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Review of policies and frameworks on climate change, agriculture, food and nutrition security in Kenya
(2019-11)
In particular, a Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Strategy (2017–2026) and CSA Implementation Framework (2018-2027) have been developed to promote climate-resilient and low-carbon sustainable agriculture and effectively ...
Challenges in supporting survivors of child sexual abuse in Kenya: a qualitative study of government and non-governmental organizations
(SAGE Publications, 2019-05-03)
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a global, social, and health challenge. Existing literature on post-sexual assault care has focused largely on health providers’ skills and capacity to offer quality clinical, medicolegal, and ...
Forging Associations Across Multiple Spaces: How Somali Kinship Practices Sustain the Existence of the Dadaab Camps in Kenya
(Springer, Cham, 2019)
Scholars increasingly have challenged the idea that camps as social worlds can only be visualized in terms of helplessness, immobility, and isolation. Similarly, this contribution demonstrates that Somali kinship practices ...
I will not go, I cannot go: cultural and social limitations of disaster preparedness in Asia, Africa, and Oceania
(2019)
While much work has been invested in addressing the economic and technical basis of disaster
preparedness, less effort has been directed towards understanding the cultural and social obstacles to and opportunities for ...
Exploring Caregiver-Teen-Communication on Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Adolescents Living With HIV in Gem Sub-County, Western Kenya
(2019)
Globally, adolescent currently the only age group in which AIDS-related deaths are not decreasing, even among those
who have initiated ART. Similarly, low treatment adherence and high treatment failure have also been ...
Socio-demographic Factors of HIV-Positive Adolescents on Second-line ART Regimen and their Influence on Adherence in Rural Western Kenya
(IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS), 2019)
Globally, HIV-related deaths declined by 30% between 2005 and 2012 among children and adults.
However, those among adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) rose by 50%. This has been influenced by late
diagnosis and poor ...
Evaluating community’s knowledge on integrated malaria, Schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminth (STH) infections in a Lake Victoria island, Kenya: A mixed method approach
(AAS, 2019)
: The burden of malaria, schistosomiasis and soil transmitted
helminthes (STH) in the islands of Lake Victoria, Kenya, poses a
considerable public health challenge. Although many studies have been
conducted on the ...