Many postgraduate family medicine training programmes have been developed to meet the worldwide dire need for practicing family physicians. This study was conducted in Gezira state of Sudan in a "before-and-after" design in the period of 2010-2012 with the aim to assess improvements in candidates' confidence in performing certain clinical skills. A self-evaluation questionnaire was used with a ...

Having clear picture on food security status and its major determinants helps policy makers planners to introduce new policies that enhance security. The study was aimed evaluate the impact of policies, strategies institution poverty vegetables farmers in Gezira State with reference Blue Nile farmers. To achieve these objectives stratified random sampling technique used select respondents from ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent to which families follow referral and follow-up recommendations given in accordance with the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) strategy and the factors that influence families' responses to such recommendations. METHODS Children aged 2 months-5 years who presented to an IMCI-trained health worker in Massalamia Health Area, Sudan, were recru...

A total of 72 cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) cases referred to the Wad Madani Teaching Hospital between September 1999 and December 2000 were included in the present study. The patients were from different parts of the Gezira State. The duration of lesions varied between several days and more than one year, with the duration of most of them ranging between 1-3 months (91.6%). Different types of l...

This paper reports a study of the LifeStraw in El-Masraf camp within Gezira State, Sudan. A total of 647 eligible subjects participated in the study. Two week incidence of diarrhoeal rates were estimated by a community survey some four months before and again four months after provision of the LifeStraw. In addition counts were kept of people attending at the community clinic with diarrhoea. Co...

Sputum cytology is still one of the most effective and producible sample for diagnosis evaluation lung diseases disorders. For this, it can used apportunistic fungal pathogens on pulmonary tuberculosis patients, which leading cause death worldwide. On this cross sectional laboratory base study, to evaluate sputum presence opportunistic elements. A total 110 early morning expectorate collected f...