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The study investigated the career perceptions and visions of boys and girls in secondary schools. Subjects (N=120) were students enrolled in Fonns 1 to 6 who were drawn from secondary schools in ManicalanJ and Masvingo educational regions. An open-ended questionnaire ivas used to generate data. The Pearson Product Moment Conelation (r) was used to analyse the data. Results showed that both boys and girls had similar perceptions about male and female jobs. It was also indicated that relatives...

To compare the prevalence of chronic supperative otitis media (CSOM) among two populations of school children.A survey-demographic data collection and otoscopy was carried out among the two populations of school children.A rural government primary school and an urban private primary schoolSix hundred and ninety nine school pupils in the rural school and two hundred and seventy pupils in the urban school.Six per cent of the pupils in the rural schools had CSOM as evidenced by persistent...

Context: Antepartum fetal death is a significant contributor to perinatal mortality and challenges the adequacy of antenatal surveillance. Identifying the causes and risk factors for death may aid its prevention. Aim: To determine the causes of antepartum fetal death and identify associated risk factors. Subjects and Methods: All antepartum fetal deaths, with fetuses weighing 1 kg or more, delivered at Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa between January 1996 and December 2000 were the subjects. The...

Context: For the most part, adolescents are informed about HIV, its means of transmission and its method of prevention, but a large proportion of them still engage in patterns of sexual behaviour that may expose them to contracting HIV infection Objective: To examine the pattern of sexual behaviour of Nigerian adolescents and its possible determinants, so as to identify areas requiring emphasis in existing HIV/AIDS prevention programs Design, Setting and Subjects:A questionnaire survey was...

Context: Regular auditing of caesarean sections is necessary to establish trend, review indications, associated complications and proffer possible solutions to improve outcome. Objective: To audit caesarean sections done over a 5-year period from January 1996 to December 2000 and to compare such with those from the same hospital 20 years ago. Materials and Methods: A review of the clinical records of all mothers who had caesarean sections from January 1996 – December 2000 was made. Data on...

Upper gastrointestinal tract involvement in HIV/AIDS is common. No data exist on the pattern of upper gastrointestinal endoscopic findings in HIV/AIDS patients in Nigeria.To describe the pattern of upper gastrointestinal endoscopic findings in HIV/AIDS patients.A hospital based retrospective case-control study involving 52 HIV/AIDS patients and 52 age and sex matched controls.Medicine Department of the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.Medical records of patients with HIV/AIDS and an...

A prospective survey of Abdominal Wall Hernia patients was done in LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, from November 2000 to February 2002. The objective is to determine the pattern, management and outcome in a 101 patients with 110 hernias. Males accounted for 88.1% of the patients with mean age of 51.1 ± 11.7 years and 48.5% were farmers. Benign prostatic hyperplasia coexisted with hernia in 19.8% of patients. Inguinal/inguino-scrotal was the commonest (88.1%), while femoral hernia was rare...

A restrospective study of gynaecological malignant tumours was undertaken between January 1990 - December 1999 inclusive. It consisted of all gynecological specimens sent to histopathology laboratory in 10% formalin-saline solution. Those diagnosed as malignant tumours were retrieved from our records. A total of 2,673 malignant tumours were recorded out of which 386 were of gynaecological malignant tumours.Cancer of the cervix accounted for77.0% which were seen in advanced stages, followed...

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical, electrocardiographic (ECG) and echocardiograhic features of adult Nigerians presenting with atrial Fibrillation (AF) at the cardiology unit. Method: All consenting patients presenting to the cardiology unit of LUTH from September 2000 to September 2001 with ECG evidence of AF were recruited into the study. Demographic and anthropometric data were obtained. The subjects had a full clinical examination. 2D and M-mode echocardiogram was performed on the...

The purpose of this research is to identify and understand factors of body image influencing physical exercise behaviour among black South African women and men. There were 289 participants, 189 women and 100 men chosen from non-health sciences courses in a class setting. Results indicated that more than a third of the participants indicated that they had engaged three or more times a week in vigorous physical activity. More than one-third (35%) of the women were overweight or obese and a...

Abstract Integrated dynamic water and chloride balance models with a catchment‐scale hydrological model (PRMS) are used to investigate the response of a terminal tropical lake, Lake Abiyata, to climate variability and water use practices in its catchment. The hydrological model is used to investigate the response of the catchment to different climate and land‐use change scenarios that are incorporated into the lake model. Lake depth–area–volume relationships were established from lake...

We report 38 new 3He/4He ratios for mafic phases in basalts and ultramafic xenolith whole rock and mineral separates from 10 of the 12 main volcanic centers of the intraplate Cameroon Volcanic Line in West Africa. Samples range in eruption age from ∼6 Ma to the present. This constitutes yet the largest helium data set for the 1600-km long mainly alkaline volcanic chain. 3He/4He ratios are all lower than expected for ‘high 3He/4He’ hotspots like Loihi and Iceland, demonstrating that none of...

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Less than 1 percent of children in sub-Sahara Africa currently attend formal care and education programmes, but the number is expected to increase substantially following large investments in the sector. To date, however, little attention has been given to the contents of these programmes. This article seeks to begin addressing this lacuna, drawing on Botswana’s day care experience, and suggests that greater attention should be given to juxtaposing internationally accepted childrearing...

Research into school curricula indicates an instability of focus. Curriculum may refer to a disciplinary perspective on a programme, to what practitioners 'do' in a programme, to programme content and its arrangement, to the hidden assumptions patterning thought and action and embedded in the discourse of a curriculum, to the historical and political context of curriculum, to the official curriculum, to the curriculum as curriculum-in-use, to combining academic disciplines in Learning Areas,...

Abstract We use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries to investigate whether exporting impacts on efficiency, and whether efficient firms self-select into the export market. Based on simultaneous estimation of a production function and an export regression, our preferred results indicate significant efficiency gains from exporting, which can be interpreted as learning by exporting. We show that modelling unobserved heterogeneity by a flexible approach...

lthough there has been a world-wide decline in the perinatal mortality rate over the past decades due to the improvement in the health services, it is still a major public health problem. Despite great strides in obstetrical services and neonatal care, perinatal mortality has not been completely eliminated. In view of this, we designed our study. The study was carried out in Wad Medani Teaching Hospital, Medani City, Sudan. Case notes were reviewed for all perinatal deaths and deliveries...