This paper estimates the demand for nature based tourist visits to Zambia and the willingness of international tourists to pay to visit Zambia using a single site individual travel cost model. The model estimated is corrected for both truncation of the dependent variable and endogenous stratification that arises due to on-site sampling. We find a negative binomial specification provides stable ...

INTRODUCTION Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense typically causes acute and severe human African trypanosomiasis in Zambia and other countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. Although a few atypical cases of chronic and mild forms of this disease were reported in Zambia more than 40 years ago, no such cases have been diagnosed over the last four decades. CASE PRESENTATIONS For the first case, a 19...

This study was intended to investigate the factors associated with the high under-five mortality in one province of Zambia. Specifically the study (a) Identifies predominant traditional cultural beliefs and perceptions concerning main causes of child deaths; (b) assesses quality of health care services; and, (c) determines the causes of death among children under-five years. Multiple data colle...

BACKGROUND In high incidence settings, the majority of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) transmission occurs outside the household. Little is known about where people's indoor contacts occur outside the household, and how this differs between different settings. We estimate the number of contact hours that occur between adults and adult/youths and children in different building types in urban a...

In Zambia, circumcision is traditionally practiced on a large scale only in North-Western Province, an area with one of the lowest HIV rates in Zambia. Few ethnic groups in Zambia conduct male circumcision as a part of religious and cultural practices. The Luvale and Lunda of Northwestern Province practice traditional universal male circumcision, though there are small groups who also practice ...

INTRODUCTION: High and sustainable export growth, mainly driven by agricultural productivity, is critical for Zambia to reduce poverty and foster economic development. Despite the fact that, Zambia’s economic policies have for a long time emphasised export diversification, copper remains the main export commodity for Zambia. Coffee, an essential export commodity in most eastern African countrie...

Radio listening in Zambia is dominated by state-run ZNBC's three radio stations Radio 1, Radio 2 and music/entertainment-based Radio 4. Seventy eight percent of weekly radio listeners in Zambia said they often listen to one of three state-run stations. Zambia also has a few locally focused private or nonprofit, community radio stations, which broadcast in English and/or local provincial languag...

Understanding the evolutionary relationships of Trypanosoma (Duttonella) vivax genotypes between West Africa and Southern Africa can provide information on the epidemiology and control of trypanosomosis. Cattle blood samples from Zambia and Ghana were screened for T. vivax infection using specie-specific PCR and sequencing analysis. Substantial polymorphism was obtained from phylogenetic analys...

1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 2 Alfredo da Matta Foundation, Manaus, Brazil, 3 Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Kampala, Uganda, 4 National Institute of Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania, 5 The National Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Center for Disease Control, Nanjing, China, 6 The Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Pe...

Our aim in this study was to investigate the relationships among a calling orientation, work role fit, psychological meaningfulness and work engagement of teachers in Zambia. A quantitative approach was followed and a cross-sectional survey was used. The sample (n = 150) included 75 basic and 75 secondary school teachers in the Choma district of Zambia. The Work Role Fit Scale, Work-Life Questi...