The resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) has been associated mainly with Human Immuno deficiency Virus (HIV) and widespread poverty. The HIV pandemic and emergence of resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis threatens ...

Global events concerning poor performance and eventual collapse of high profile companies have awakened need to strengthen corporate governance in both developed and developing countries. Corporate governance issues have ...

The emergence and spread of multidrug resistant Plasmodium falciparum has severely limited therapeutic options for the treatment of malaria. With ever-increasing failure rates associated with chloroquine or sulphadoxine- ...

Several studies have shown that odors of plant and animal origin can be developed into lures for use in surveillance of mosquito vectors of infectious diseases. However, the effect of combining plant- and mammalian-derived ...

ABSTRACT Bloody diarrhea causes substantial morbidity and mortality in Africa, but data on the epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility to the common causative pathogens is limited. Amongst the well-recognized bacterial ...

Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) are among of the most common causes of both illness and mortality in children under five years of age. A prevalence of between 11% and 29% has been reported in studies conducted in the ...

Acute lower respiratory tract infection is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children under five years of age in developing countries. Although several investigations have been carried out in Africa and ...

Hypertension ranks third in the world, after underweight and unsafe sex, in the list of six major risk factors contributing to the global disease. It has shown to be a leading risk to cardiovascular disease and stroke. In ...

Four million children die in their first twenty eight days of life. HIV infection during pregnancy has contributed to the early neonatal mortalities. Post neonatal and child mortality have declined over a decade in ...

About 9% of Sub Sahara Africa (SSA) children have moderate acute malnutrition and 2% of children in developing countries have Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). There is no such information about children to allow planning ...