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Low reliability of home-based diagnosis of malaria in a rural community in western Kenya
(2011)Home-based management of malaria is promoted as a major strategy for improving prompt delivery of effective malaria treatment in Africa. This study aimed to determine the proportion of children who tested positive for ... -
A machine learning approach to integrating genetic and ecological data in tsetse flies (Glossina pallidipes) for spatially explicit vector control planning. Evolutionary Applications.
(PMC US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2021)Vector control is an effective strategy for reducing vector‐borne disease transmission, but requires knowledge of vector habitat use and dispersal patterns. Our goal was to improve this knowledge for the tsetse species ... -
Malaria in Kakuma refugee camp, Turkana, Kenya: facilitation of Anopheles arabiensis vector populations by installed water distribution and catchment systems
(BioMed Central, 2011)Background: Malaria is a major health concern for displaced persons occupying refugee camps in sub-Saharan Africa, yet there is little information on the incidence of infection and nature of transmission in these ... -
Mapping geographic clusters of new HIV diagnoses to inform granular-level interventions for HIV epidemic control in western Kenya
(BMC Public Health, 2021)As countries make progress towards HIV epidemic control, there is increasing need to identify finer geographic areas to target HIV interventions. We mapped geographic clusters of new HIV diagnoses, and described factors ... -
Maternal Factors Influencing Under-five Mortality in Karemo Sub-county in Siaya County, Kenya
(Research Square, 2023-03)Background Despite the substantial reduction of under-five mortality (U5M) across the world, about 15,000 under-fives (U5s) die daily. Majority occurs in developing countries with Sub-Saharan African countries like Kenya ... -
Measuring Men’s Gender Norm Beliefs Related to Contraception: Development of the Masculine Norms and Family Planning Acceptance Scale
(Springer, 2021)Male partner resistance is identified as a key factor that influences women’s contraceptive use. Examination of the masculine norms that shape men’s resistance to contraception—and how to intervene on these norms—is needed. ... -
Medicinal Properties and Active Constituents of Dracocephalum kotschyi and Its Significance in Iran: A Systematic Review
(Hindawi, 2019)Objectives. Dracocephalum has over 60 species and is found mainly in the temperate regions of Asia and Europe. One of these species, i.e., Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss, is known to have a number of medicinal properties and ... -
Microgeographic Epidemiology of Malaria Parasites in an Irrigated Area of Western Kenya by Deep Amplicon Sequencing
(IDSA, 2021)To improve food security, investments in irrigated agriculture are anticipated to increase throughout Africa. However, the extent to which environmental changes from water resource development will impact malaria epidemiology ... -
MIF (macrophage migration inhibitory factor) promoter polymorphisms and susceptibility to severe malarial anemia
(Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2012)Severe malarial anemia (SMA) resulting from Plasmodium falciparum infection is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. The innate immune mediator macrophage migration inhibitory factor ... -
A Model on the Impact of Treating Typhoid with Anti-malarial: Dynamics of Malaria Concurrent and Co-infection with Typhoid
(2015)International Journal of Mathematical Analysis Vol. 9, 2015, no. 11, 541 - 551 HIKARI Ltd, www.m-hikari.com http://dx.doi.org/10.12988/ijma.2015.412403 … A Model on the Impact of Treating Typhoid with … Department ... -
Modelling the Impact of Misdiagnosis and Treatment on the Dynamics of Malaria Concurrent and Co-infection with Pneumonia
(2013)Incidences of misdiagnosis of diseases with similar symptoms as malaria has increased lately due to the increasing levels of endemicity of these diseases and their co- infection with malaria. In this paper a mathematical ... -
The MOMENTUM study: Putting the ‘Three Delays’ to work to evaluate access to emergency obstetric and neonatal care in a remote island community in Western Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-03-18)Despite worldwide improvements in maternal and infant mortality, mothers and babies in remote, low-resource communities remain disproportionately vulnerable to adverse health outcomes. In these settings, delays in accessing ... -
Morbidity and CD4+ Cell Counts at Initial Presentation of a Cohort of HAART-Naive, HIV Positive Kenyan Patients: Implications to Initiating HAART
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background: Sub-Saharan Africa with under 10% of the worldfs total population accounts for 60-70% of all HIV/AIDS cases. While these patients require HAART to manage the disease, HAART is not universally available. ... -
More Resources for Prevention, Critical Care or Rehabilitation
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2000)Nearly a million people die each year and several millions sustain non-fatal injuries from road traffic accidents (RTAs) worldwide (27). Assuming the world population of 5.5 billion, this implies that approximately 2 out ... -
The MOSORIOT medical record system (MMRS) phase I to phase II implementation: an outpatient computer-based medical record system in rural Kenya
(medlib, 2014-05-28)The authors of this paper describe the second phase of the implementation of the Mosoriot Medical Record System (MMRS) in a remote health care facility on the outskirts of Eldoret, Kenya, located in sub-Saharan Africa. We ... -
The Mosoriot medical record system: design and initial implementation of an outpatient electronic record system in rural Kenya
(Elsevier, 2000)Mosoriot Health Center is a rural primary care facility situated on the outskirts of Eldoret, Kenya in sub-Saharan Africa. The region is characterised by widespread poverty and a very poor technology infrastructure. Many ... -
Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission using Single, Dual and Triple ARV Prophylaxis Regimens and their Correlates in Western Kenya:
(A KeSoBAP Publication, 2016)d: It is estimated that 2.1 million individuals worldwide became newly infected with HIV in 2013, and this included 240,000 children (<15 years). Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and were infected by ... -
Multiple drug resistance of Campylobacter jejuni and Shigella isolated from diarrhoeic children at Kapsabet County referral hospital, Kenya
(Springer, 2021)Diarrhoea is a common cause of mortality and morbidity in children under five years old. In Kenya, it has a 21% case fatality with Enteropathogenic E. coli, Campylobacter jejuni, Shigella spp. and Salmonella spp. accounting ... -
Multiple evolutionary origins of Trypanosoma evansi in Kenya
(Public Library of Science, 2017-09-07)Trypanosoma evansi is the parasite causing surra, a form of trypanosomiasis in camels and other livestock, and a serious economic burden in Kenya and many other parts of the world. Trypanosoma evansi transmission can ... -
MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS RESISTANCE TO ISONIAZID AND RIFAMPICIN IN A HIV-1 ENDEMIC POPULATION IN WESTERN KENYA IN 2014
(BMJ Specialist Journals, 2017-02-01)Background The spread of mono-resistant and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been enhanced by delays in the identification of resistant strains. However, resistance gene patterns and the extent and ...
