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Item Awareness and prevalence of sexual violence among female undergraduate university students in Ilorin(Annals of Medical Research, Published by the College of Medicine, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, 2017-12) Uthman, MMB; Alere, F; Rotimi, BF; Ahmed, A; Uthman, OA; Ameen, HA; Omojasola, TP; Aderibigbe, AS; Oloyede, HK; Salaudeen, AG; Musa, OISexual violence is any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act unwanted sexual comments or advances or acts to traffic and otherwise directed against a person's sexuality, using coercion by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim in any setting including but not limited to home and work. The harm caused by sexual violence can last a lifetime and span generations with serious adverse effects on health, education, employment, and on the economic wellbeing of individual families' communities and societies. This study assessed the awareness and prevalence of sexual violence among female students of the University of IIorin. The study was a descriptive cross sectional survey of female students of full time undergraduate female students in the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to recruit 400 participants from the faculties, departments and level of study. Ninety three (23.2%) students have experienced sexual violence of which 80 (86%) had between 1 to 3 episodes. Respondents' friend/fellow students were the commonest perpetrators for sexual advances 31 (33.3), unwanted body contacts 52 (56.0), forced to have sex 20 (56.0). The study recommends that school authorities develop/ reinforce policy statement on sexual harassment in schools and establishment of telephone hotlines for counselling and prompt response for vulnerable students.Item Health manpower development and utilization: Perspectives and experience of Primary Healthcare workers in the North-Central State, Nigeria(Annals of Medical Research, Published by the College of Medicine, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, 2017-12) Uthman, MMB; Uthman, OA; Ahmed, A; Rotimi, BF; Oloyede, HK; Ameen, HA; Omojasola, TP; Oyedele, SO; Salaudeen, AG; Musa, OIManpower otherwise referred to as human resources is cardinal to effective health service delivery. In rendering services of health care to the people, human resource is required to operate the equipment and utilize fund in rendering the services to the people. The quality of manpower is determined by the level of training and motivation of the workers. World-wide, the public health sector has been facing the problems of human resources, particularly in developing countries like Nigeria with high turnover rate of staff, brain-drain to greener pastures, frequent occurrences of strike actions among other challenges. This study assessed the manpower development and utilization in /Iorin West Local Government Area health facilities. The study was descriptive cross sectional by design involving all consenting, consecutive the primary health care workers in florin West Local Government Area of Kwara State, North-central, Nigeria. Ninety-four percent of the workers were working within their trained specialty. Many (43%), of the respondents have attended a form of training in the last three years. The majority (86%) of the health workers surveyed reported that the courses attended were relevant to their practice while 83% reported that they benefited from the courses they attended. A quarter of the health workers felt that the courses' content did not justify the cost of organizing the training. There is need to conduct regular training need assessment to identify learning gaps among the primary health care workers in the public sector.Item Prevalence of dental caries in public and private primary schools in llorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria(Arch. Clin. Res. Published by the Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, 2018-06) Uthman, MMB; Ajao, KS; Ahmed, A; Uthman, OA; Ameen, HA; Rotimi, BF; Omojasola, TP; Oloyede HK, 2; Salaudeen, AG; Oladiji, F; Musa, OIDental caries is one of the commonest oral diseases in children, severe caries detracts from children's quality of life: they experience pain, discomfort, disfigurement, acute and chronic infections, and sleeping and eating disruption as well as higher risk of hospitalization, high treatment costs and loss of school days with consequently diminished ability to learn. All of which can be prevented by good oral hygiene. The study compared the prevalence of dental caries and practice of oral hygiene among public and private primary schools' pupils in llorin south LGA. Study was a cross sectio'lal analytical study involving Primary School Pupils in both Private and Public Primary Schools (from primary 2-5) within the age of 5-15 in llorin South LGA, Kwara State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to recruit 800 participants, 400 from public primary schools and 400 from private primary schools. Interviewer administered semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data and evaluation technique using DMFT index. Data generated from the study was analyzed using" SPSS version 16. The level of significance was set at P< 0.05 and confidence level at 95%. Prevalence of dental caries was among all respondents was 11.0%; and significantly higher among pupils from public schools compared with private schools (68.2% versus 31.8%). There is urgent need for promotion of health education on oral health to reduce the prevalence of dental caries especially among public schools