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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Associated Mental Distress and Suicide Risk: Results From the Zambia Violence Against Children Survey

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2021
Purpose: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a global public health concern. Little research exists on the prevalence and health consequences of ACEs in Zambia.
NaeHyung Lee, Greta M. Massetti, Elizabeth W. Perry, S. Self-Brown   +3 more
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Measles immunity gap among reproductive-age women participating in a simulated HIV vaccine efficacy trial in Zambia

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
Measles is a vaccine-preventable viral disease whose vaccination coverage remains low in Zambia, where the target group for vaccination is children aged 9 to 18 months.
Kalonde Malama, Amanda Tichacek, Hilary Kelly, Rachel Parker, Mubiana Inambao, Tyronza Sharkey, Kristin M. Wall, William Kilembe, Matt A. Price, Pat Fast, Fran Priddy, Susan Allen   +11 more
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Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Zambia

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009
Clinical relevance of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolated from 180 chronically ill patients and 385 healthy controls in Zambia was evaluated to examine the contribution of these isolates to tuberculosis (TB)-like disease. The proportion of NTM-positive sputum samples was significantly higher in the patient group than in controls; 11% and 6 ...
Buijtels, PCAM, van der Sande, MABrivm, CS de, Graaff, S, Parkinson, Verbrugh, HA, Petit, PLC, van Soolingen, Drivm   +6 more
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Room for money or manoeuvre? How green financialization and de-risking shape Zambia’s renewable energy transition

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 2021
SDG-backed green finance efforts have become popular vehicles for private investors to participate in development collaborations. We critically examine two transnational renewable energy projects in Zambia, drawing on the financialization literature and,
Carsten Elsner, Manuel Neumann, F. Müller, Simone Claar   +3 more
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Index and targeted community‐based testing to optimize HIV case finding and ART linkage among men in Zambia

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2020
Current healthcare systems fail to provide adequate HIV services to men. In Zambia, 25% of adult men living with HIV were unaware of their HIV status in 2018, and 12% of those who were unaware of their HIV statu were not receiving antiretroviral therapy (
L. Mwango, K. Stafford, N. Blanco, M. Lavoie, Morley Mujansi, Nasho Nyirongo, Kalima Tembo, Henry Sakala, Julian Chipukuma, Beauty Phiri, Carol Nzangwa, Susan Mwandila, Kennedy Nkwemu, A. Saadani, Annie Mwila, M. Herce, C. Claassen   +16 more
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Christian Nation in Zambia: from Proclamation to Reset [PDF]

Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2021
December 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of Zambia a Christian nation. The leader of the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) party who came to power in 1991, a convinced Christian F.
PROKOPENKO Liubov Yaroslavovna
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First 100 Persons with COVID-19 — Zambia, March 18–April 28, 2020

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
Zambia is a landlocked, lower-middle income country in southern Africa, with a population of 17 million (1). The first known cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Zambia occurred in a married couple who had traveled to France and were subject ...
P. Chipimo, D. Barradas, N. Kayeyi, P. Zulu, Kapina Muzala, M. Mazaba, R. Hamoonga, K. Musonda, M. Monze, N. Kapata, N. Sinyange, Davie Simwaba, Fred Kapaya, L. Mulenga, D. Chanda, W. Malambo, William Ngosa, J. Hines, S. Yingst, S. Agolory, V. Mukonka   +20 more
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“Are They Aware, and Why?” Bayesian Analysis of Predictors of Smallholder Farmers’ Awareness of Climate Change and Its Risks to Agriculture

Agronomy, 2020
While climate change threatens global food security, health, and nutrition outcomes, Africa is more vulnerable because its economies largely depend on rain-fed agriculture.
John N. Ng’ombe, Moses C. Tembo, Blessing Masasi   +2 more
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Adolescent pregnancy and social norms in Zambia

Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2020
Early pregnancy occurs frequently in Zambia and is considered a public health issue. The aim of this study was to improve understanding of how gendered sexual norms make young unmarried girls vulnerable to unintended pregnancies in a specific context. It
J. Svanemyr
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ZAMBIA: PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT IN SECURITY OF LAND TENURE. FROM PILOTING USING TECHNOLOGY TO NATIONAL ROLLOUT

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022
Context and background Zambia has grappled with implementing the land titling from 2017 when it started the piloting of the National Land Titling Programme through the seventh National Development Plan (2017-2021).
Emmanuel Tembo,, Didier Sagashya
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