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Cognitive deficits following exposure to Pneumococcal Meningitis: An Event-Related Potential study
(2012-03-31)
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Pneumococcal meningitis (PM) is a severe and life-threatening disease that is associated with cognitive impairment including learning difficulties, cognitive slowness, short-term memory deficits and ...
Attraction of Anopheles gambiae to odour baits augmented with heat and moisture
(2010-01-06)
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The search for a standard human surrogate in the form of a synthetic mosquito attractant has been the ...
'Relief of oppression': An organizing principle for researchers' obligations to participants in observational studies in the developing world
(2010-06-30)
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A central question in the debate about exploitation in international research is whether investigators and ...
Retraction: Trapping mosquitoes using milk products as odour baits in western Kenya
(2010-08-25)
AbstractThis article, Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:55, has been retracted by the Editor because there are unresolved issues relating to authorship and content.
Improving educational achievement and anaemia among school children: design of a cluster randomised trial of school-based malaria prevention and enhanced literacy instruction in Kenya
(2010-10-07)
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Improving the health of school-aged children can yield substantial benefits for cognitive development and educational achievement. However, there is limited experimental evidence on the benefits of ...
Predictors of mortality in HIV-1 infected children on antiretroviral therapy in Kenya: a prospective cohort
(2010-05-18)
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Among children, early mortality following highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) remains high. It ...
Systems Biology in the Context of Big Data and Networks.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Science is going through two rapidly changing phenomena: one is the increasing capabilities of the computers and software tools from terabytes to petabytes and beyond, and the other is the advancement in high-throughput ...
Industrial air pollution in rural Kenya: community awareness, risk perception and associations between risk variables
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)
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Developing countries have limited air quality management systems due to inadequate legislation and lack of political will, among other challenges. Maintaining a balance between economic development and ...
Factors associated with utilization of community health workers in improving access to malaria treatment among children in Kenya
(2012-07-30)
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The success of community case management in improving access to effective malaria treatment for young children relies on broad utilization of community health workers ...