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    • WHO Expert Committee on specifications for pharmaceutical preparations. 

      Bawazir, SA; Caudron, JM; Dekker, TG; Guerrero Rivas, NM; Hoogmartens, J; Shaohong, J; Miller, JH; Molzon, JA; Treebamroog, M; Biwota, EW; Addae-Mensah, I; Kristensen, HG; Rabouhans, ML; Robert, JL; Singh, S; Tribe, R; Farquharson, GJ; Mills, S; Pelkonen, E; Schumauser, B; Smith, D; Speitzhofer, A; Jakobsen, PS; Daviaud, J; Lodi, A; Kozarewicz, P; Beatrice, MG; Cappuccino, N; Suffolk, B; Hoek, AJ; Anquez-Traxler, C; FitzGerald, M; Vallender, M; Kim, HS; Lee, SJ; Russo, KA; Etienne, CF; Hogerzeil, HV; Rägo, S; Kopp, S; Mendy, C; Balocco, R; Gould, A; Kuwana, R; Mehmandoust, M; Mubangizi, D; Saboartova, J; Streipa, I; Worku, WZ; Yin, H; van Zyl, A; Azatyan, S; Hetzke, J; Maruyama, Y; Ondari, C; Théry, RF; Wood, DJ (University of NairobiSchool of medicine,University of Nairobi, 2010)
      The Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations works towards clear, independent and practical standards and guidelines for the quality assurance of medicines. Standards are developed by the Committee ...

    • WHO International survey of orofacial mutilations and NOMA (Cancrum oris) at Kenyatta National Hospital. 

      Kaimenyi, J T; Guthua, Symon W. (University of NairobiFaculty of medicine, 1993)

    • Who is to blame? 

      Opwora, Antony S.; Laving, Ahmed MR; Nyabola, Lambert O.; Olenja, Joyce M. (2011)
      Background: Kenya, like many developing nations, continues to experience high childhood mortality in spite of the many efforts put in place by governments and international bodies to curb it. This study sought to ...

    • WHO Neuropsychiatric AIDS study, cross-sectional phase I. Study design and psychiatric findings. 

      Maj, M; Janssen, R; Starace, F; Zaudig, M; Satz, P; Sughondhabirom, B; Luabeya, MA; Riedel, R; Ndetei, David M.; Calil, HM; et al. (University of NairobiCollege of Health Science, 1994-01)
      BACKGROUND: Most available studies on the psychiatric, neuropsychological, and neurological complications of HIV-1 infection and AIDS have been conducted in Western countries, on samples of well-educated, mostly white, ...

    • WHO Neuropsychiatric AIDS study, cross-sectional phase II. Neuropsychological and neurological findings. 

      Maj, M; Satz, P; Janssen, R; Zaudig, M; Starace, F; D'Elia, L; Sughondhabirom, B; Mussa, M; Naber, D; Ndetei, David M.; et al. (University of NairobiCollege of Health Science, 1994-01)
      BACKGROUND: The neuropsychological and neurological complications of HIV-1 infection and AIDS were explored within the cross-sectional phase of the WHO Neuropsychiatric AIDS Study. Special attention was devoted to the ...

    • WHO next-generation partograph: revolutionary steps towards individualised labour care. 

      Qureshi, Z; Hofmeyr, G J; Bernitz, S; Bonet, M; Bucagu, M; Dao, B; Downe, S; Galadanci, H; Homer, Cse; Hundley, V; Lavender, T; Levy, B; Lissauer, D; Lumbiganon, P; McConville, F E; Pattinson, R; Souza, J P; et al (University of Nairobi, 2021)
      No abstract available

    • Who wants to be a Surgeon? A survey of medical students at the University of Nairobi, Kenya 

      Mwachaka Philip M.; Mbugua, E.; Saidi H (School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Human Anatomy, University of Nairobi, 2010)
      In Sub Saharan Africa, surgical conditions account for a significant disease burden. Surgical workforce is however inadequate, and thus strategies such as attracting medical students to surgical specialties could avert ...

    • WHO, the Global Fund, and medical malpractice in malaria treatment 

      Watkins, B; Kokwaro, G; Galinski, M; Mutabingwa, TK; Trape, JF (University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2004)

    • Whole genome characterization of human influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses isolated from Kenya during the 2009 pandemic. 

