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Performance of health workers in the management of seriously sick children at a Kenyan tertiary hospital: before and after a training intervention
(2012)
BACKGROUND:
Implementation of WHO case management guidelines for serious common childhood illnesses remains a challenge in hospitals in low-income countries. The impact of locally adapted clinical practice guidelines ...
Emergence of Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolates from Four Clinics in Three Regions of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2012-05)
We have recently reported high levels of fluoroquinolone resistance in a single region of Kenya. In this manuscript, we report high prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance (53.2%) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from ...
Peripheral arterial disease in rheumatoid arthritis patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya
(East African Medical Journal, 2012)
Objective: To determine the magnitude of the rosclerotic arterial disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA) patients at Kenyatta National Hospital.
Design: hospital based cross-sectional study.
Setting: Kenyatta National ...
Property Rights Violations as a Structural Driver of Women's HIV Risks: A Qualitative Study in Nyanza and Western Provinces, Keny
(2012)
While access to and control over assets can minimize women's HIV risk, little is known about the processes through which property rights violations increase the sexual transmission of HIV. The current study focused on two ...
Telavancin in the treatment of invasive Gram-positive infections
(2012)
Telavancin is a newer once-daily lipoglycopeptide with activity against Gram-positive bacteria, including those that are resistant to conventional antibiotics like beta-lactams. The results of recent clinical trials led ...
Psychotic symptoms in Kenya--prevalence, risk factors, and relationship with common mental disorders
(2012)
There have been few epidemiological surveys to establish prevalence and associated risk factors of psychosis in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reports a population-based epidemiological survey in rural Kenya of the prevalence ...
Genital ulcer disease treatment for reducing sexual acquisition of HIV
(2012)
Genital ulcer disease by virtue of disruption of the mucosal surfaces may enhance HIV acquisition. Genital ulcer disease treatment
with resolution of the ulcers may therefore contribute in reducing the sexual acquisition ...
Audit of Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Orthopaedic Surgery in Mulago Hospital
(2012)
Background: Prophylactic antibiotics are entrenched in implant
orthopaedic surgery. We conducted a study to determine the use
of prophylactic antibiotics in clean implant orthopaedic surgery in
Mulago hospital.
Methods: ...
Preservation HIV-1-specific IFNγ+ CD4+ T-cell responses in breakthrough infections after exposure to tenofovir gel in the CAPRISA 004 microbicide trial.
(2012-06)
The Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South
Africa 004 trial demonstrated reduction of sexual HIV-1 acquisition
in women using a vaginal microbicide containing tenofovir. A better
understanding of the consequences ...
Risk factors for kerosene stove explosion burns seen at Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
BACKGROUND:
The kerosene stove is a common cooking appliance in lower and middle income households in Kenya and if it explodes, life threatening thermal burn injuries may be sustained by those using the appliance. Women ...