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Major depressive disorder in a Kenyan youth sample: relationship with parenting behavior and parental psychiatric disorders
(2013)
BACKGROUND:
Studies on mental health problems during childhood and youth development phases have reported that families of children diagnosed with a depressive disorder tend to be dysfunctional. These dysfunctions have ...
Staff attrition among community health workers in home-based care programmes for people living with HIV and AIDS in western Kenya
(2010)
Objectives: This paper examines trends and underlying causes of attrition among volunteer community health workers in home-based care for people living with HIV and AIDS in western Kenya. Methods: Ethnographic data were ...
AN EVALUATION OF HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
(2011)
Objective: To determine Health Related Quality Of Life (HRQOL) profiles of patients with Rheumatoid
Arthritis (RA).
Design: Prospective, cross-sectional study.
Setting: Ambulatory out-patient clinics of Kenyatta National ...
Reasons for ineligibility in phase 1 and 2A HIV vaccine clinical trials at Kenya Aids vaccine initiative (KAVI), Kenya
(2011)
With the persistent challenges towards controlling the HIV epidemic, there is an ongoing need for research into HIV vaccines and drugs. Sub-Saharan African countries--worst affected by the HIV pandemic--have participated ...
Building capacity for cervical cancer screening in outpatient HIV clinics in the Nyanza province of western Kenya
(2011)
Objective
To evaluate outcomes of cervical cancer screening within HIV care and treatment clinics in Kenya.
Methods
Beginning in October 2007, visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA), colposcopy, and loop electrosurgical ...
Genomewide Association Study for Determinants of HIV-1 Acquisition and Viral Set Point in HIV-1 Serodiscordant Couples with Quantified Virus Exposure
(2011)
BACKGROUND:
Host genetic factors may be important determinants of HIV-1 sexual acquisition. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for host genetic variants modifying HIV-1 acquisition and viral control in ...
Evaluation of Herbs as Potential Drugs/Medicines
(2011)
Herbal drugs have been used since ancient times as medicines for the treatment of a wide range of diseases, for both human and livestock. A study conducted in the Lake Victoria Basin Kenya revealed vast knowledge and ...
Human rights issues in the conservation of cultural property in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2011)
Wahome’s paper reviewed The Hague Convention, the United Nations Economic and Social-cultural Organization (UNESCO) Declaration on Safeguarding Culture and the African Convention on Human and People’s Rights. He observed ...
Endovascular Overlapping Stenting for Chronic Left Common Iliac Vein Occlusion in May Turner Syndrome: A Case report:
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
A 30 year old female was referred to the interventi
onal radiology service with a history of
persisting left lower limb swelling with an associa
ted ulcer in the distal medial aspect of
the leg. She had been ...