One of the main challenges of accessing health care in Nigeria is payment for service at the point of delivery. Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments being the main method of financing health care, has posed a serious constraint in accessing health care. This study assessed the socio-economic status of households in relation to out-of-pocket payment and how... Continue Reading
Quality laboratory services are essential and integral part of improved health outcome especially for HIV/AIDS patients on ART. We aimed to assess clients‘ satisfaction with laboratory services as an indicator of quality and factors affecting quality of laboratory services from service providers‘ perspective. We conducted a hospital based cross... Continue Reading
Worldwide, an estimated five million women are hospitalized each year for treatment of abortion-related complications, such as hemorrhage and sepsis. Almost all abortion-related deaths occur in developing countries.2These deaths are highest in Africa, where there were an estimated 650 deaths per 100,000 unsafe abortions in 2003, compared with 10 pe... Continue Reading
HIV has remained a major public health problem despite huge financial resources expended by stakeholders at finding cure and mitigating the impact of the disease. With the global estimate of 34 million people living with the virus and 2.5 million new infections, Nigeria ranks second among HIV/AIDS burdened countries with a prevalence of 4.1% and es... Continue Reading
Restaurant industry has been experiencing technology innovation to uphold its service quality for decades. Studies have suggested that the technology adoption would lead to beneficial consequences on operation performance. The current study was conducted to design and implement computerized restaurant menu system, to analyze the requirement for the... Continue Reading
Cancer is a disease defined to be a tissue growth that continues even after cessation of the stimulus that first evoked it. The cancer symbol is synonymous with the animal Crab which has many fingers depicting the multidirectional spread of the disease. Late presentation is the most important factor responsible for high morbidity and mortality due ... Continue Reading
Nomads are an under-served population with little or no access to health care mainly because of their geographical locations which are often hard to reach, their movement from place to place and cultural beliefs. Thousands of children in Nigeria are infected with HIV through their mothers annually. The success of PMTCT of HIV depends on the effecti... Continue Reading
Background: cervical cancer is a spectrum that ranges from dysplasia to invasive cancer. The late stage of the disease result with distant metastasis involving surrounding tissues and deposits in organs like the liver, lungs and bones. Poor public health awareness has contributed to late diagnosis of this disease, therefore there is need to assess ... Continue Reading
The onset of menarche signals the start of women‘s reproductive life and is determined by genetics, race, environmental, nutritional habits, socioeconomic status, and exercise. The present study is primarily aimed at determining the mean menarcheal age of adolescent girls from Hausa and Igbo ethnic groups living in rural and urban regions. The st... Continue Reading
Congenital malformations also known as birth defects are structural or functional abnormalities of prenatal origin which result from defective embryogenesis or an intrinsic defect in the developmental process. The birth prevalence of Congenital anomalies varies from country to country, and from region to region within the same country. The objectiv... Continue Reading
The middle-belt of Nigeria is known for its ethnic diversity and linguistic complexity. Studies on biological variation within the region have been mostly based on anthropometry but with recent advances in anthropological genetics, newer tools now provide greater resolution on human variation. This study examined the efficacy of the mitochondrial D... Continue Reading
Stature is increasingly used as measure of the health and wellness(standard of living and quality) of population This work was done by taking measurements of height and weight of school children 6-11 years (n=1050) and adolescents 12-19 years (n=1440) of Hausa ethnic extraction of both sexesfrom Kano State using Stadiometer and estimation of leg le... Continue Reading
Digit ratio (2D:4D) is a sexually dimorphic trait, with females having a higher 2D:4D than males. This digit ratio has been associated with numerous behavioural traits and health conditions related to sex hormones. Four hundred and twelve secondary school students (209 males and 203 females) aged 12 to 20 years attending secondary schools within En... Continue Reading
Literature on the anatomy of the African Giant rats (AGR) is gradually building; there is paucity of information on the detailed morphometric, histologic analysis of the cerebrum and olfactory bulbs of the AGR. No stereologically study has been done on the olfactory bulb and cerebrum of the AGR. The quantification of cerebral layers and olfactory b... Continue Reading
Trypanosomiasis, a diseases in the Sub-saharan Africa; its neurodegeneration phase of is yet to be understood. This study was designed to investigate the effect of Trypanosoma brucei brucei on spatial memory, histology and expression of calbindin-d28k in hippocampus of wistar rats. Thirty adult (male) Wistar rats were categorized into two groups, c... Continue Reading