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Innovative tools and OpenHDS for health and demographic surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya
(2015-09-01)
Abstract
Background
Health in low and middle income countries is on one hand characterized by a high burden associated with preventable communicable diseases and on the other ...
Effects of bed nets and anti-malaria drugs use on childhood mortality in Kenya's malaria endemic and epidemic areas.
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Background: The Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys (KDHS) data collected since 1989 indicate that malaria
prone areas have consistently recorded the highest childhood mortality rates. Malaria control programme
information ...
Impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy on hematological indices among HIV-1 infected children at Kenyatta National Hospital-Kenya: retrospective study.
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
BACKGROUND:
HIV infected children experience a range of hematological complications which show marked improvement within 6 months of initiating anti-retroviral therapy. The Objectives of the study was to describe the ...
Alcohol consumption and hazardous drinking in western Kenya—a household survey in a health and demographic surveillance site
(2015-09-25)
Abstract
Background
Alcohol use and hazardous drinking have been studied in school children and in urban areas of Kenya, but there has been no adult survey of these issues in ...
Parasites and vectors of malaria on Rusinga Island, Western Kenya
(2015-04-28)
Abstract
Background
There is a dearth of information on malaria endemicity in the islands of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. In this study malaria prevalence and Plasmodium ...
Tedium vitae, death wishes, suicidal ideation and attempts in Kenya-prevalence and risk factors
(2015-08-08)
Abstract
Background
There has been no previous household population study of suicidal ideation and attempts in Kenya. Therefore this study aimed to establish the prevalence ...
Sero-epidemiology of Peste des petits ruminants virus infection in Turkana County, Kenya
(2015-04-08)
Abstract
Background
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a contagious viral disease of small ruminants. Serum samples from sheep (n = 431) and goats (n = 538) of all ages were ...
A review of the pattern of AIDS defining, HIV associated neoplasms and premalignant lesions diagnosed from 2000–2011 at Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya
(2015-08-24)
Abstract
Background
Sub-Sahara Africa hosts up to 71 % of all HIV infected people in the world. With this high incidence of Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) comes the burden ...
Cytochrome P450 2B6 genetic variants are associated with plasma nevirapine levels and clinical response in HIV-1 infected Kenyan women: a prospective cohort study
(2015-04-15)
Abstract
Background
Polymorphisms in cytochrome P450 2B6 (CYP2B6) affect the steady state plasma concentration of nevirapine. CYP2B6 516G>T and 983T>C are common in African ...
Parasite accumulation in placenta of non-immune baboons during Plasmodium knowlesi infection
(2015-03-18)
Abstract
Background
Placental malaria (PM) causes adverse pregnancy outcomes in the mother and her foetus. It is difficult to study PM directly in humans due to ethical ...