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A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya
(2009-12-22)
Abstract
Background
Health, fair financing and responsiveness to the user's needs and expectations are seen as the essential objectives of health systems. Efforts have been made to conceptualise and measure ...
An intervention to improve paediatric and newborn care in Kenyan district hospitals: Understanding the context
(2009-07-23)
Abstract
Background
It is increasingly appreciated that the interpretation of health systems research studies is greatly facilitated ...
The content of African diets is adequate to achieve optimal efficacy with fixed-dose artemether-lumefantrine: a review of the evidence
(2008-11-25)
Abstract
A fixed-dose combination of artemether-lumefantrine (AL, Artemas®) has shown high efficacy, good tolerability and cost-effectiveness in adults and children with uncomplicated malaria caused by Plasmodium ...
Host choice and multiple blood feeding behaviour of malaria vectors and other anophelines in Mwea rice scheme, Kenya
(2008-02-29)
BACKGROUND:
Studies were conducted between April 2004 and February 2006 to determine the blood-feeding pattern of Anopheles mosquitoes in Mwea Kenya.
METHODS:
Samples were collected indoors by pyrethrum spay catch ...
Chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium vivax malaria in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia
(2008-10-29)
Abstract
Background
Plasmodium vivax accounts for about 40% of all malaria infection in Ethiopia. Chloroquine (CQ) is the ...
Characterisation of community acquired non-typhoidal Salmonella from bacteraemia and diarrhoeal infections in children admitted to hospital in Nairobi, Kenya
(2006-12-15)
Abstract
Background
In sub-Saharan Africa community-acquired non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) is a major cause of high morbidity ...
Costs and cost-effectiveness of delivering intermittent preventive treatment for malaria through schools in western Kenya
(2008-09-30)
Abstract
Background
Awareness of the potential impact of malaria among school-age children has stimulated investigation into malaria interventions that can be delivered ...
MalariaSphere: A greenhouse-enclosed simulation of a natural Anopheles gambiae(Diptera: Culicidae) ecosystem in western Kenya
(2002-12-18)
The development and implementation of innovative vector control strategies for malaria control in Africa requires in-depth ecological studies in contained semi-field environments. This particularly applies to the development ...
Host-specific cues cause differential attractiveness of Kenyan men to the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae
(2002-12-06)
Abstract
Background
Many studies have suggested that variability in the attractiveness of humans to host-seeking mosquitoes ...
Trapping of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiaewith odour-baited MM-X traps in semi-field conditions in western Kenya
(2006-05-15)
Abstract
Background
The successful development of odour-baited trapping systems for mosquitoes depends on the identification ...