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Costs and cost-effectiveness of delivering intermittent preventive treatment for malaria through schools in western Kenya
(2008-09-30)
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Awareness of the potential impact of malaria among school-age children has stimulated investigation into malaria interventions that can be delivered ...
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 ...
Integrated mosquito larval source management reduces larval numbers in two highland villages in western Kenya
(2012-05-18)
AbstractBackgroundIn western Kenya, malaria remains one of the major health problems and its control remains an important public health measure. Malaria control is by either use of drugs to treat patients infected with ...
The World Health Organization multicountry survey on maternal and newborn health: study protocol
(2011-10-26)
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Effective interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity in maternal and newborn health already exist. Information about quality and performance of care and the use of critical interventions are ...
Vaginal microbicides for reducing the risk of sexual acquisition of HIV infection in women: systematic review and meta-analysis
(2012-11-06)
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Each year more than two million people are newly infected with HIV worldwide, a majority of them through unprotected vaginal sex. More than half of new infections in ...