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Health work, female sex workers and HIV/AIDS: global and local dimensions of stigma and deviance as barriers to effective interventions
(2008)
This study validates my own clinical experience that sex workers are sometimes stigmatized. discriminated against and denied services.
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This article is about how stigma can and does interfere with ...
Simulation of Air Pollution-Related Health Impacts and Vulnerability Assessment of Future Climate over Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-02)
Air pollution has intensified strongly since the industrial revolution. Studies clearly show that air quality has deteriorated on both global and regional scales. In parallel evidence that air pollution affect human health ...
Epidemiologic investigation of a cluster of workplace HIV infections in the adult film industry: Los Angeles, California, 2004.
(2007)
The article is a controversial new finding. It provides evidence that a change in strategy is needed. in that preventive and targeted HIV counselling
should be given to adult film makers before and after monthly polymerase ...
Prevalence of tick-borne infections in extensive cattle management system in West Pokot District, Kenya.
(2011)
A study was conducted in West Pokot District, Kenya to obtain baseline data on the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in cattle under extensive management. A total of 197 serum
T. parva, A. marginale, and B. bigemina ...
Confounding Effect of Weather and Outdoor Particulate Matter on Asthma Incidence over Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
Abstract Asthma is a major cause of chronic morbidity and mortality throughout the world. There is evidence that its prevalence has increased considerably over the past 20 years. It is estimated that 300 million individuals ...
Anal Sex, Vaginal Practices, and HIV Incidence in Female Sex Workers in Urban Kenya: Implications for the Development of Intravaginal HIV Prevention Methods
(2011)
Multiple intravaginal HIV prevention methods, including microbicide gels, barriers, and intravaginal rings, are
in clinical development in Africa. Development of intravaginal HIV prevention products requires an understanding
of ...
Factors related to female sex workers' willingness to utilize VCT service: a qualitative study in Jinan city, northern China.
(2009)
While not mentioned in the authors' conclusion, it has been found and it is also my experience that condom education for HIV prevention does not
cause uptake unless it is culturally based {1}. It is important for the ...
Heterogeneity in host HIV susceptibility as a potential contributor to recent HIV prevalence declines in Africa
(2009)
Background
HIV prevalence has recently declined in several African countries, and prior to this the risk of HIV acquisition per unprotected sex contact also declined in Kenyan sex workers. We hypothesized that heterogeneity ...
Epidemiology of Trypanocidal Drug Resistance in the Transmara District of Kenya
(2006)
The sensitivity profile of 10 isolates of Trypanosoma congolense isolated from parasitaemic local Zebu cattle in transmara District, Kenya, to therapeutic doses
of both diminazene aceturate and isometamidium chloride was ...
Opportunities for woman-initiated HIV prevention methods among female sex workers in southern China
(2007)
In my observation and as validated by those in sex industry. a female-controlled method of HIV prevention is needed now. and not in the future.
because power struggles inhibit women from negotiating safer sex practices.
The ...