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Responding to the HIV pandemic: the power of an academic medical partnership
(2007)
Partnerships between academic medical center (AMCs) in North America and the developing world are uniquely capable of fulfilling the tripartite needs of care, training, and research required to address health care crises ...
Neonatal nitrition and later outcomes of very low birth weight infants at Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2007-06)
A total of 296 episodes of bacteremia due to Enterobacter occurred in 281 patients with cancer between 1972 and 1986. The majority of these episodes were caused by Enterobacter cloacae. Seventy-four percent of the patients ...
A decrease in albumin in early HIV type 1 infection predicts subsequent disease progression.
(2007)
We investigated the association between albumin levels and HIV-1 disease progression among 78 Kenyan women followed from before infection through a median of 70 months. With HIV-1 acquisition, median albumin decreased from ...
Health financing reform in Kenya - assessing the social health insurance proposal
(2007)
Kenya has had a history of health financing policy changes
since its independence in 1963. Recently, significant preparatory
work was done on a new Social Health Insurance Law that, if
accepted, would lead to universal ...
Effects of organic and mineral sources of nutrients on maize yields in three districts of central Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
Trials were set up in three districts of central Kenya to evaluate organic and mineral sources of nutrients and their
effects on maize yields. The experiments were set up during the long rains 2004 with fifteen different ...
Palpable lingual cysts, a possible indicator of porcine cysticercosis, in Teso District, Western Kenya
(2007)
To estimate the prevalence of palpable lingual cysts in pigs in Western Kenya, a possible indicator of porcine cysticercosis, and to study the potential risk factors associated with this clinical finding.
Methods: During ...
Infectious correlates of HIV-1 shedding in the female upper and lower genital tracts.
(University of Nairobi., 2007-03)
OBJECTIVES:
To simultaneously examine associations of bacterial vaginosis (BV) with potential risk factors in both the female and her male partner.
STUDY DESIGN:
We recruited women 18-45 years of age and their male ...
Immunoepidemiology Of Wuchereria Bancrofti Infection: Parasite Transmission Intensity, Filaria-specific Antibodies, And Host Immunity In Two East African Communities
(University of Nairobi, 2007-12)
We compared the age profiles of infection and specific antibody intensities in two communities with different transmission levels in East Africa to examine the contribution of humoral responses to human immunity to the ...