Department of Animal, Wildlife and Grassland Sciences, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. Department of Hematology and Cell Biology, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, University of Pretori...

background: there is a renewed interest in job satisfaction among healthcare workers including nurses in africa and the west african sub-region due to the perception that global shifts in the internal structures and employment practices are inducing changes in the ties that bind employees to their job. therefore, it is necessary to examine various studies in order to establish an empirical base...

the present article is a review of a palaeobiogeographic analysis of jurassic ostracods from east africa, india and madagascar and includes also some general remarks on palaeobiogeography, biodiversity and ostracod ecology.the palaeobiogeographic study shows the high significance of this microfossil group for the reconstruction of palaeogeographic processes, particularly plate tectonic developm...

Psychology in Africa or African Psychology is a million dollar question that remains to be debated by psychologists in Africa and those in diaspora as to the true status of psychotherapy and psychology practice in Africa. What is Psychology in Africa, or should it be African psychology? The focus of this paper is to present a discourse on the need for a paradigm shift in psychotherapy and the p...

1 AIDS Virus Research Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Venda, South Africa. 2 College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa. 3 Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Medical School, Tohoku University, Tohoku, Japan. 4 Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa. 5 Division of Ac...

Background: There is a renewed interest in job satisfaction among healthcare workers including nurses in Africa and the West African sub-region due to the perception that global shifts in the internal structures and employment practices are inducing changes in the ties that bind employees to their job. Therefore, it is necessary to examine various studies in order to establish ...

The editorial “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians” by Eyal et al describes non-physician clinicians’ (NPC) need for mentorship and support from physicians. We emphasise the same need of support for front line generalist primary healthcare providers who carry out complex tasks yet may have an inadequate skill mix.

Shawn Baker*, Christophe Breyne, Kenneth H. Brown*, Ferima Coulibaly-Zerbo, Patrick David, Medoune Diop**, Jan Eijkenaar, Cyprien Fabre, Jose Luis Fernandez, Sonja Y. Hess, Patricia Hoorelbeke, Anna Horner, Robert Johnston, Roland Kupka, Menno Mulder-Sibanda, Banda Ndiaye***, Bakari Seidou, Felicite Tchibindat, Sergio Teixeira and Sara E. Wuehler* *West Africa Regional Nutrition Working Group (...

INTRODUCTION AND METHOD Africa is currently host to a number of international genomics research and biobanking consortia, each with a mandate to advance genomics research and biobanking in Africa. Whilst most of these consortia promise to transform the way international health research is done in Africa, few have articulated exactly how they propose to go about this. In this paper, we report on...

Female genital mutilation in different parts of the African continent isconsidered as one of the vast territory’s social problems. This social problem whichis accounted as an old tradition in different countries of the African continent hashad so many unpleasant physical and mental effects on urban and rural Africanwomen during recent centuries. Throughout recent decades, considerable effortsha...