Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Social factors affecting the acceptance of breast Cancer screening: a case of women at the Nairobi City Park Market
(University of NairobiFaculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2013)Cancer is the leading cause of death in economically developing countries and breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women in both developed and developing nations. Statistics in Kenya show that about 50 Kenyans ... -
HIV/AIDS and Teachers in Kenya
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Participated in the BBC Radio Discussion on AIDS in Africa. Suggested that AIDS could be filling a cultural vacuum
(University of Nairobi,School of Management Science, 2003) -
Understanding the HIV/STI risks and prevention needs of men who have sex with men in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of NairobiInstitute of African Studies, 2005)Background Improving access to paediatric HIV treatment requires large-scale antiretroviral treatment programmes and medication adapted to infants and children’s needs. The World Health Organisation recommends ... -
Research to understand the STI/HIV risks and sexual health needs of men in Kenya (
(University of NairobiInstitute of African Studies, 2005) -
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 ... -
Experience with breast cancer in a single oncology clinic in Nairobi
(University of NairobiDepartment of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics, 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 ... -
Interactions between malaria and HIV infection—an emerging public health problem?
(Department of Medical Microbiology annexe, University of NairobiMRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, 2002-10)Recent evidence demonstrates interactions between malaria and HIV infection. HIV-infected people are more likely to experience clinical malaria, and acute malaria can up-regulate HIV replication, leading to higher plasma ... -
Global and Local Strategies to Increase Nursing Educational Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Department of African Women's Studies Centre, 2012-08)There is a critical shortage of nurses in the developing world with an average of only 11 nurse per 10,000 population. Efforts to increase the number of nurses are hampered in part because of a lack of facility, material, ... -
Risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection
(Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Kenya., 1995)OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to examine maternal, obstetric, and infant characteristics of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus-1 in Nairobi, Kenya. STUDY DESIGN: Proviral human immunodeficiency virus-1 ... -
Effects of use of latex rubber gloves by dental students at the dental school, faculty of dental sciences
(University of NairobiSchool of Dental Science, 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 ... -
Epidemiology of maxillofacial cancer: a need for enhanced knowledge among communities
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Framework for the promotion and implementation of community malaria control in the context of Roll Back Malaria, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa
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DFID scoping mission report on malaria in Uganda.
(Institute for Development Studies, 2003) -
Malaria In Pregnancy: Changing Service Providers Practices For Better Outcomes(Submitted To The American Journal Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene).
(Institute for Development Studies, 2004) -
The Equity Objective in the Kenyan Health Policy: An Interpretation.
(School of Business, 1998)The main ethical basis for equity concerns in Kenya's health sector is the view that health care is an individual's right. Analysis of policy pronouncements for their equity content reveals four possible implicit interpretations ... -
HLA system and cancer.
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The Urinary Tract and The Kidney in HIV/AIDS
(University of Nairobi,College of Health Sciences,, 2003) -
Assessing the impact of topography on malaria exposure and malaria epidemic sensitivity in the Western Kenya highlands
(College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 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 ...