Your search

Abstract Health services in sub-Saharan Africa are under great pressure to provide adequate clinical care due to the continued HIV epidemic, and nurse-driven models of care are one means to address physician shortages. This case–control study examines the reasons for and correlates of patient referral from nurses to physicians at HIV primary care clinics in South Africa prior to initiating antiretroviral treatment. Ninety-seven HIV-infected cases who required physician consolation and 160...

This paper is an aid policy appraisal in the educational development system of Lesotho as a developing country, among other characteristics a usual development aid recipient. Foreign aid in development process is also one phenomenon with inherent limitations requiring integrated solutions in advance. The inbuilt precincts emanate from adopted development paradigms and/or set conditionalities or attached strings by the foreign donors or lending Bretton Woods’s institutions. Such development...

The paper discussed the standard of nomadic Education in Jigawa State of Nigeria, it further deliberated on the problems and prospects faced by these nomads in terms of education.This brought to the fore the difficult and pathetic situation of the Nomadic Fulanis in terms of Western Education.Recommendations were then made on what should be done to help salvage the situation.

The objective of this study is to highlight the clinical spectrum of surgical and gynaecological abdominal emergencies in an urban teaching hospital in Nigeria. All emergency abdominal operations carried out in LASUTH between July, 2004 and December, 2006 were retrospectively studied. Data extracted from case files of patients, theatre operation registers and ward registers were analyzed. A total of 803 patients were reviewed. There were 254(31.6%) males and 549(68.4%) females. Ectopic...

The importance of adapted physical education in the socio-economic and cultural development of children with visual impairment cannot be over-emphasized.Pupils with visual impairment are not often considered in the current physical Education content.The paper advocates the need to adapt the existing physical education curriculum to suit the needs of pupils with visual impairment.Guidelines on the instructional adaptation are also presented and the benefits of having qualified teachers...

In this paper, we discuss the extent to which selected first year students from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Botswana read for leisure.From the interviews, questionnaires and observations, students in the Faculty of Humanities do very little reading for leisure.Reading for leisure needs to be encouraged among university students in general as it encourages the acquisition of knowledge and it is also a form of relaxation.

Intellectual impairment is a devastating complication of many diseases, the consequences of which are far-reaching, particularly for young people in their most productive years. Limited data exists on the impact of cognitive impairment among young Nigerians; hence, this cross-sectional study set out to determine whether there are differences in the performance of normal Nigerian students on the Community Screening Instrument for Dementia (CSI-D) and whether such differences if any could be...

Surface water is undoubtedly one of the most precious natural resources that exist on our planet. The most unfortunate circumstances that man has found himself in, is the pollution of surface water bodies. In the past, the quest for wealth and to satisfy human wants and needs, man has hampered and greatly polluted the environment in which he lives in. The vulnerability of surface water in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria to frequent oil spills and has other pollutants have had negative...

Praziquantel (PZQ) is a drug of choice for treating schistosomiasis mansoni.Praziquantel was effectively used to treat schistosomiasis, but there are reports that indicate the appearance of Praziquantel resistance.The objective of this study was to determine the rate of S. mansoni infection before and after single treatment, thus to measure the efficacy of Praziquantel in treating Schistosoma mansoni infected individuals in the study area.The study utilized microscopic examination of two...

Information use is vital for enhancing staff collegiality in this information age. The main purpose of this research was to investigate to what extent information use has enhanced staff collegiality in secondary schools in Anambra State. Based on three research questions, the study employed a descriptive survey designed with a questionnaire in collecting data. Six hundred teachers and sixty principals in Anambra State were selected using simple random sampling technique. Data collected were...

The paper discusses the concept and usefulness of rapid reading. It also reports a study in which the Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria Sandwich students formed the subjects. Their pre-training reading speed and comprehension scores were determined through a pre-test, after which they were subjected to a series of practice sessions on speed reading and comprehension for six weeks. At the end of the study, their post-test scores on reading speed and comprehension showed a...

This paper discusses the efforts for effective and successful implementation of inclusive education in Nigeria.It also looks at factors that make the implementation possible such as modified curriculum, barrier-free-learning environment, adequate trained personnel, adequate funding and the roles of other professionals.This can help the genuine implementation of the programme, and some recommendations were made as per steps to take in order to have a successful adoption of inclusive education in Nigeria.

The talk you hear … about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's … dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. By the time you catch up to change, the competition is ahead of you. Peter Drucker This article proposes that implementation of public service reform programs in Tanzania has been a source of new ideas and innovations. It is proposed that the reform history and its management contribute to the learning achieved, associated with incremental changes. The...

The talk you hear … about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's … dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. By the time you catch up to change, the competition is ahead of you. Peter Drucker This article proposes that implementation of public service reform programs in Tanzania has been a source of new ideas and innovations. It is proposed that the reform history and its management contribute to the learning achieved, associated with incremental changes. The...

The talk you hear … about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's … dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. By the time you catch up to change, the competition is ahead of you. Peter Drucker This article proposes that implementation of public service reform programs in Tanzania has been a source of new ideas and innovations. It is proposed that the reform history and its management contribute to the learning achieved, associated with incremental changes. The...

In this paper, we discuss the extent to which selected first year students from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Botswana read for leisure.From the interviews, questionnaires and observations, students in the Faculty of Humanities do very little reading for leisure.Reading for leisure needs to be encouraged among university students in general as it encourages the acquisition of knowledge and it is also a form of relaxation.

Many had argued that African religion would decline with the advent of secular development.Instead, African Religion has arguably surged in numbers as well as visibility in Africa, the Caribbean, the United States of America, Latin America, Britain and the entire world.How does a discourse on the complementary roles of science and African Religion in promoting social transformation begin?What are the concrete areas of human activity that can be most meaningfully affected?What should be the...