grade 6.Among them, only 29.2% had done internships in...

Healthcare workers have good perception towards infection prevention, but there has been a poor practice towards it. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore barriers to practice of infection prevention and control practice in teaching hospitals in Amhara region. A phenomenological approach used to explore the lived experience of healthcare workers and management staffs towards infection prevention practice and control. The data was collected from ten in-depth interviews and 23 focus...

This investigation of physics teacher education in Ethiopia reveals a significant gap between the physics knowledge of pre-service teachers (PSTs) attained during training and that of the intended curriculum setting out expectations for their knowledge. Data were obtained by a test probing PSTs’ physics knowledge (attained curriculum); analysis of teacher education curriculum documents (intended); and video-recording, observation and analysis of lectures delivered to pre-service teachers at...

The study investigated the joint and relative contributions of four predicting variables in predicting academic performance among secondary school students.The research design was descriptive survey while the study made use of 200 SS2 students chosen purposively from five secondary schools in Ijebu-Ode Local Government area of Ogun State, Nigeria.The two different instruments used for data collection were the accommodator cognitive style questionnaire and converger cognitive style...

This study investigates the relevance of government quality in moderating the incidence of environmental degradation on inclusive human development in 44 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000–2012. Environmental degradation is measured with CO 2 emissions and the governance dynamics include: political stability, voice and accountability, government effectiveness, regulation quality, the rule of law and corruption-control. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method...