This study documented what retail pharmacists and operators of patent medicine shops prescribe for childhood diarrhoeas in Borno State in the northeastern part of Nigeria. Data was generated by a combination of open and confederates survey of 135 pharmacies and patent medicine shops in the...

This study based on interviews with 418 persons treated for various health problems at two retail pharmacies in Maiduguri, Nigeria, sought to know why the population uses the retail pharmacies as outpatient clinics. The most frequent reasons given by the respondents for their use is 'expeditious...

Based on interview of 250 mainly non-literate low income group mothers who use a childcare and antenatal clinic in Maiduguri, the study sought to know the pattern of child-feeding that is emerging in Maiduguri, a rapidly urbanizing centre, and sought to identify factors responsible for the...