Nearly two years since the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which has caused over 5
million deaths, the world continues to be on high COVID-19 alert. The World Health …

Soon after the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV), was first identified in a cluster
of patients with pneumonia (Li et al., 2020), in the Chinese city of Wuhan on 31 December …

Background Rapid and accurate diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children remains
challenging because of difficulties in obtaining sputum samples and the paucibacillary nature …

This paper was associated with a WARFSA funded research project “Potential of rainwater
harvesting in urban Zambia”. The general objective of the research was to investigate the …

Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of growing concern globally and AMR status
in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is undefined due to a lack of real-time data recording, …

Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to detect
the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological, geochronological, …

Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, there is scanty data on the causes of neonatal sepsis
and antimicrobial resistance among common invasive pathogens that might guide policy and …

Background Patients with subclinical tuberculosis, smear-negative tuberculosis, extrapulmonary
tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and asymptomatic tuberculosis are …

Background The unprecedented and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses
in African countries’ health systems. The impact of shifted focus on COVID-19 for the past …

Objectives. This study describes the development of the Zambia Hospital Accreditation
Program from 1997 to 2000. Ten major milestones are presented and discussed, as are …