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Handbook On Paediatric Aids In Africa For Medical Students, Doctors And Primary Care Workers
(University of NairobiDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2011) -
Health and Disease in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 1974) -
Health care seeking behaviour of tuberculosis patients in Obunga slums, Kisumu
(University of NairobiInstitute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, 2007)This study was designed to investigate the health care seeking behaviour of TB patients in Obunga slums in Kisumu district. Field work for the study was conducted in the health care facilities located in Obunga slums and ... -
Health system challenges to integration of mental health delivery in primary care in Kenya- perspectives of primary care health workers
(2013-09-30)Abstract Background Health system weaknesses in Africa are broadly well known, constraining progress on reducing the burden of both communicable and non-communicable disease (Afr Health Monitor, ... -
Health system challenges to integration of mental health delivery in primary care in Kenya- perspectives of primary care health workers.
(University of NairobiSchool of Medicine, 2013-09)BACKGROUND: Health system weaknesses in Africa are broadly well known, constraining progress on reducing the burden of both communicable and non-communicable disease (Afr Health Monitor, Special issue, 2011, 14-24), and ... -
Healthy Heart Africa-Kenya: A 12-Month Prospective Evaluation of Program Impact on Health Care Providers' Knowledge and Treatment of Hypertension.
(2019-03-14)Given the rising burden of hypertension in Africa, the Healthy Heart Africa program was developed to improve access to quality hypertension care in the primary care setting. The Healthy Heart Africa program provides a ... -
Histology of specimens taken by prostatectomy and needle biopsy.
(Department of Surgery, University of Nairobi, 2007-08)OBJECTIVES: To determine the histology of the prostate in prostatectomy done for benign prostatic hypertrology (BPH), and prostate needle biopsy done for raised prostatic specific antigen (PSA). DESIGN: A ... -
The history of the formation of the Pan African paediatric surgical Association (PAPSA).
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Political change in the 1990s in Southern Africa influenced the long awaited formation of a children's surgical association in Africa. Here, within is the historical account of the formation of the Pan African Association ... -
HIV prevention and street-based male sex workers: an evaluation of brief interventions.
(Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi, 2006)This study shows that brief interventions to reduce HIV risk were acceptable to male sex workers (MSWs) and are efficacious for reducing unprotected anal sex during paid sexual encounters. These methods should be developed ... -
HIV/AIDS and STI Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Behaviour Baseline Assessment: Eastern Province, Kenya
(University of NairobiInstitute of African Studies, 2008) -
HIV/AIDS and Debt Crises: Threat to human survival in Sub‐Saharan Africa*
(Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2003)Whether originating from the African primates in the Central African forest, or from polio vaccine trials by some western scientists, there is no doubt that HIV/AIDS poses the greatest single challenge to the marginalized ... -
HIV/AIDS and Teachers in Kenya
(Department of population studies, 2006) -
HIV/AIDS in Kenya – An update. AIDS Vaccines
(University of NairobiSchool of Medicine, 2004) -
HIV/AIDS spread and possible impacts in Kenyan universities
(1993)Presented at an International Experts' Seminar on the Impact of HIV / AIDS on Education, Paris, France, December 8-10, 1993. 10 p. Abstract: This paper highlights the spread of HIV/AIDS and its possible impacts in ... -
HLA system and cancer.
(University of Nairobi,College of Health Sciences,, 2013) -
Homozygous Beta+-thalassemia In A Dutch Teenager: Haematological, Clinical, And Genetic Observations. A Case Report.
(University of NairobiSchool of medicine, 1988-04) -
How do novel molecular genetic markers influence treatment decisions in acute myeloid leukemia?
(College of Biological and Physical Sciences ,Department of physics, 2012)Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common acute leukemia diagnosed in adults, and the majority of patients with AML die from relapsed disease. Although many studies over the past 4 decades have identified disease ... -
Hypertension as a Risk Factor of Hearing Loss in Patients Attending the Hypertensive Clinic at the Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Background: Hearing loss is the most frequent sensory deficit in the human population with World Health organization estimating 360 million people in the world to have disabling hearing loss of which 328 million (91%) are ... -
Hypertensive retinopathy. A prospective hospital study of 100 hypertensive Kenyan Africans
(College of health science,University of Nairobi, 1974)