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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. ...
Piperaquine pharmacokinetics during intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy
(American Society for Microbiology, 2021)
Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) is a long-acting artemisinin combination treatment that provides effective chemoprevention and has been proposed
as an alternative antimalarial drug for intermittent preventive therapy ...
God Didn’t Make a Mistake in Creating Me”: Intrapersonal Resilience Processes among Gay and Bisexual Male Youth in Kenya
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021)
Gay and bisexual male youth in Kenya experience human rights violations, including
pervasive stigma and discrimination, and these oppressive forces are associated with elevated rates
of mental health concerns. Despite ...
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 ...
Community/ Public Participation Medico – Legal Concepts to Identify Unclaimed or Missing Dead Bodies from Public Mortuaries to Improve Public Health in Western Kenya
(Research Gate, 2021)
Community/Public participation in medico-legal form bench-mark of health determinants and quality
integrated services towards criminal justice support in health. Globally, over 44 million cases of
unclaimed bodies or ...
Causes of preterm and low birth weight neonatal mortality in a rural community in Kenya: evidence from verbal and social autopsy
(BMC Pregnancy and Child Birth, 2021)
Background: Under-fve mortality in Kenya has declined over the past two decades. However, the reduction in the
neonatal mortality rate has remained stagnant. In a country with weak civil registration and vital statistics ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sociocultural Determinants of Alcohol Abuse by Youths in Luanda Sub-county, Vihiga County, Kenya
(ESJ Natural/Life/Medical Sciences, 2021)
The World Health Organization (WHO, 2014) indicates that 3.3
million deaths or 5.9% of all global deaths annually are attributable to alcohol
abuse. The WHO (2014) further indicates that the global burden of disease ...