Traditional medical practitioners (TMP) are an important part of the health system in Zimbabwe. The objective of this study was to determine, in the study area, their numbers, socio-demographic characteristics and clinical ...

An extensive health survey, with special reference to an epidemiological study of leprosy, amongst the Lovale tribe who live in the upper Zambesi basin has been carried out. A considerable part of their tribal area is in ...

A review of 262 histologically verified spinal cord tumors in Black Zimbabweans who were operated on in Harare Central and Parirenyatwa Hospitals, Harare, Zimbabwe during the period 1st January 1972 to 31st December 1991 ...

In this survey a total of2 783 secondary school students of both sexes, mean age 15,5 years, from randomly selected schools in both rural and urban areas of Zimbabwe were studied using a self report questionnaire. The ...

Haemoglobin S occurs with greatest prevalence in tropical Africa and clinicians have generally associated sickle cell disease with high morbidity and mortality.1-3 The heterozygous frequency in Nigeria is usually about ...

There is very little published information about goitre in Southern Rhodesia (Kelly and Sneddon, 1960; Dent and Strover, 1966), and of that available much is not quantitative and impressions rather than figures have been ...

That liver disease in Africa is a major health problem is well known; less well known and understood is the inter-relation of the various possible etiological factors. Higginson, et al., in a study done on liver biopsies ...

The relative abundance of snake species varies geographically. The commonest venomous snakes in Salisbury are probably the Rhombic Nightadder (Causus rhombeatus) (Fig. 1), Egyptian Cobra (Naja Haje) (Fig. 4) and Boomslang ...

Suicide rates are often used as one index of community mental health and may be of use in planning mental health services.