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Knowledge and use of family planning methods and services in west Yimbo division, Bondo district, western Kenya
(2012)
The Government of Kenya, nongovernmental organizations, and donors are
dedicated to promoting and improving easily accessible, affordable, acceptable, and effective
family planning methods. These efforts have apparently ...
Factors affecting the use of modern prenatal and maternity services in got Agulu sub-location, Western Kenya
(2006)
A main goal of the Kenyan government’s Safe Motherhood Initiative is to increase the number of babies delivered in modern health facilities. Mothers are encouraged to
begin prenatal care visits early in their pregnancy ...
Therapeutic strategies and traditional medical knowledge of the people of Bar Chando sublocation, Bondo District, Kenya
(2001)
The AA. examine the various ways through which the people of Bar Chando sublocation conceptualise, apprehend and experience disease as well as how they organize themselves in attempt to achieve good medical care. Disease ...
The Luo care for widows (Lako) and contemporary challenges
(2012-06)
This paper examines the Luo custom of caring for a ‘widow’ and for the home of a deceased
husband, its rationale and some of its contemporary challenges. The paper maintains that this
custom is still the best alternative ...
Antimicrobial Properties of Some Medicinal Plants of the Luo Community of Kenya
(2014)
Background: The Luo community of Kenya rely mostly on ethno-medicine to manage human ailments. This study was set to survey, record and report the medicinal plant species they use to manage infectious conditions.
Objective ...
Indigenous Snake Bite Remedies of the Luo of Western Kenya
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2005)
Medicinal plants have been overtaken in the treatment of snake
bites by serum therapy and are rarely considered efficacious remedies in biomedicine. Nevertheless, rural inhabitants rely on plant medical material and the ...