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Uganda has just experienced the largest outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) ever recorded. Mbarara University Teaching Hospital (MUTH) is responsible for training approximately one-third of Uganda's doctors. Mbarara is located in SouthWest Uganda, 614 km from Gulu, the main epicentre of the outbreak. On 23 October a patient was admitted to the medical ward of MUTH with an acute fever. He soon exhibited haemorrhagic symptoms and died. He was later confirmed to have suffered Ebola....
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In October 2000 legislation was passed by the National Assembly to amend the Higher Education Act (Act 101 of 1997). A number of the amendments were aimed at limiting the operations of private and foreign higher education institutions in South Africa. Good arguments exist for the legislation as accepted, but questions are also being raised as to whether the amended Act might represent some form of protectionism, allowing certain local higher education institutions to continue with weak...
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The definition, historical background, aims dimensions and the characteristics of medical audit as well as the indices to be measured in a medical audit exercise are highlighted. The preliminary experience of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) in the planning, implementation and monitoring of a viable medical audit programme is reviewed. The steps involved included among others: (a) Planning for medical audit including creation of awareness among the stakeholders on the...
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The prospects for educational development are excellent in Madagascar, in light of the increasingly favorable, policy environment for the sector. Public spending for education, relative to the gross domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding with a five-fold rise in the country's interest payment for external debt. As the debt service burden began to ease in the late 90s, public spending on education began to recover, and can be expected to grow. A key challenge however, is to...
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The issue of female education under colonial powers and the impact that it had on the cultures of the colonized is gaining in importance among colonial historians, feminist scholars, and education specialists. While academic research addressing the British and French use of formal educational systems as a means to gain power, produce a semiskilled labor class, and spread European culture has flourished, only recent research has examined different colonial philosophies regarding the education...
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Health is considered to be a fundamental human right and developing a better understanding of health is assumed to be a global social goal (Bloom, 1987). Yet many third-world countries and some sub-populations within developed countries do not enjoy a healthy existence. The research reported in this paper examined the conceptions of health and conceptions of illness for a group of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Papua New Guinea university students studying health science courses....
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The purpose of this study was to identify the sources of enjoyment in competitive sport experienced by individuals with visual impairments. Study participants were 20 sportsmen with visual impairments, all of whom had sufficient skill and experience to compete in South African national championships in goalball, swimming, or track and field. Each of these sportsmen was interviewed using a semi-structured qualitative interview with an open-ended response format. Verbatim transcripts of each...
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This publication comprises two papers, both written during January and February 2002 when the author was a guest researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI). In the first paper, The Language Q ...
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The unique contributions that parenting processes (high levels of monitoring with a supportive, involved mother‐child relationship) and classroom processes (high levels of organization, rule clarity, and student involvement) make to children’s self‐regulation and adjustment were examined with a sample of 277 single‐parent African American families. A multi‐informant design involving mothers, teachers, and 7‐ to 15‐year‐old children was used. Structural equation modeling indicated that...
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The international communications network is both a feature of globalization and a condition of possibility for the process of globalization. Universities are willy-nilly part of the process. This poses a range of dilemmas for universities in Africa. In this article we focus on some dilemmas of distributive justice as indicated in the question: Should South African universities introduce or develop on-line learning for flexible mode delivery under circumstances in which some students do not...
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The education reform efforts in Botswana have focused predominantly on teacher preparation, recruitment and compensation. Recruitment efforts have resulted in a significant number of expatriates working with indigenous teachers in many schools. However as the schools are currently upgraded and restructured, the quality of the working relationships forged between indigenous and expatriates teachers represents one vital aspect in the reform effort that has gone almost unattended This article...
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Objective: To evaluate effectiveness of smoke reduction interventions in rural homes. Methods: 24-hour kitchen respirable particles (kPM3.5), kitchen CO (kCO), and personal CO (pCO) for the cook were assessed before and after interventions in Kajiado (n=25) and West Kenya (n=25). Women participated in developing interventions, including improved stoves (12), enlarged windows (all) and eaves (27), and hoods (17). Results: Pollution/exposure levels were high: mean 24h kPM3.5 5,530 µg/m 3...