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    • Widowhood and HIV/AIDS 

      Nyambedha, Erick; Okuto, Agache; Kioli, Felix (Lambert Academic Publishers, 2015)
      Widowhood is a state unavoidable to all married individuals. Women experience widowhood differently. In Africa, widows face challenges posed by culture, stigma and poverty. Widows living with HIV and AIDS face more ...

    • Wimbo: implications for risk of HIV infection among circumcised fishermen in Western Kenya 

      Nyambedha, Erick O; Ombere, Stephen O; Bukachi, Salome A (Routledge, 2015-10-21)
      Medical male circumcision has been shown to reduce the risk of heterosexual transmission of HIV infection in men by up to 60% in three randomised controlled trials. However, not much anthropological literature exists to ...

    • Women groups: A pathway to rural development in Nyamusi Division, Nyamira County, Kenya 

      Peter Gutwa Oino, Samwel Auya, Cyrillah Luvega (International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, 2014)
      : Despite their fundamental socio-economic responsibilities, rural women still have less access to knowledge, assets, services and participation in decision-making. These inequalities affect their ability to carry out ...