      Gachara, G; Symekher, S; Otieno, M; Magana, J; Opot, B; Bulimo, W (Elsevier, 2016-06)
      An influenza pandemic caused by a novel influenza virus A(H1N1)pdm09 spread worldwide in 2009 and is estimated to have caused between 151,700 and 575,400 deaths globally. While whole genome data on new virus enables a ...

    • Whooping cough in Uganda. 

      Bwibo, NO (Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1971)
      No abstract available

    • Who’s Afraid of Female Sexuality 

      Muthoni; Mathai; Levine, T; Asaah, A. H (University of NairobiDepartment of Pathology, 2009)

    • Why has the dihydrofolate reductase 164 mutation not consistently been found in Africa yet? 

      Marsh, Kevin; Ward, Steve; Winstanley, Peter; Gilbert, Kokwaro; Nduati, Eunice; Ochong, Edwin; Nzila, Alexis (Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice, 2005)
      Resistance to the antifolate sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (SP), the current mass-treatment antimalarial drug, is associated with selection of point mutations in dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthase. Among these ...

    • Why is There Low Morbidity and Mortality of COVID-19 in Africa? 

      Njenga, M Kariuki; Dawa, Jeanette; Nanyingi, Mark; Gachohi, John; Ngere, Isaac; Letko, Michael; Otieno, C F Otieno; Gunn, Bronwyn M; Osoro 1, Eric (University of Nairobi, 2020)
      Three months since the detection of the first COVID-19 case in Africa, almost all countries of the continent continued to report lower morbidity and mortality than the global trend, including Europe and North America. We ...

    • Why medical students choose psychiatry - a 20 country cross-sectional survey. 

      Farooq, K; Lydall, GJ; Malik, A; Ndetei, DM; Bhugra, D (University of Nairobi,, 2014)
      BACKGROUND: Recruitment to psychiatry is insufficient to meet projected mental health service needs world-wide. We report on the career plans of final year medical students from 20 countries, investigating factors ...

    • Why patients go the traditional healers 

      Katz, S. H.; Kimani, Violet N. (Department of Community Health Faculty of Medicine, University of Nairobi, 1982-03)
      Even in cines where western medicine is accessible and available patients consult traditional medical practitioners (waganga), often postponing or dis¬continuing medical treatment to do so (1,2). A large measure of the ...

    • Widow inheritance and HIV prevalence in Bondo District, Kenya: baseline results from a prospective cohort study 

      Agot, KE; Vander Stoep, A; Tracy, M; Obare, BA; Bukusi, EA; Ndinya-Achola JO.; Moses, S; Weiss, NS (Department of Research, Impact Research and Development Organization, Kisumu, KenyaDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of AmericaDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of AmericaCenter for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Community Health Sciences and Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 2010)
      BACKGROUND: Widow Inheritance is a widespread cultural practice in sub-Saharan Africa that has been postulated as contributing to risk of HIV transmission. We present baseline results from a study designed to investigate ...

    • Wild animal bites injuries in the craniomaxillofacial Region 

      Guthua Symon W (University of NairobiFaculty of medicine, 2009)

    • Wilful pathogens provoke a gut feeling in Parkinson's disease 

      Jeswinder, Sian-Hülsmann (University of Nairobi, 2022-06)
      Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurological disorder marked by characteristic poverty and dysfunction in movement. There are many mechanisms and factors which have been postulated to be associated with the ...

    • Willingness of Kenyan HIV-1 serodiscordant couples to use antiretroviral-based HIV-1 prevention strategies. 

      Heffron, R; Ngure, K; Mugo, N; Celum, C; Kurth, A; Curran, K; Baeten, JM (Epidemiology, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Box 359927, Seattle, WA 98104, USA, 2012)
      INTRODUCTION: Antiretroviral treatment (ART) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) have demonstrated efficacy as new human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) prevention approaches for HIV-1 serodiscordant couples. METHOD ...

    • Willingness to participate in future HIV vaccine trials among men who have sex with men and female sex workers living in Nairobi, Kenya 

      Mutisya, Elizabeth M; Mutua, Gaudensia; Nyasani, Delvin; Nduta, Hannah; Kabuti, Rhoda W.; Muturi-Kioi, Vincent; Omosa-Manyonyi, Gloria; Matt A., Lindan; Abasa, Andrew; Mati, Price A; Kimani, Joshua; Anzala, Aggrey Omu (University of Nairobi, 2020)
      Objective To evaluate factors associated with willingness to participate in future HIV vaccine trials among men who have sex with men and female sex workers living in Nairobi, Kenya. Background Working with ‘key ...