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Abstract Background: Accessibility to health services for students with disabilities is a global concern. This is no less important in Ghana, however, to date, no study has been undertaken regarding access to health services for students with disabilities. This study, therefore, aims to explore the accessibility of health services for students with disabilities, in the quest of achieving universal health coverage in Ghana. Methods: Qualitative methods, involving in-depth interviews were...

Introduction: Young people easily fall prey to risky and dangerous practices such as drug abuse, unprotected sexual intercourse etc. due to lack of knowledge about the implications of these practices. Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) was developed to solve this problem by educating young minds so that they can avoid risky sexual behaviours and live healthy lives. Methods: The ten countries in East and Southern Africa selected were those whose CSE curriculum had been reviewed by the...

HIV/AIDS in resource-limited settings poses a high risk of occupational exposure to healthcare workers due to higher number of HIV infected patients. Hence, antiretroviral based post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV is very crucial. The aim of the study was to determine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of medical and Health science students on antiretroviral based HIV PEP in University of Gondar comprehensive specialized hospital (UOGCSH), Northwestern Ethiopia.An...

This article provides rich detail of the drought history and associated societal consequences of central Namibia from the mid-19th to early-20th century.The detail and challenges covered in this paper will undoubtedly be useful for historical climatologists engaged in drought reconstruction methods from colonial sources.It was also nice to see such a study crossing the somewhat artificial but very real dividing line from 19th to 20th century, which I think is an important step for African...

The present study is an effort to discuss the relationship which has been established during time between Government and Public Institutions of Higher Education in Mozambique (PIHEd). Historically in Mozambique, the political system in force was not always the same (Mário Mário, Fry, Levey, Chilundo, 2003), actually, throughout the history, the political environment was changed from (i) the Portuguese colonial period, (ii) the post-independence period and the adoption of socialism and...

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As emergency medical services (EMS) systems develop globally in resource-limited settings, equipping providers with paediatric training is essential. Low-fidelity simulation-based training is an effective modality for training healthcare workers, though limited data exist on the impact of such training programmes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the paediatric portion of a simulation-based curriculum for prehospital providers in Botswana.This was a prospective cohort study of EMS...

Despite the high number of migrants involved in intra-West African migration, the work on education for marginalized groups pays little or no attention to the children of migrants. This study involving qualitative research into the factors keeping migrant children and youth out of school in Ghana is a step toward filling this gap. The research highlights the role that economic factors, the conflict between opposing value systems, the nature of migration, and the age at migration played in...

Managers and policy makers demand information on agriculture dynamics and distribution for the establishment of plans and strategies. For this purpose, the use of remote sensing data constitute an essential key to follow-up the agricultural systems dynamics. The aim of this study is to define a method based on fitted Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series extracted from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), trend analysis tests and machine learning...

Youths’ self-articulated goals in sub-Saharan Africa are often missing from scholarly and development discourses, creating a challenge for those aiming to establish effective development programs and policies. This chapter explores the goals of undergraduate university students in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, drawing on data from 23 in-depth interviews, 7 focus group discussions, and a survey of 267 undergraduate students in universities in Port Harcourt, Nigeria collected between July 2012...

Abstract Background Worldwide, countries are striving to achieve universal antiretroviral treatment (ART) coverage. In South Africa, given the shortage of specialist health care professionals in the public sector, lay HIV counsellors are at the forefront of many HIV related behavioural interventions. They have limited formal counselling training and little ongoing in-service support, leading to considerable variability in skills, knowledge, and approaches to counselling. We aimed to use the...

The major purpose of the study was to investigate factors which contribute to the decline in students’ academic performance in junior secondary schools in Botswana since 2010. The study was mainly quantitative and used the positivist inquiry paradigm. The study employed critical theory for its theoretical framework. Questionnaires were used to gather data from two hundred participants. Some documents were analyzed to supplement the information collected through the questionnaire. Data were...

Across the globe, academic staff members of accredited tertiary education institutions are expected to perform tasks pertaining to teaching and learning, research, and community engagement. Particularly in a South African dispensation, research shows that many accredited tertiary education institutions’ academic staff members have excessive teaching and learning workloads which, in turn, adversely affect their research productivity – their abilities to publish research outputs (e.g....

Utilizing interviews from South Africa and targeted surveys from Ghana, this chapter examines how confidence and socioeconomic background work together to shape the learning of girls across these various contexts. The point of this chapter is to show why noncognitive skills emphasized in the existing literature on the education of youth are by themselves insufficient. Rather, girls in these contexts need strategies to respond to challenges as well as institutions that seek to create...

Drawing on an ethnographic study of academic literacy practices in the applied social sciences, this paper builds on research which seeks to make visible the increasingly complex linguistic diversity in English-dominant universities (Universities in the Anglophone Centre: Sites of multilingualism. In L. Wei (Ed.). Applied linguistics review (Vol. 2, pp. 121-145). Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton) by offering a detailed reading of the multilingual repertoires reported by students who...

This article examined what U.S. college students who participated in a Ghana study abroad program learned about the history of racial oppression and the meaning-making that resulted from that knowledge. Based on inductive thematic analysis of a variety of qualitative data sources, four themes were identified: (1) the suffering and resilience of African and African descent people; (2) ‘it’s still happening today’; (3) ‘you don’t learn about that in school’; and (4) remembrance, equity, and...

The mercury content and the contamination characteristics of water, sediments, edible muscles of a non-piscivorous fish (Oreochromis nilotica Linnaeus 1758 [Cichlidae]) and yams (Dioscorea alata) from Namukombe stream in Busia gold district of Uganda were evaluated. Human health risk assessment from consumption of contaminated fish and yams as well as contact with contaminated sediments from the stream were performed. Forty-eight (48) samples of water (n = 12), sediments (n = 12), fish (n =...

Background: This study aimed to assess the impact of a new pediatric surgical unit (PSU) established upcountry in a unique way in a government hospital with a non-governmental organization as the main stakeholder. The unit is run by one pediatric surgeon trained through COSECSA. It is the second PSU in the country. This PSU brought pediatric surgical services and training closer to the Mbarara community. Methods: The study was conducted at Mbarara regional referral hospital (MRRH). It was a...