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Integrated community-directed intervention for schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths in western Kenya - a pilot study.
(University of NairobiSchool of Public Health, 2012-08)BACKGROUND: Schistosome and soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are recognized as major global public health problems, causing severe and subtle morbidity, including significant educational and nutritional effects ... -
Integrated oral health into primary health care in Kenya
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Integrating Mental Health Management into Empowerment Group Sessions for Out-of-School Adolescents in Kenyan Informal Settlements: A Process Paper
(University of Nairobi, 2023)This article presents processes for developing contextualized training procedures to better appreciate partnership, capacity-building experiences, and specific implementation challenges and opportunities for mental and ... -
Integrating Oral Health Into Primary Health Care: a Systematic Review of Oral Health Training in Sub-saharan Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Background: Globally, oral health training has shown positive influence on knowledge, competency and practices for both oral and non-oral health-care workers towards integration of oral health into primary health care ... -
Integrating Oral Health Within Kenyan HIV Research & Policy Structure: Stakeholder Analysis
(University of Nairobi, 2024)Background: Kenya has a remarkably high burden of oral diseases, especially in vulnerable communities like persons with HIV (PWH). In the last few decades, the National AIDS & STI Control Programme has efficiently and ... -
Integrating to achieve Modern Psychiatry
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Integration of cervical screening in family planning clinics.
(University of Nairobi.College of Health Sciences, 2003-04)OBJECTIVES: To assess the suitability of cervical cancer screening in family planning (FP) clinics and the relevance for women's health. METHODS: A survey was done on clients visiting the clinics of the Family Planning ... -
Integration of family planning services into HIV care and treatment in Kenya: a cluster-randomized trial.
(Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, KenyaDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USACenter for AIDS Prevention, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA., 2013)OBJECTIVE: To determine whether integrating family planning services into HIV care is associated with increased use of more effective contraceptive methods (sterilization, intrauterine device, implant, injectable or ... -
Integration of HBV-DNA may not be a prerequisite for the maintenance of the state of malignant transformation. An analysis of 110 liver biopsies
(University of NairobiSchool of medicine, 1986)Hundred and ten liver biopsy specimens from various parts of the world were examined for episomal and integrated HBV-DNA sequences. In 54 patients with HBsAg chronic liver disease episomal HBV-DNA was found in 83% of ... -
Integration of HIV Care with Primary Health Care Services: Effect on Patient Satisfaction and Stigma in Rural Kenya
(Family AIDS Care and Education Services, Kisumu, KenyaKenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, US, 2013)HIV departments within Kenyan health facilities are usually better staffed and equipped than departments offering non-HIV services. Integration of HIV services into primary care may address this issue of skewed resource ... -
Integration of ICT into the management of access to treatment and monitoring of ART in rural Kenya
(Department of Medicine. College of Health Sciences. University of Nairobi, 2005)The study systematically quantified media content on indicators such as independence, accuracy, fairness, diversity of opinion and open access to media institutions. The study gave the media a clean bill of health on ... -
Integration of mental health into primary care and community health working in Kenya: context, rationale, coverage and sustainability
(University of Nairobi, 2010)Integration of mental health into primary care is essential to meet population needs yet faces many challenges if such projects are to achieve impact and be sustainable in low income countries alongside other competing ... -
Integration of mental health into primary care in Kenya
(2010)Integration of mental health into primary care is essential in Kenya, where there are only 75 psychiatrists for 38 million population, of whom 21 are in the universities and 28 in private practice. A partnership between ... -
Integration of prevention and control measures for female genital schistosomiasis, HIV and cervical cancer
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Female genital schistosomiasis as a result of chronic infection with Schistosoma haematobium (commonly known as bilharzia) continues to be largely ignored by national and global health policy-makers. International attention ... -
Integration of STD services. How to reach and involve men and women
(Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1995)In Kenya, a sexually transmitted disease (STD) program implemented in 10 medical centers in Nairobi allows nurses to diagnose syphilis based on symptoms, have blood tests conducted to confirm syphilis, prescribe treatment, ... -
Integration of Traditional Birth Attendants Into Mental Healthcare: A Multistakeholder Qualitative Study Exploration
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Background: A significant number of people with common mental disorders are undiagnosed or undetected at primary healthcare facilities. The experience of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in reassuring perinatal mothers ... -
An Integrative Bioinformatic Approach For Studying Escape Mutations In Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Gag In The Pumwani Sex Worker Cohort.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Medical Microbiology, 2008-02)Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is able to evade the host cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response through a variety of escape avenues. Epitopes that are presented to CTLs are first processed in the presenting ... -
Integrin α4β7 expression on peripheral blood CD4+ T cells predicts HIV acquisition and disease progression outcomes.
(University of Nairobi, 2018)The gastrointestinal (GI) mucosa is central to HIV pathogenesis, and the integrin α4β7 promotes the homing of immune cells to this site, including those that serve as viral targets. Data from simian immunodeficiency virus ... -
Intense Simulation-Based Surgical Education for Manual Small-Incision Cataract Surgery: The Ophthalmic Learning and Improvement Initiative in Cataract Surgery Randomized Clinical Trial in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Importance: Cataracts account for 40% of cases of blindness globally, with surgery the only treatment. Objective: To determine whether adding simulation-based cataract surgical training to conventional training results ...