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Investigating treatment response of patients with confirmed drug-resistant tuberculosis in an hiv-1-endemic population in western Kenya
(BMJ, 2019)In 2015, 10.4 million people worldwide had tuberculosis (TB) and 1.4 million deaths occurred, 400 000 of whom were HIV-positive. Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 81% of these cases. In western Kenya, current data on the ... -
Iron and protein content of priority African indigenous vegetables in the Lake Victoria Basin
(David Publishing Company, Inc., 2010-08-01)African indigenous vegetables have many nutritional and health benefits that have not been well researched and fully exploited. The objective of this study was to determine iron and protein contents of seven priority ... -
Iron content of the formulated East African indigenous vegetable recipes
(Academic Journals, 2009-12-31)Nutritional iron deficiency is the common cause of anaemia in developing world. However, Africa is endowed with African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) rich in micronutrients. Surveys within East Africa relate low AIV consumption ... -
Is development aid to strengthen health systems during protracted conflict a useful investment? The case of South Sudan, 2011–2015
(BMJ Specialist Journals, 2020)Introduction Is achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 (building peaceful societies) a precondition for achieving SDG 3 (health and well-being in all societies, including conflict-affected countries)? Do ... -
Is development aid to strengthen health systems during protracted conflict a useful investment? The case of South Sudan, 2011–2015
(BMJ Specialist Journals, 2020)Is achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 (building peaceful societies) a precondition for achieving SDG 3 (health and well-being in all societies, including conflict-affected countries)? Do health system ... -
Isolation and characterization of actinobacteria with potential for control of fusarium spp and colletotrichum kahawae
(Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, 2007)Smallholder subsistence farming is important in the production of food crops for basic livelihoods and income generation in rural areas. However, yields have remained low due to high disease, weed and pest incidences. ... -
Isolation and characterization of Streptomyces species with antifungal activity from selected national parks in Kenya
(African Journal of Microbiology Research, 2010)Microorganisms and their natural products are potentially important for the biological control of crop diseases without detrimental effects to the environment. In this study, acetonitrile-methanol extracts of 361 ... -
Kenya: road-traffic accidents
(Elsevier, 1997)RTAs exert a huge burden on the country's economy in terms of vehicle repairs, the treatment of injuries, and compensation claims. The annual economic costs are estimated to have risen from an equivalent of 1.6% of gross ... -
Knowledge and behaviour as determinants of anti-malarial drug use in a peri-urban population from malaria holoendemic region of western Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2011-04-20)The appropriate use of anti-malarial drugs determines therapeutic efficacy and the emergence and spread of drug-resistant malaria. Strategies for improving drug compliance require accurate information about current ... -
Knowledge and perceptions about indoor residual spray for malaria prevention in Mumberes division, Nandi County in Central province of Kenya
(African journals online, 2017)Malaria control and intervention tools usage and coverage in community depend on community acceptability and compliance. Indoor residual spray (IRS) and long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) are the preferred and ... -
Knowledge, attitude and practice towards zoonoses among public health workers in Nyanza province, Kenya
(J Epidemiol Public Health Rev, 2012)We sought to determine the knowledge and attitude of public health workers (PHWs) with respect to emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases and the practice of one health approach in the surveillance of zoonoses in the ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of trained traditional birth attendants on HIV/AIDS, Kenya
(Baraton Interdisplinary Research Journal, 2012-06-02)HIV and AIDS is a global pandemic with cases being reported from virtually every country in the world. There is a growing awareness in many African countries that the Trained Traditional Birth Attendants (TTBAs) have a ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and sexual practices of university students for advancing peer HIV education
(AJOL, 2009)Objective: To determine the current HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes and Sexual Practices (KASP) indicators among university students that would facilitate development and implementation of a peer education programme and the ... -
Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practice of Nurses on Surveillance of Adverse Events following Childhood Immunization in Nairobi, Kenya
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)Although vaccines currently approved for routine childhood immunization are safe and effective, frequent adverse events following immunization often cause illnesses and sometimes loss of public trust in immunization ... -
Low Levels of Human Antibodies to Gametocyte-Infected Erythrocytes Contrasts the PfEMP1-Dominant Response to Asexual Stages in P. falciparum Malaria
(Frontier in Immunology, 2018)Vaccines that target Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes have the potential to reduce malaria transmission and are thus attractive targets for malaria control. However, very little is known about human immune responses to ... -
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 ... -
Low sensitivity of the careHPV™ Assay for detection of Oncogenic Human Papillomavirus in cervical samples from HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Kenyan women
(HSPC, 2020)Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection causes cervical cancer (CC), a common malignancy among Kenyan women. New CC screening methods rely on oncogenic HPV (“highrisk”, or HR-HPV) detection, but most have not been evaluated ... -
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 ...