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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Zambia is experiencing high prevalence of childhood cancer. However, very few children access and complete treatment for cancer. This study aimed to document the challenges for health care providers, parents and patients who face a child hood ...
Mulima Walubita +2 more
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Evil and Superstition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Religious Infanticide and Filicide [PDF]
, 2015 A distinct category of women has been identified in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, those who commit extreme forms of violence and murder against their children in order to fulfil their religious obligations or to protect themselves from perceived
Agazue, Chima Damian, Gavin, Helen
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Comprehensive knowledge of HIV prevention among fishing communities of Lake Kyoga, Uganda, 2013
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Compared to the general population in Uganda, fishing communities suffer greater burden of HIV/AIDS. We determined the level of comprehensive knowledge on HIV prevention and its associated factors among fishing communities of Lake Kyoga ...
Leocadia Kwagonza +5 more
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Gendered endings: Narratives of male and female suicides in the South African Lowveld [PDF]
, 2012 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-012-9258-y. Copyright @ Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.Durkheim’s classical theory of suicide rates being a negative ...
Adam Kuper +38 more
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International Annals of Criminology, 2020 Witchcraft-triggered violence is widespread in contemporary African societies. This study establishes the magnitude and identifies the principal features, motivations and socio-cultural contexts of witchcraft-driven mistreatment of children and older ...
E. Owusu
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Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement in an African Insurance Market [PDF]
, 2016 Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations.
Golomski, Casey
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African Journal of Disability, 2019 Background: Parents of children with disabilities have faced difficulties in looking after their children, be it socially, economically and financially. Parents in rural areas are mainly left with a huge burden, as there is a lack of services and support
Brian Tigere, Jabulani C. Makhubele
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Eighteenth-century Quakerism and the rehabilitation of James Nayler, seventeenth-century radical [PDF]
, 2008 Although the first Quakers aligned with history superfluous tradition, detrimental to true appreciation of the inward voice of God, by the early eighteenth century they had produced their first histories as a defence against Anglican allegations of ...
ERIN BELL, Greenwood, Knott, Mullett
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Early identification and management of mental illness in childhood and adolescence helps to avert debilitating mental illness in adulthood but the attention given to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) has until recently been low ...
Angela Akol +3 more
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Religion as Political Instrument: The Case of Japan and South Africa [PDF]
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2015 Religion can be an effective instrument in politics. This has been a phenomenon all over the ages and different political contexts. Politicians utilise religion in order to gain political goals. This paper wants to investigate the reasons why religion is such an effective instrument within politics.
Ogana, Winifred, Ojong, Vivian Besem
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