background: wound infections are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. etiologic agents of wound infections vary with geographical locations. this study was conducted to assess the prevalence of wound infections, the effect of age and gender on the prevalence as well as the etiologic agents and their susceptibility to antibacterial agents. methods: wound swabs collected from 2061 p...

in nigeria, most farming activities rely on family labor. however, rural-urban drift and the movement of young people away from agriculture are making labor increasingly pause. thus, labor has become a major constraint to expanding the scope of production by small-scale resource poor farmers. this paper provides an empirical relationship between labor and poverty using data from households. thr...

Background Despite the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) since 2005 in Nigeria, the level of health insurance coverage remains low. The study aims to examine the predictors of enrolment in the NHIS among women of reproductive age in Nigeria.   Methods Secondary data from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) were utilized to ex...

The present study aimed to investigate chemical formulations of water samples collected from area extended between Ras Al–Halal and El Haniea, Libya. geographic location the Mediterranean governs temperature salinity. hot climate eastern basin raises temperature, causing increased evaporation high salinities. included visiting sites (8 stations on coast Libya) during winter summer seasons 2019....

a bstract background: one of the reported obstacles to the achievement of universal access to human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) prevention, treatment, care, and support programs includes stigma and discrimination from health workers, particularly nurses. since nursing students would become future practising nurses and are most likely exposed to caring for people living with hiv/aids (pl wha) d...

An attempt has been made in this study to examine the relationship between entrepreneurship financing from the perspective of agricultural small and medium scale enterprises and nation building in Nigeria from 1990 to 2017. Data were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin with the application of Autoregressive Distributed Lagged and Bounds test to address the objective ...