BACKGROUND In sub-Saharan Africa antiretroviral therapy (ART) is being decentralized from tertiary/secondary care facilities to primary care. The Lablite project supports effective decentralization in 3 countries. It began with a cross-sectional survey to describe HIV and ART services. METHODS 81 purposively sampled health facilities in Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe were surveyed. RESULTS The...

Cholera in Zimbabwe remains uncontrolled, with choleraassociated deaths continuing to be reported in 9 of the nation’s 10 provinces.1 In the 4 months since the outbreak began in August 2008, more than 35,000 suspected cases have been reported, including 1753 deaths. All provinces are affected but Harare sees almost one third of cases. It is possible that the cumulative numbers could double over...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of Cryptosporidium parvum in diarrhoeal patients. DESIGN This was a laboratory-based cross sectional study on cryptosporidiosis in diarrhoeal patients. SETTING Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences in Harare, Zimbabwe. SUBJECTS People of all ages with diarrhoea presenting at primary level health centres in Harare. MAI...

A total of 188 children with positive serology for HIV were identified during an 18 month period. Two seronegative children with clinical features of AIDS had seropositive mothers. Ten children were asymptomatic on initial testing; one has since died with infection. The commonest presenting features were generalised lymphadenopathy, failure to thrive, chronic diarrhoea, and pneumonia. Thirty fo...

This paper describes the collection of lion roar data at two different locations, an outdoor setting at Antelope Park in Zimbabwe and an indoor setting at Parken Zoo in Sweden. Preliminary analyses of spectrographic and waveform data are provided.

This paper explores the implications of Home Based Care on women‟s workload in the context of high HIV and AIDS prevalence rates in Zimbabwe as the country has experienced serious health worker migration since 2000. Health worker migration in Zimbabwe as a result of the weak performance of the economy over the years has inadvertently increased women‟s workload as more and more people adopt Home...

Rift Valley Fever is an acute zoonotic viral disease caused by Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV) that affects ruminants and humans in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. We used phylogenetic analyses to understand the demographic history of RVFV populations, using sequence data from the three minigenomic segments of the virus. We used phylogeographic approaches to infer RVFV historical m...

Drosophila melanogaster originated in tropical Africa but has achieved a cosmopolitan distribution in association with human habitation. Cosmopolitan populations of D. melanogaster are known to have reduced genetic variation, particularly on the X chromosome. However, the relative importance of population bottlenecks and selective sweeps in explaining this reduction is uncertain. We surveyed va...

Farmers in semi-arid Zimbabwe prioritise climate variability as their major agricultural productivity-reducing problem. This paper raises the importance of considering local farmers’ perceptions on climate risk, as this greatly influences on-farm investments and decision-making in agricultural management and production in semiarid Zimbabwe. A study was conducted in two districts of semi-arid Zi...