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Managing Food Security Implications of Food Price Shocks in Africa
(2009)
Until the food price alarm went off, discussions on how to reduce hunger and malnutrition in Africa took place in an environment of declining food prices with estimates indicating that real food prices declined by about ...
Exit the State: Decentralization and the Need for Local Social, Political, and Economic Considerations in Water Resource Allocation in Madagascar and Kenya1
(2008)
This paper focuses on the iconoclasticism of water as a plentiful resource and the near universalization of decentralizing institutions to manage it. The authors explore two agro‐pastoral regions — Ambovombe District ...
Does prospective monitoring improve cataract surgery outcomes in Africa?
(2007-06)
Aims: To determine if prospective monitoring influences cataract surgical outcomes in east Africa.
Methods: A prospective observational study of all routine extracapsular cataract extractions with posterior
chamber lens ...
Population pharmacokinetics of a single daily intramuscular dose of gentamicin in children with severe malnutrition
(2007)
The World Health Organization recommends that all children admitted with severe malnutrition should routinely receive parenteral ampicillin and gentamicin; despite this, mortality remains high. Since this population group ...
Unobserved heterogeneity and the relation between earnings and firm size: evidence from two developing countries
(Elsevier, 2005)
Large firms in Ghana and Kenya pay much higher wages than small ones. We use panel data to show this is not the result of employing high-ability individuals. The size effect remains substantial with controls for individual ...
Integrating life cycle approaches to African national development policies: considering the institutional dimension of industrial ecology
(2004)
This paper considers developments in the area of industrial ecology applications and public policy, and the need to facilitate the proliferation of life cycle approaches in Africa through national development policies. It ...
Are we getting there? Evidence of decentralized forest management from the Tanzanian Miombo woodlands
(University of Nairobi,, 2008)
Based on a village study in Tanzania, the effects of decentralized forest management on forest conservation, rural livelihoods and good governance are evaluated. Tree growth is estimated to exceed harvest, and forest ...
The effect of rapid HIV-1 testing on uptake of perinatal HIV-1 interventions: a randomized clinical trial
(2003)
Objective
We examined whether HIV-1 testing using a rapid assay increases the proportion of pregnant women obtaining HIV-1 results and the uptake of perinatal HIV-1 interventions.
Methods
Pregnant women attending ...
Trends in HIV -1 Incidence in a Cohort of Prostitutes in Kenya: Implications for HIV -1 Vaccine Efficacy Trials
(2000)
Background: Accurate predictions of HIV-I incidence in potential study populations are essential for designing HIV-I vaccine efficacy trials. Lillie information is available on the estimated incidence of HIV-I in such ...