Introduction: The rate of stunting in Zimbabwe was recorded as 35% in 2012. Mashonaland Central Province recorded 2168 cases of malnutrition and 964(44%) were from Mazowe District, despite the fact that the district has ...

and Aim: Musculoskeletal conditions contributed 62% of all the cases that presented to Parirenyatwa Hospital’s Physiotherapy Outpatient Department during the year 2010-11. Low back pain contributed 13% of these musculoskeletal ...

Background: Health related quality of life (HRQoL) in HIV patients has become an important indicator of impact of disease and treatment outcomes. Linking CD4 count to HRQoL measures is necessary to determine if HRQoL can ...

The Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals Psychiatric Unit is a government referral hospital for psychiatry for all the provinces in Zimbabwe. The extent of occurrence of aggression was 11.1% for 2012 which is a cause for concern. ...

Introduction Infection is one of the major complications of surgery. Caesarean section is the single most important risk factor for postnatal infections [2]. Prophylactic antibiotics have become a standard of management ...

Introduction Ectopic pregnancy is amongst the top causes of maternal morbidity and mortality in the first trimester of pregnancy. It represents one of the commonest gynaecological surgical emergencies in Zimbabwe and ...

Background: Motivation is one of the key determinants of village health worker performance. Motivation is difficult to assess and can be measured by a series of questions which can be grouped into smaller sets that accurately ...

Introduction: Ophthalmia neonatorum is defined as any conjunctivitis with discharge from the eyes during the first 28 days of life. Ophthalmia neonatorum is preventable. Gonococcal ophthalmia, if untreated, may progress ...

Zimbabwe the population with DM is 4.8%. Cornerstone to the treatment of diabetes mellitus is self-monitoring of blood glucose which enables DM patients to actively participate in their treatment enabling continuous feedback ...