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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. ...
Transdisciplinary Research Priorities for Human and Planetary Health in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020)
: Human health and wellbeing and the health of the biosphere are inextricably linked.
The state of Earth’s life-support systems, including freshwater, oceans, land, biodiversity, atmosphere,
and climate, affect human ...
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 ...
Adaptive interventions for optimizing malaria control: an implementation study protocol for a block-cluster randomized, sequential multiple assignment trial
(BMC, 2020)
Background
In the past two decades, the massive scale-up of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) has led to significant reductions in malaria mortality and morbidity. Nonetheless, the ...
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 ...
Serological and molecular evidence of Brucella species in the rapidly growing pig sector in Kenya
(2020)
Abstract
Background: Brucellosis is an emerging yet neglected zoonosis that has been reported in Kenya. Epidemiological
data on brucellosis in ruminants is readily accessible; however, reports on brucellosis in pigs ...
Acceptability, adherence, and clinical outcomes, of amoxicillin dispersible tablets versus oral suspension in treatment of children aged 2–59 Months with pneumonia, Kenya: A cluster randomized controlled trial
(Elsevier, 2020-04-01)
Amoxicillin dispersible tablet (DT) is now recommended by the WHO as a first-line drug for the treatment of pneumonia in children below 5 years. The study aim was to compare acceptability, adherence and clinical outcome ...