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Challenges recruiting women into trials
(2000)
IN KENYA, developing an effective AIDS vaccine is a high priority for women, because they bear the greatest burden of the disease. Yet our site at the University of Nairobi, which
has been involved in four Phase I and ...
Substance Abuse in Outpatients Attending Rural and Urban Health Centres in Kenya
(2000-11)
OBJECTIVES:
To estimate the prevalence and pattern of substance use among patients attending primary health centres in urban and rural areas of Kenya.
DESIGN:
A descriptive cross-sectional prevalence survey.
SETTING:
Urban ...
Profile of the first known tobacco smoker in a rural area of Kenya
(2000-10)
Introduction: Although tobacco smoking worldwide is associated with a wide range of health hazards which are time¬dependent, little information is available regarding the duration of time to which the various Kenyan rural ...
Pattern of anticoagulation control after heart valve surgery at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi
(2000)
Objective: To determine the pattern of anticoagulation control for post heart-valve surgery for patients on follow up at Kenyatta National Hospital(KNH).
Design: A combined prospective and restrospective hospital-based ...
Recurrent pregnancy losses and the role of immunotherapy
(2000)
Post implantation pregnancy losses are psychologically and economically stressful to the childbearing population. The etiology in the vast majority of cases is unknown but is partly thought to result from a break-down of ...
HIV-1-specific cellular immune responses among HIV-1-resistant sex workers
(University of Nairobi, 2000)
The goal of the present study was to determine whether there were HIV-1 specific cellular immune responses among a subgroup of women within a cohort of Nairobi prostitutes (n = 1800) who, despite their intense sexual ...
Clinical comparison of 'single agent' anaesthesia with sevoflurane versus target controlled infusion of propofol.
(2000)
The introduction of total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) and the use of volatile induction/maintenance anaesthesia (VIMA) has led to the rediscovery of 'single agent' anaesthesia, eliminating the transition phase from ...
Presentation and patterns of late recurrence of olfactory groove meningiomas.
(2000)
The objective of this article is to present the recurrence pattern of olfactory groove meningiomas after surgical resection. Four patients, one female and three males, with surgically resected olfactory groove meningiomas ...
Poverty reduction and the HIV / AIDS epidemic in Kenya:What are the core issues
(University of Nairobi, 2000)
The government of Kenya has recently attempted to develop a national budget that gives priority to two pertinent constraints to national development efforts. These are poverty and HIV/AIDS. The poor are those members of ...
Maternal SDF1 3'A polymorphism is associated with increased perinatal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 transmission
(University of Nairobi., 2000-07)
Genetic polymorphisms in chemokine and chemokine receptor genes influence susceptibility to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and disease progression, but little is known regarding the association between ...