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Objectives: To audit our early experience of cataract surgery with intraocular lens implant, in the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (U.N.T.H.), Enugu. Methods: In a retrospective, non-comparative case-series study, the records of all patients who had cataract extraction with intraocular lens implant between January 2001 and October 2002 and were followed up for at least eight weeks were analyzed. Information on age, sex, type of cataract, co-existing ocular and systemic disease, pre-...

A novel investigation was undertaken to determine CD4 T-lymphocyte profile of newly diagnosed HIV-I patients in Kaduna centre. There were (80) Eighty patients and (20) twenty controls. The studied HIV-I patients were males (38) and females (42). Female more than males P

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) aims to ‘to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought in countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa, through effective action at all levels, supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements, in the framework of an integrated approach which is consistent with...

Title of Dissertation THE NATURE OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY IN TWO URBAN AFRICAN AMERICAN MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE CLASSROOMS Michelle Harris Bondima, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by Professor J. Randy McGinnis Department of Curriculum & Instruction This ethnographic in nature study explores how two middle school science teachers who have classes populated by urban African Americans teach their students and how their students perceive their teaching. Since urban...

Drought is a severe problem in the MENA region and most governments intervene to assist their farmers. Once institutionalized, drought assistance changes the way farmers manage resources, often with increased productivity and improved livelihoods. But when assistance is heavily subsidized, farmers may adopt excessively risky farming practices, with increased losses and a greater dependence on government in drought years. The feed subsidy and credit programs in the MENA region help farmers in...

Objective: The objective of this paper is to determine the prevalence and pattern of cases of refractive error reported at the eye clinic of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife (OAUTH). Methodology: All consecutive new patients seen at the eye clinic of the OAU Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, between October 1997 and September 1998 were examined. Those patients who complained of difficulty in seeing near or far objects, whose vision improved with the pinhole or those who...

Since the 1980's, there has been a prolific growth of medical schools and teaching hospitals in Nigeria. Along with this growth and progress, there have been incessant strikes by health care workers protesting poor remunerations and lack of necessary infrastructures and drugs. This has greatly affected the quality of our medical graduates and the health care services offered in hospitals across the country. Being a patient in a hospital has a potential for being more frightening, lonelier,...

Schistosoma mansoni and Plasmodium falciparum are common infections of school aged children in Kenya. They both cause enlargement of the spleen, but their relative contribution to the condition of splenomegaly remains unknown in areas where both infections are endemic. Here, we have investigated whether relatively high exposure to both infections has a clinically measurable effect on this condition.96 children aged 6-16 years living along a ten kilometre stretch and within 4 km south of a...

Two thousand, six hundred and fifty pregnant Nigerian women attending the antenatal booking clinic of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu between January 1996 and December 2000 were studied. Of these, 1,464 were anaemic (PCV = 33%), Hb = 11gm/dl) thus making the prevalence of anaemia in pregnancy in Sagamu, Nigeria 55.3%. Majority (88.9%) of these anaemic patients were mildly anaemic while 10.4% and 0.7% were moderately and severely anaemic respectively. Anaemia...

Children with disabilities may be particularly susceptible to skin disorders, therefore the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of skin disease among such children in Mansoura, Egypt. A total of 636 students with disabilities [76 blind, 446 deaf-mute and 114 mentally retarded] and 720 sex and age matched students [control] who did not have these disabilities were given a thorough dermatological examination. We found 89.5% of blind students, 99.3% of deaf students and 100% of...

Objective: To assess the prevalence of oral habits among 7-10 year-old children in Ibadan, Nigeria.Design: An epidemiological survey of randomly selected school children.Criteria for social class was based on registrar general's social class.Setting: Primary schools from different parts of Ibadan city, Nigeria.Subjects: 493 school children aged 7-10 years consisting of 237(48.1%)boys and 256 (51.9%) girls.Main outcome measures: Only children still actively involved in oral habits were coded...

Objectives: To determine and assess the chronic zinc nutritional status of pre-school and school children living in a mixed-income, low-density (mild) community in southern Ghana and determine if zinc deficiency was implicated in growth stunting of the children.Design: Prospective/comparative study.Setting: A cluster of schools, made up of a nursery, two primary schools and two Junior Secondary School pupils living in Kwabenya, a village recently transformed into an urban community.Subjects:...

To determine and evaluate dietary intake of selenium and copper by resident undergraduate students of the University of Ghana.Prospective/comparative study.The university of Ghana, Legon, Accra.One hundred and fifty undergraduate resident students in five out of seven halls of residence of the University of Ghana.Pre-tested structure questionnaires were administered to informed students to obtain personal data, intake of selenium, copper and/or multimineral supplements and foods consumed as...

Objective: To determine the plasma magnesium levels in adult asthmatics.Design: Case control study.Setting: Lagos University Teaching Hospital,

I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Cote d'Ivoire in the medium and long term (1998-2015). The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses concerning the evolution of returns to education and labour demand are tested. The direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational...

This article analyzes South Africa's efforts to promote broader participation in educational decision-making through local school governance structures in which parents serve as majority members. We utilize the theory of action framework to understand both government policy and school-level actors' meanings of two dimensions of governance: participation and representation. The analysis considers policy statements, government efforts to monitor implementation, and extensive data from parents,...