1 Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Ministry for Health and Child Welfare, Harare, Zimbabwe, 3 Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 4 Independent consultant, Harare, Zimbabwe, 5 United Nations Population Fund, Harare, Zimbabwe, 6 Zimbabwe National AIDS Council, Harare, Zimbabwe, 7 Biomedical Research and Training Institute...

The paper set out to investigate the effectiveness of the removals in transit (RIT) system in facilitating trade. The study wanted to establish whether the Removals in Transit system currently being used in Zimbabwe is effective enough, that is whether acquittals of entries are being done in the system properly or fraudulently. A sample size of 200 Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) employees a...

B. Nyamambi, L.R. Ndlovu, Y.S. Naik and N.D. Kock 1 Departments of Animal Science, Biochemistry and Veterinary Paraclinical Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe 2 Department of Environmental Science and Health, National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 3 Department of Pathology-Comparative Medicine, Medical Centre Boulevard, Schoo...

The sensory and genetic bases of incipient speciation between strains of Drosophila melanogaster from Zimbabwe and those from elsewhere are unknown. We studied mating behaviour between eight strains - six from Zimbabwe, together with two cosmopolitan strains. The Zimbabwe strains showed significant sexual isolation when paired with cosmopolitan males, due to Zimbabwe females discriminating agai...

commissioned in 1929 by the government of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) to research the language varieties spoken by Zimbabwean natives. His work, which was premised on the quest for standardised, monolithic and homogeneous linguistic categories, marked the genesis of language politics in Zimbabwe. The Dokean legacy left an indelible mark on the terrain of language treatment and lang...

of issues from an Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health in Southern Africa (see www.equinet.org.zw). Compiled by Training and Research Support Centre, Zimbabwe with NIDR Botswana, Medical School Zimbabwe, Centre for Health Policy, South Africa, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Blair Research Lab, Zimbabwe. Hara...

The objective of this study was to investigate the population structure of village chickens found in the five agro-ecological zones of Zimbabwe. Twenty-nine microsatellites were genotyped for chickens randomly selected from 13 populations, including the five eco-zones of Zimbabwe (n = 238), Malawi (n = 60), Sudan (n = 48) and six purebred lines (n = 180). A total of 280 alleles were observed in...

ORIGINAL ARTICLES Snakebite admissions in Zimbabwe: Pattern, clinical presentation and managment......................................... D Tagwireyi, DE Ball, CFB Nhachi.................................. 17 The effects of hospitalization on the sleep patterns of patients aged 2030 years old admitted at a central Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe...................................... HV Gundani, K M...

This paper was published in June 2003 as a chapter in: Roth, Michael, and Gonese, Francis eds. 2003. Delivering Land and Securing Rural Livelihoods: Post-Independence Land Reform and Resettlement in Zimbabwe. 2 Harare and Madison: Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, and Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://www.wisc.edu/ltc/zimbabwe/zimbooktoc.html ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the origins and evolutionary history of subtype C HIV-1 in Zimbabwe in a context of regional conflict and migration. DESIGN HIV-1C pol sequence datasets were generated from four sequential cohorts of antenatal women in Harare, Zimbabwe sampled over 15 years (1991-2006). METHODS One hundred and seventy-seven HIV-1C pol sequences were obtained from four successive coh...