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In the last few decades, urban development in Lagos Metropolis had posed great challenges resulting from increasing population growth, decay and degradation of inner city, urban sprawl including slums. Data on factors that influence the growth of slums were sourced through variables such as % no of respondents who were non-indigenes, % no of buildings whose age were above 10 years, % no of resp...
Biosafety level-2 laboratory diagnosis of Zaire Ebola virus disease imported from Liberia to Nigeria
INTRODUCTION Global travel is an efficient route of transmission for highly infectious pathogens and increases the chances of such pathogens moving from high disease-endemic areas to new regions. We describe the rapid and safe identification of the first imported case of Ebola virus disease in a traveler to Lagos, Nigeria, using conventional reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-P...
OBJECTIVE The study aimed to assess the awareness and utilization of the Pap smear among HIV positive women in Lagos, Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive cross sectional survey of women attending the anti-retroviral clinic of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria was carried out between 1st September and 30th November 2009 using a pre-tested questi...
Background: Esophageal Atresia and Tracheo-Esophageal Fistula (EA/TEF) occurs sporadically and its etiology is poorly understood. We observed six cases of EA/TEF within three weeks of October 2007 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Nigeria. Aims: To analyze the monthly trends of presentation of EA/TEF at the LUTH from 2002-7, test the hypothesis that the October figures were not ...
Disas ter p reparedness o f a megacity is enhanced by disaster preparedness of its communities. This case study shows how flood preparedness in the high-risk communities of Jakarta can be achieved through a combination of understanding their risks, preparing for disasters, and by improving the early warning of incoming inundation. What’s inside 1 Hazard and socio-economic profile of Jakarta 1 H...
Childbearing Decision Making: A Qualitative Study of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Southwest Nigeria
Using the PEN-3 model, the purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the factors responsible for the childbearing decisions of women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) in Lagos, Nigeria. Sixty WLHA who sought care at a teaching hospital in Lagos were recruited to participate in in-depth interviews. The average age of the participants was 30 years, and 48 participants were receiving antiretro...
In this study Sauvage and co-authors describe the dynamical processes that determine the ozone concentrations in the lower troposphere over Lagos, Nigeria, in the dry and wet season. As case studies two flights were selected from the MOZAIC database, descending at Lagos airport on 30 January 2002 resp. on 14 July 2003. For each case, the observed vertical profiles of ozone and carbon monoxide a...
concentrations of eight metals namely, cr, mn, fe, co, ni, cu, zn and pb were examined in the surface sediments of discharge channels of six industries in lagos using x-ray fluorescence spectrometry.these channels drain into the isolo canal which empties into the lagos lagoon and eventually into the atlantic ocean. this study was conducted to detect any contamination levels within the sediments...
A major concern in modern monetary theory is the construction of tractable models where money is essential. Lagos and Wright (2005) pioneered a class of models that address this concern. The key ingredient of the Lagos–Wright framework is that trade alternates between centralized and decentralized markets. In this paper, unlike the previous literature, we explicitly model the process of exchang...
The first case of HIV in Nigeria was reported in 1986 in a sexually-active 13 years old girl, and soon afterwards, HIV infection was identified among commercial sex workers in Lagos and Enugu. Cases of HIV infection were occasionally reported from various parts of the country and have been growing steadily (1). Now, Nigeria has the largest HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Sahara Africa (2). A syphilis-...
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