Botswana exhibits a medium fertility rate (i.e.4.0-5.0 births per woman). One of the three countries in sub-Sahara Africa (Kenya and Zimbabwe are the other two) reported to be experiencing incipient fertility decline, an indication of the subcontinent's entry into the second phase of the fertility transition after undergoing significant changes in the proximate determinants of fertility over th...

Delayed presentation of children with cancer is a significant barrier to improving the survival from children's cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Botswana, a country of approximately 2 million people in southern Africa, has only 1 pediatric cancer treatment program, based at Princess Marina Hospital (PMH) in the capital of Gaborone. A pediatric cancer recognition training prog...

Three fossils, a cranium of Papio, a cercopithecid frontal bone, and a mandible of juvenile Papio, have been recovered from cave deposits in the !Ncumtsa (Koanaka) Hills of western Ngamiland, Botswana. These specimens are significant because well-preserved crania of Papio are extremely rare in the fossil record outside of South Africa and because this is the first report of fossil primate crani...

Copyright: © 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Introduction: In Botswana, breast cancer, the second most common malignancy amongst women, is often diagnosed late, with 90% of patients presenting at advanced stages at Princess Marina Hospital (PMH) Gaborone, the only referral hospital with an operational oncolog...

Health Informatics (HI) and Information Technology (IT) have enormous potential to improve healthcare quality in countries around the world. A literature review was used conduct a situational analysis of use HI IT Botswana's health sector. According research, there is significant gap available information on status challenges that affect As technology evolves, frequent situation required remedy...

The onset of COVID-19 resulted in the adoption various measures such as lockdowns and alcohol bans. These interventions were new unprecedented way they impacted drinking experiences across contexts. impact other restrictions non-Western contexts remains unknown. Little is known about how strict prohibition drinkers. Using grounded theory methods from an study based Botswana with drinkers ( n = ...

Botswana is a country with one of the fastest urbanizing population in sub-Saharan Africa over 60% its living cities, towns and urban villages. consists several traditional settlements within settlement system, which have years transformed terms size, morphology economic structures. The policy intervention processes resultant physical configuration these testimony to political economy Botswana’...

SUMMARY Recent improvements in seismic coverage allow for an increasingly detailed knowledge of the crustal structure beneath Botswana to be obtained. For first time, shear wave velocity–depth models throughout are obtained from genetic algorithm inversion receiver functions. In this approach, averaging important structural variations is minimized by separating function waveforms into backazimu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the health status among the elderly in a village in Botswana and their pattern of health care utilisation. DESIGN A descriptive study where all persons 60 years and older were invited to participate, including a medical examination, laboratory testing and a questionnaire aiming at gathering sociodemographic data. SETTING Mmankgodi village of Botswana. SUBJECTS 419 pe...

Dermatologists practicing in countries with limited resources are faced with multiple challenges, including medication unavailability/affordability, infrequency of clinics, and illiteracy. We share our experiences providing care in dermatology clinics throughout Botswana. We discuss the challenges we faced and several of the solutions we implemented. Lessons learned are applicable to similar re...