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Provision of Services and Care for HIV-Exposed Infants: A Comparison of Maternal and Child Health Clinic and HIV Comprehensive Care Clinic Models
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
Objective:
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV programs require follow-up of HIV-exposed infants (HEI) for infant feeding support, prophylactic medicines, and HIV diagnosis for at least 18 months. Retention ...
A relevance-theoretical analysis of aspects of Mchongoano
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
This article investigates mchongoano, a Kenyan speech event
very similar to what Americans call “playing the dozens”. Much
as sociologists, folklorists, and anthropologists have studied
playing the dozens fewer studies ...
Reference cohesion within the complex sentence in the Swahili of Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
This paper focuses on reference cohesion within a complex sentence in
the day-to-day Kiswahili of Nairobi. The thrust of its argumentation is
that although earlier research inspired by Halliday and Hasan (1976) has
been ...
The role of indigenous languages in kenya: a case for using them as languages of instruction throughout primary school
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
In the situation that currently prevails in Kenya, English is the
prestigious language, the mastery of which is a prerequisite for social
and economic advancement. Kiswahili, for its part, as the national
language of ...
A relevance-theoretical analysis of intercultural misunderstandings in global communication
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
Globalisation can be seen as an evolution which is systematically reconstructing interactive phases among nations by breaking down barriers in the areas of culture, communication and several other fields of endeavour. ...
Teaching Kiswahili pronunciation in secondary schools in Kenya: the necessity to use the right information and descriptive tools
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
This paper focuses on inaccuracies in the way the teaching of Kiswahili
pronunciation is provided for in textbooks recommended for secondary
schools in Kenya. The major inaccuracies consist in the following: some
of the ...