In 1987 in three regions around the Kamoto Hospital, Zambia, the nutritional status of under-fives was studied to investigate the prevalence of malnutrition and some of its possible contributing factors, such as maternal ...

The oral glucose tolerance test is widely used as a screening test for impaired glucose tolerance. Criteria for abnormal results in pregnancy have been documented from different countries and in Zimbabwe, the North American ...

Septic shock is a complex event with activation of many inflammatory pathways. Recent advances have begun to make some sense of the pathophysiological events. This review describes the historical background to the contemporary ...

Over the past two years, the Gokwe districts in the Midlands Province have implemented aggressive measles control activities, targeting children aged nine months to 10 years. These included massive and extensive ...

Confounding and effect modification, two very important statistical concepts that may occur both in the statistical modelling of epidemiological data and other medically related data are seldom considered during the analysis ...

The common understanding of sigmoid volvulus is that it affects the elderly. This belief was modified recently by Slurzaker [ et al ] who pointed out that the diagnosis may be missed in young people in Britain. However, ...

Schistosomiasis remains the second most important parasitic disease in Zimbabwe. In terms of its combined morbidity and prevalence, schistosomiasis is thought to be the most important helminth infection of man. Since 1984, ...

Health providers have 'only recently been paying attention to the attitudes of women towards antenatal care programmes. Previously, the benefits of antenatal care (ANC) were considered so self evident that the consumers ...

Both traditional and modem methods of family planning widely practiced currently in most countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, focus solely on the woman. There is hardly data on male directed methods of fertility ...