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Across the entire globe, 75% of people are aware of their HIV Status, at the same time 79% of the people living with HIV are now accessing anti-retroviral therapy while 81% of those people are at the same time accessing the treatment and have suppressed viral loads. Nakuru County viral suppression stands at 88.3 % (30,407) below the UNAIDS … Continue Reading
The World Health Organization (WHO, 2018) defines adolescents as individuals in the 10-19 years age group. Every year estimated 21million girls aged 15-19 years, and 2.5 million girls under 15 years become pregnant and approximately 3.9 million girls aged 15-19 years undergo unsafe abortion every year. Despite the high sexual activity by… Continue Reading
Globally, community case management of malaria (CCMM) has proved to be effective in the management of malaria as the community as health workers as they provide the necessary outreach in getting to the household and capturing the cases in the community. The access to healthcare in Kenya is riddled with cases of affordability, acceptability and… Continue Reading
Background: The National Malaria Control Program of Ghana recommends the use of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (SP) 10 prevent malaria and associated complications. There is overwhelming evidence, however thai uptake of this inlervention in th ecountry is Jow. This low uptake is… Continue Reading
Introduction: Obesity has been described as an epidemic with more than one-third of children aged of 2 to 19, said to be overweight or obese, as at 2013 (CDC). Adult obesity has been strongly linked with obesity in childhood and adolescence. It is therefore imperative to tackle this problem in the adolescent stage, to prevent entering… Continue Reading
Introduction and objectives: Breastfeeding is recommended for infants from birth to two years and beyond and is expected to be offered to be offered on demand. In developed countries, women have suffered abuse (verbally or physically confronted) and made to feel embarrassed for breastfeeding in public places. It is not clear if… Continue Reading
Public policies on education form a framework of the direction governments intend the education sector to take with the view to enhancing the efficiency and productivity of its human resources in order to achieve the nation‟s needed development. This is due to the prime place the human capital occupies in coordinating the other factors… Continue Reading
The study sought to establish the factors that lead to low birth weight (LB W) of children born in the health units in Bushenyi district. The objectives were to establish the prevalence of LBW of babies born in the health units and to establish the relationship between LBW and selected risk factors. The first four hundred and ninety five… Continue Reading
The problem of every hospital when the targeted objective is not achieved is that there is something wring either with health care givers, the patients or the general public. In order to improve the standard of health of the patients and keep them progressively fit. The reason why such lapse are present here to be sought and the remedy… Continue Reading
The lack of culturally appropriate norms for assessing the speech and language status of children has been an ongoing issue. At present, there are no normative data against which to assess the phonological skills of children. The purpose of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of phonological awareness (PA) training with… Continue Reading
This research project was carried out to know the knowledge and attitude of the public towards mental illness. Mental illness is a complex problem. It is thought to be a unique response involving an individual’s personality as it interacts as it interacts with his environment at a time when he is particularly vulnerable to stress.… Continue Reading
The study assessed the perspectives of nurses in Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria on the effectiveness of substance abuse management. It made use of a descriptive research design. The study was conducted at the Department of Nursing, Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun state, Nigeria. A sample size of… Continue Reading
These study is structurally designed to determine the prevalence and factors responsible for Tramadol Abuse among patients in Federal Neuropsychiatric hospital calabar, Nigeria between 2013 and 2018. It's aimed at determining the sociodemographic characteristics associated with Tramadol abusers and the perceived psychological, and socioeconomic … Continue Reading
This study titled “the incidence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder “ADHD” was carried out in ECWA School of Nursing on student nurses as a study group for the research. The major objective is to explore, determine and analyze the incidence rate of the occurrence of this disorder and also considered secondary purpose is the… Continue Reading
This study investigated influence of gender and self-esteem on depression among diabetic patients. One hundred and thirty (130) diabetic patients (77 with low self-esteem and 53 with high self-esteem) were used. Males and females were 65 each. Self-rating depression scale Zung (1965) and index of self-esteem Hudson (1982) were used. A 2x2… Continue Reading
ABSTACT The effect of 0.25mg/kg weight of diesel on the liver function of male wistar rats was investigated. Ten male wistar rats were used and were grouped into two; experimental and control. The experimental group was fed with rat chawl and a mixture of diesel with water ad-libitum while the control was fed with rat chawl and tap water for… Continue Reading
Anti-diabetic and Anti-oxidant potentials of Aqueous Extract of Eucalyptus Globulus in experimentally induced diabetic rats.… Continue Reading
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Certification Dedication Acknowledgements Table of contents List of tables List of figures Abstract CHAPTER ONE 1. Introduction 1.1 cannabis sativa 1.2 cannabis and cannabinoids 1.3 Vernonia amygdalina CHAPTER TWO 2 Literature Review 2.1 Effects of… Continue Reading
Background: Evaluation of the medicinal uses of plants remains a growing field of research. This study investigated the effects of Eucalyptus globules on alloxan -induced diabetic rats. Materials and Methods: Thirty male albino rats were randomized into 5 groups (n=6).Group A served as the control and was maintained on standard rat chow… Continue Reading
In a world where streets level are raising exposure to natural sunlight is diminishing, and technology is leading to constant demand of everybody’s attention, it’s no surprise that so many people struggle is get enough sleep. What does it mean to be sleep deprived? What are some of the negative effects of sleep deprivation? … Continue Reading
TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE CERTIFICATION DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TABLE OF CONTENT LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES ABSTRACT CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 AIM OF THE STUDY 2 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 2 1.3 LIST OF… Continue Reading
Pedometers are increasingly being used as a surveillance tool to objectively assess ambulatory (walking) activity levels and patterns in different populations. This research therefore aims to monitor the level of activity using a pedometer among the male undergraduate students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu, South west, Nigeria.… Continue Reading
Diabetes mellitus commonly known as diabetes is a group of metabolic disorder characterized by high blood sugar level over a prolonged period (WHO,2014) This research is aimed at investigating effect of solanum macrocapon and Anti-diabetic drug glibenclamide on some blood parameters of alloxan induced diabetic rats. The effects of four eggplant… Continue Reading
Ocimum gratissimum and crassocephalum crepidiodes are used commonly in traditional medicine to treat certain diseases. This study accessed the histological effects of aqueous extract of Ocimum gratissimum and crassocephalum crepidiodes leaves on the kidney of adult Wistar rats. Ten adult Wistar rats were assigned into two groups (A and B) of 5rats… Continue Reading
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