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Condom use during a community intervention trial in Kenya
(2001)
We conducted a cluster-randomized community intervention trial at Kenyan agricultural sites to measure the impact of female condom introduction on sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevalence. We present male and female ...
Microbial Profile and Antimicrobial .Susceptibility of Isolates from dogs with Otitis Externa in Kenya
(2005)
Exudates from 78 dogs with clinical signs of otitis externa in the period 199 I to 2000 were submitted for culture and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. The microbial isolates recovered were Staphylococcus aureus, 40/78 ...
Courting genocide: Populism, ethno-nationalism and the informalisation of violence in Kenya's 2008 post-election crisis
(2009)
Kenya was already on the precipice long before the disputed 27 December 2007 election, which sparked the cataclysmic post-election violence that brought one of Africa's most promising democracies to the brink of state ...
Development of and Policy on the Range and Pastoral Industry with Special Reference to Kenya
(2003)
“Rangeland” or simply “range” is, by
definition, “inferior” land by reason of physical
and socio-economic limitations such as low
rainfall, high temperatures, poor soils, and long
distances from market outlets and ...
A Simple Method for Sampling Indoor-Resting Malaria Mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Africa
(Entomological Society of America, 2006)
Sampling indoor resting African malaria vectors is traditionally done by hand catches
with oral or mechanical aspirators and pyrethrum spray catches (PSCs). In this study, we designed
and brießy evaluated an inexpensive ...
Common Range, Different Tribes: Explaining Resource Use, Management and Productivity among the Akamba, Orma and Somali in the former Eastern Statelands of Kenya
(2004)
This paper describes the major livelihood activities of three ethnic communities who use in common
the former Kenyan Eastern Statelands. It also looks at how the livelihoods and the range could be improved while
maintaining ...
The female condom and STDs: design of a community intervention trial
(ScienceDirect, 2000)
OBJECTIVES: The main purpose of this study is to compare sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence in cohorts of women with and without access to female condoms.
METHODS: Six matched pairs of communities were ...
The comparative antigenic characterization of Newcastle disease virus strains isolated in Kenya and Kazakhstan
(2001-01)
Twenty six Newcastle disease viruses — 12 reference strains and 14 strains isolated in Kenya and Kazakhstan — were characterized by means of a large panel of 38 monoclonal antibodies (MAB) directed against all the three ...
Inter-lake movements of the Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor and their conservation in the saline lakes of Kenya
(2000)
The Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor is the only algivore in the saline lakes of Kenya occurring in spectacular assemblages that form the tourism base. The flamingos show unpredictable, spontaneous, “nomadic” movements ...