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Transmission intensity and the immunoepidemiology of bancroftian filariasis in East Africa
(2001)
Previous attempts to determine the interactions between filariasis transmission intensity, infection and chronic disease have been limited by a lack of a theoretical framework that allows the explicit examination of ...
HIV/AIDS risk and worry in Northern Kenya
(2009)
Data from a 2003 survey of sexual behaviour (n = 400) conducted in the Ariaal community of Karare, Marsabit District, northern Kenya, were used to delineate patterns of risk and worry about contracting HIV/AIDS. Despite ...
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 ...
Self-deception does not explain high-risk sexual behavior in the face of HIV/AIDS: A test from northern Kenya
(2006)
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, there is resistance to changing sexual behavior despite survey data indicating high levels of knowledge about HIV transmission patterns and high-risk behavior. Previous explanations for this ...
The changing conceptions and focus of health research in East Africa
(2006-06)
Perceptions in health research are a product of the circumstances within the society, where the
research activities are situated. In East Africa there has been a change in conceptualization
over a period of time from an ...
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 ...