Abstract This study was aimed at providing comprehensive information on infant and young child feeding practices adopted by HIV positive mothers participating in the nation’s pilot PMTCT programme in the Manya Krobo District, Eastern Region of Ghana. It also drew comparisons with the same feeding practices among mothers of unknown HIV status.Secondly, the study provided information on the relationships between infant and young child feeding practices and selected background factors of ...
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can be promising delivery nanodevices for a diverse range of applications, however, little is known about their dynamical interactions with moving nanoscale particles. In this paper, dynamic response of a SWCNT subjected to a moving nanoparticle is examined in the framework of the nonlocal continuum theory of Eringen. The inertial effects of the moving nanoparticle and the existing friction between the nanoparticle surface and the inner surface of the S...
ABSTRACT Scientific evidence on infant and young child feeding practices from developing countries show that progress is possible when effective strategies and sufficient resources are applied. However, significant gaps in complementary feeding continue to undermine child health. There is limited scientific data on complementary feeding practices and its relation to nutritional status of children aged 6-23 months old in Kenya’s urban slums. The study therefore investigated complementary fe...
TABLE OF CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTAPPROVALDECLARATIONDEDICATION..ivLIST OF ACRONYMS vCHAPTER ONE 1Introduction I1.lbackground of the study 11.2 Statement of the problem 31 .3 Purpose of the study 31.4. Objectives of the study 31.5 Research questions 31.6 Scope of the study 41.7 Significance of the study 41.8 Limitation of the study 51.9 Research procedures 5CHAPTER TWO 72.0 Introduction 72.1 Relationship between parental care and adolescent’s sexual bbehaviors 72.2 Relationships between adole...
ABSTRACT Background: Ghana including 20 other countries in 2009 were earmarked for rapid PMTCT interventions scale-up within their primary care system for maternal and child health. This intervention became operationalized in June 2015 with the introduction of the PMTCT option B+ where HIV-positive women are initiated on lifelong ARVs regardless of their CD4 count upon immediate diagnosis of HIV and infants born to HIV-positive women receive daily zidovudine (AZT) for the first 4–6 weeks of...
ABSTRACT Over the years, the business environments are increasingly becoming highly integrated and more complex due to a sudden rise to the numerous business functions and operations at the various work places. At the same time, the management function is undoubtedly faced with the challenge of keeping track of all the diverse organizational resources, numerous business activities, together with monitoring the entire business processes and the huge order-turnover processes. In light of the fo...
Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) are transforming masculinities in the context of family crises facing the modern family. This is because despite global, regional and national efforts by Governments and other agencies the incidences of family crises such as GBV, separation and divorce still persist. A growing body of literature links negative masculinities with family crises. Specifically this study sought to explore how Kenya Anglican Men Association (KAMA) and Presbyterian Church Men F...
Abstract Tanzania has embarked on several radical measures to restructure its economy and governance structures, including local governments. For more than four decades, Tanzania has been striving relentlessly for effective decentralisation measures, yet the progress has been slow. The country has passed through several phases of decentralisation, with each phase inheriting some criticised characteristics that have been difficult to dismantle in the successive phases. For example, previously...
ABSTRACT The research topic of the study was domestic violence against women and girl child education in Bundibugyo district Bwamba county. The problem was retardation of girl child education in Bundibugyo district Bwamba county. The purpose of the study is to establish how domestic violence against women has retarded girl child education in Bundibugyo district, Bwamba county Bubandi sub county .. The objectives of the study were; to establish the extent to which socio-demographic factors of...
ABSTRACT This study examined the perceptions of stakeholders on contents of Facebook pages of organisations in the food and beverage sector (Kasapreko Company Limited and Fan Milk Limited, Ghana). The followers’ underlying motivations for engaging with the organisations on Facebook, their expectations and perceptions about page contents and management were investigated. The study employed a descriptive survey design, and a sample size of 200 respondents were selected using a systematic sam...
PROPOSAL The purpose of this research work is to examine the economic and social effect of rural-urban migration in Local Government with special emphasis on Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State for the purpose of getting the required information from the respondents.The researcher made a personal contact and observation from the personal contact and observation, it was discovered that Ikole Local Government is one of the Local Government that play an important role in rural urban ...
Abstract: Since the collapse the government in 1991, Somalia has witnessed prevalent violence and the creation of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) in 2012 has not abated the situation as the FGS remains largely infective in protecting the population including children against human rights violation and abuse. Furthermore, Somalia law is based on traditional and Shari’a law, Xeer, which gives little room for children rights protection in the county. The purpose of this study was to e...
Abstract Health systems in developing nation especially low and low-middle income countries is characterised with numerous challenges which ranges from inefficient health information system, poor health delivery system, mortality and morbidity rate of disease and ailments, inadequate health manpower etc. The growth of ICT especially in developing nations has been on the increase bringing about a lot of invention amongst which mobile technology is one. Mobile technology as a significant ICT t...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND People with advanced HIV I AIDS are vulnerable to infections and malignancies that are called opportunistic infections because they have a weakened immune system. Opportunistic infections continue to cause morbidity and mortality in patients with Human Immune Deficiency Virns (HIV)-1 infection. Some Ois only affect women or affect women more than men.Potent combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has reduced the incidence of Ols for certain patients with access to care. H...
Mangoes are grown in tropical and subtropical regions with india leading world production. The fruit is a good source of fibers and vitamins (Tedjo et al, 2002) and is described as the most favourite and valuable fruit in world market (olli et al., 1996). Besides, the fruit is rich in antioxidants and therefore reduces the risk of cardiac disease, anti-cancer and anti-viral activities (Schieber et al., 2003, Barreto et al., 2008, Daud et al. 2010). Daud et al., (2010) indicated that the mangi...