The current study reports on ways in which Lilaphalapha page Facebook used language to provide awareness Corona virus pandemic. Virus affected the whole universe different ways. Like rest of world, curb spread virus, Lesotho declared a state emergency and government put health protocols place. To prevent widespread COVID-19, wealth knowledge was provided Indo-European languages many countries. ...

To a certain extent, many curriculum reforms that have been introduced in Lesotho schools unsuccessful. Teachers’ preparedness to implement these has the major factor for failures. Involving teacher education providers preparation of could improve success rate school reforms. Therefore, understanding how educators prepare teachers assist understand why often appear be ill-prepared Accordingly, ...

Professional archaeology in Lesotho was initiated 50 years ago when Pat Carter, working with Patricia Vinnicombe, excavated the site of Moshebi's Shelter Sehlabathebe Basin. His excavations there identified a sequence both Middle and Later Stone Age (LSA) industries, latter falling within last 2200 years. However, never fully published Carter's use 10-cm-thick spits to excavate its deposits rai...

As a result, 14 countries in East and Southern Africa were identified as priority countries and initiated programmes to expand the provision of male circumcision (Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe).2 The Central African Republic was subsequently identified as a high priority country for VMMC pr...

Pandemics leave long-term consequences in their wake. The Covid-19 pandemic reached catastrophic levels Africa, similar to what it did the rest of world. Rural schools developing countries, already reeling from extreme poverty and economic vulnerability, have borne most severe brunt pandemic. In this study, we explore effects on rural Lesotho using data semi-structured online interviews with 10...

INTRODUCTION Lesotho was among the first countries to adopt decentralization of care from hospitals to nurse-led health centres (HCs) to scale up the provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART). We compared outcomes between patients who started ART at HCs and hospitals in two rural catchment areas in Lesotho. METHODS The two catchment areas comprise two hospitals and 12 HCs. Patients ≥16 years ...

BACKGROUND Overwhelming evidence, including three clinical trials, shows that male circumcision (MC) reduces the risk of HIV infection among men. However, data from recent Lesotho Demographic and Health Surveys do not demonstrate MC to be protective against HIV. These contradictory findings could partially be due to inaccurate self-reported MC status used to estimate MC prevalence. This study d...

BACKGROUND HIV-related stigmatisation and discrimination by young children towards their peers have important consequences at the individual level and for our response to the epidemic, yet research on this area is limited. METHODS We used nationally representative data to examine discrimination of HIV-positive children by grade six students (n = 39,664) across nine countries in Southern Afric...

Edkins Teboho, director. Days of Cannibalism: Of Pioneers, Cows and Capital. 2020. 78 minutes. Sesotho, Fujianese, Mandarin, English, with English French subtitles. China Lesotho. Produced by KinoElektron, Day Zero Films, Kepler Film.