BACKGROUND HIV screening in a labour ward is the last opportunity to initiate an antiretroviral prophylaxis among pregnant women living with HIV to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission. Little is known about the feasibility and acceptability of HIV screening during labour in West Africa. FINDINGS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the labour ward at the Tokoin Teaching Hospital in ...

This study portrays the extent of Domestic Child Labour (DCL) Students and mathematics learning at primary level mathematics. It concentrates on the specific themes of emerging research questions such as situation of learning environment to the DCL students, and influencing factors that affect the learning of DCL students in learning mathematics. In dealing with these research questions, I used...

Promoting child development and welfare delivers human rights and builds sustainable economies through investment in 'cognitive capital'. This analysis looks at conditions that support optimal brain development in childhood and highlights how social protection promotes these conditions and strengthens the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific. Embracing...

Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle ...

In this paper, the allocation of women’s time to housework and child-care is analysed using data from the 1997 Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS). The main aim of this study is to investigate the effect that the level of education has on the allocation of women’s time to non-market labour. It is shown that the usual negative-to-insignificant relationship between the level of education and the all...

The estimated relationship between the number of children and female labour supply is often negative; however, it is not clear whether this arises because of a causal effect of children on labour supply, or whether it is the result of heterogeneous preferences (women who have a preference for home-based activities have more children and a lower preference for market work). The fact that parents...

This article examines one of the most infamous forms of rural labour in nineteenth-century No rfolk: the agricultural gang. Using Parliamentary Papers as its source, the paper argues that some previous interpretations of this form of organized labour have both exaggerated the scale of ganging in the county, and misrepresented the composition of agricultural gangs. It will be shown that, far fro...