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World Health Assembly Resolution on Emergency and Essential Surgery and Anaesthesia adopted
(Univeristy of Nairobi, 2015)
Studies and Works in Mental Health to Inform Practice and Policy in the African Social Cultural Context
(2013)
“There is hope for mental health for all,” this is the message delivered by Prof. David Musyimi Ndetei, during his Doctor of Science defense at the University of Nairobi (UoN).
Titled ‘Studies and Works in Mental Health ...
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of registered nurses on scientific nursing research at the Kenyatta National Hospital
(2006)
Scientific Nursing Research is defined as the systematic process of investigating phenomena
related to nursing with the aim or adding to the nursing body of knov, ledge, to improve practice
and for better health care ...
Social stigma and reintegration of obstetric Fistula survivors in west pokot, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2010)
Obstetric fistula is a medical condition in which a woman develops a hole between the
vagina and rectum or the bladder during delivery. In West Pokot, this condition attracts
social stigma, abandonment, seclusion and ...
Development of Orthopaedics in Kenya
(2007)
It is difficult to say at what point Orthopaedics in
Kenya broke away from general surgery. All over
the world, orthopaedics has developed as an off
shoot of general surgery. There are various forms
of practice of ...
Experience with breast cancer in a single oncology clinic in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
Combinations of anthracyclines and cyclophosphamide ± 5-FU are widely used in treatment of breast cancer (BC) in the adjuvant setting. Addition of taxanes is beneficial. For Her2-positive tumours addition of herceptin may ...
Assessing the impact of topography on malaria exposure and malaria epidemic sensitivity in the Western Kenya highlands
(2010)
Malaria in the Western Kenya Highland is characterized by unstable and high transmission variability which results into epidemics during periods of suitable climatic conditions. The sensitivity of a site to malaria epidemics ...
Effects of use of latex rubber gloves by dental students at the dental school, faculty of dental sciences
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
Introduction: Latex is the material that rubber gloves are made of. The powder inside gloves and even the latex itself may elicit a latex reaction on the handler of the gloves or the patient. Latex reactions have become ...
Epidemiological characteristics of microbiological results on patients with infectious corneal ulcers: a 13-year survey in Paraguay.
(2004)
BACKGROUND:
This is a retrospective, chart-reviewed study of patients diagnosed with infectious corneal ulcers at the Ophthalmology Department of the National University of Asunción in Paraguay. The microbiological culture ...