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Abstract:The paper examines the causes of neonatal deaths in sub-saharan Africa with a particular focus on Ghana. Various diseases such as diarrhoea, tetanus, preterm, asphyxia, congenital diseases account for Neonatal deaths in sub-Sahara Africa and Ghana in particular. Preterm and asphyxia are known to be major causes of deaths jointly contributing to about 51 percent of the deaths (Lawn, Cousens and Zupan 2005). The cause of death varies between the early and the late neonatal periods, with preterm and birth asphyxia and congenital defects occurring predominantly during the first week of life and infection being the major cause of death afterwards. In this presentation, I seek to outline and discuss these causes with statistical evidence or data to support where possible.
Keywords:causes of neonatal deaths, Sub-Sahara Africa, Preterm, asphyxia.
Title:CAUSES OF NEONATAL MORTALITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: THE CASE OF GHANA
Author:Francis A. Atintono, Stephen atuah
ISSN 2350-1049
International Journal of Recent Research in Interdisciplinary Sciences (IJRRIS)
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Abstract:The government of Kenya is pushing for digital instruction content delivery in primary through full implementation of the Digital Literacy Programme. A trial phase for this programme was conducted in May, 2016. A major problem which arose was that most of the primary schools in Kenya were having various inadequacies to be addressed before full implementation of the Digital Literacy programme. Some of the schools were not having relevant and adequate ICT physical and technical infrastructure. Others were not having adequate teachers who had been adequately trained in ICT. Others were not having security measures to safeguard ICT physical infrastructure from thieves. Lastly the attitude of teachers, learners and the parents was not clear towards supporting the programme implementation. This Study’s major objective therefore was to find out if the public primary schools had relevant and adequate requirements necessary for implementing the Digital Literacy Programme in Waitaluk division, Trans-Nzoia west sub-county, Kenya. The Study was conducted using the descriptive survey research design approach. This research design was considered appropriate because the major aim of the investigation was to study the extent of schools’ preparedness towards implementation of the Digital Literacy Programme and report on the same without influencing the respondents in any way. This research was conducted in Waitaluk division found in Trans-Nzoia west sub-county. Waitaluk division has a total of 17 public primary schools, many pupils and 295 teachers. Therefore, the target population included teachers and pupils drawn from public primary schools from Waitaluk division. Six schools were selected using simple random sampling. From the six schools, teachers sample size was selected using simple random sampling while pupils were selected using purposive sampling to proportionately represent a total of 100 teachers and 12 pupils. Information was collected using questionnaires for the primary teachers and learners in public primary schools. In addition observations were used to collect data for ICT physical infrastructure. The validity of the data collection instruments was assured through co-operation with university academic advisors and by the researcher ensuring that the instruments met all the objectives. The significance of the reliability coefficient was tested using the t-test which gave 0.85 confidence level. Data was organized and analyzed using descriptive statistics through the help of SPSS statistical package (version 16).The findings from the study revealed that most of the primary schools did not have adequate requirements for implementing the Digital Literacy programme. The findings indicated that the teachers, learners and the society at large were much interested in implementing the programme. The findings from the study will benefit the government for purpose of policy making through the ministry of planning and the ministry of education in making a policy plan for effective full implementation of the Digital Literacy Programme. Secondly the KICD will benefit in the development of future digital content to be used for implementation of the Digital Literacy Programme and for ICT integration curriculum development in basic education sector. Other stakeholders who will benefit include teachers, learners, and authors of books among others.

Keywords:ICT Physical Infrastructure, ICT Technical Infrastructure, Security services and Trained ICT Teachers.
Title:AN INVESTIGATION INTO INFRASTRUCTURAL AND TEACHER PREPAREDNESS TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL LITERACY PROGRAMME IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN TRANS-NZOIA WEST SUB-COUNTY, KENYA
Author:Okello, Khayende, Melenia, Dr. Sisungo, Zippora, Dr. Khisa, Mbotela
ISSN 2350-1049
International Journal of Recent Research in Interdisciplinary Sciences (IJRRIS)
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