Abstract Pneumonia has contributed greatly to child mortality, especially among children under the ages of five in sub-Saharan Africa, killing more children than the number of children dying from HIV/AIDS. The current methods of diagnosing pneumonia involved physical examination and chest x-ray which are limited by low accuracy, high error margins, higher cost, and stands the risks of inducing cancer. In this work, a low-cost, non-invasive biomedical device was designed and developed to impro...
ABSTRACT The polio eradication programme currently present in Nigeria has not resulted in the complete eradication of the disease. This has prompted an investigation into the awareness and perception of recipients of the programme in Gombe Local Government Area (LGA), Gombe State. The survey sample size was >1-22parents. These were selected via a multistage sampling system. An additional 24 parents and 6 community leaders were purposely selected to participate in focus group discussions and i...
ABSTRACT This quasi-experimental study compared the relative efficacy of teacher instructions alone, peer education alone, and a combination of these two on reproductive health knowledge, attitude, perceived self-efficacy and sexual practices among secondary schools students in the lbarapa district of Southwestern Nigeria. 1 baseline questionnaire was administered to a systematic sample of students ill four schools that were randomized into four treatment arms: teacher instructions alone (E'l...
ABSTRACT Research 011 sexual violence is fraught with ethical and methodoogical challenges due to its sensitive nature. This paper describes the ethical and methodological challenges encountered in planning and conducting two exploratory studies on sexual violence that included in-depth interviews of eight female adolescent rape survivors in Ibadan and four married women in Lagos Nigeria who were raped,forced to perform sexual acts and sexually deprived. The first challenge encountered was an...
ABSTRACT This study explored the sexual behaviour of unmarried female students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and assessed the extent to which those who were sexually active negotiated and used the male condom. Four focus group discussions were conducted followed by a survey of 354 students. The results show that the mean age of the students was 22·5 years 55'1% had had sexual intercourse; the mean age at first intercourse was 16'5 years. The number of lifetime sexual partners ranged ...
ABSTRACT In Nigeria, as in many developing countries, the private. health sector provides a significant proportion of reproductive health services. However, there-are concerns about the quality of the reproductive health services' provided by personnel operating in this sector. Few interventions exist to improve the quality of reproductive health services being provided by 'private practitioners', 'This three year intervention project, which was implemented in Oyo, Ogun and Gombe States, was ...