ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study, which was conducted from 1 to 31 October 2012, was aimed at describing the main factors that influence adolescent adherence to antiretroviral treatment in three selected health facilities of ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The retention and throughput rates of postgraduate students are a national and an international concern. There is a tendency for postgraduate students, irrespective of which Master of Occupational Therapy ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Introduction: Many people residing in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) are regularly exposed to catastrophic healthcare expenditure. It is therefore pertinent that LMICs should finance their ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigated the problem of HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination in faith communities and explored the contributing factors in order to inform effective intervention strategies. The non-experimental ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Long waiting time for patients at emergency centres globally is having a negative impact on service delivery to patients and family members. The aim of this study was to explore and investigate ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Inappropriate feeding practices are a major cause of malnutrition in young children. Within this context, it has been well documented that the incidence of malnutrition rises sharply during the period ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: HIV/AIDS is a global challenge. More resources and effort have been channelled towards mitigating the spread of HIV/AIDS. The use of condoms has been proven to be one of the methods that may be used to ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study seeks to find factors that influence parents to disclose or withhold HIV status to the children who are living with HIV/AIDS. The observation from practice in the HIV clinics is that some ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In order to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the Ministry of Education in Namibia realized that it was better to focus on young children who are at the phase of behaviour formation. Consequently the life ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In view of the escalating shortage of nurses, attention is focused on the emerging workforce and efforts to retain new nurse graduates. The aim of this study was to investigate possible factors that could ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Tanzania has documented risky and abusive behaviors to children, 10% of young people 15-19 years old have had their first sexual intercourse before the age of 15 years. 38.3% of girls and 30.7% of boys ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: Globally the percentage of women living with HIV is high. They constitute 48% of people living with HIV. The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of specific factors known to ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Disruptive behaviour among health care providers in high stress areas such as the perioperative setting has been linked to negative patient safety. Conflicts of power, role and personality lead to ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The migratory flow of Africans to South Africa form the north of Africa was restrained until the early 1990's. Before this period the political ideology of apartheid discriminated against African ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Violence against women, commonly known as women abuse, is currently evolving into a serious social problem. In South Africa thousands of women are victims of violence inflicted by their intimate partners. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The advent of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) has bought hope and reprieve in a previously hopeless situation where there was no available drug to combat the virus with the result that AIDS deaths from ...