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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 ...
Performance of the focus herpeselect-2 enzyme immunoassay for the detection of herpes simplex virus type 2 antibodies in seven African countries
(University of Nairobi, 2010)
Objective To compare the performance of the Focus HerpeSelect-2 enzyme immunoassay (EIA) with the gold standard herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2 western blot, among HIV-1-uninfected men and women in east and southern ...
Ensuring quality of services in HIV prevention research settings: findings from a multi-center quality improvement pilot in East Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2010)
Quality improvement (QI) has been widely implemented in health services but has not been widely applied in HIV prevention research. Most prevention research centers have commonly employed traditional approaches (e.g., ...
The challenge of fracture management in osteoporotic bones
(2010)
Objective: To determine the types of fractures encountered in osteoporotic patients and assess the functional outcome of these fractures. Also suggest change of their management and to suggest preventive interventions.
Design: ...
Evaluation of evidence-based episiotomy practice by midwives
(2010)
Research-based practice in nursing and midwifery is regarded as a means of ensuring that quality care is provided by integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available clinical evidence from systematic ...
Are Blind People More Likely to Accept Free cataract Surgery? A Study of Vision-related Quality of Life and Visual Acuity in Kenya
(2010)
Purpose: To determine possible differences in visual acuity, socio-demographic factors and visionrelated Quality of Life (QoL) between people accepting and people refusing sponsored cataract surgery. Methods: Three hundred ...
Congenital afibrogenaemia in a Kenyan child: case report.
(2010-02)
Congenital afibrinogenaemia (CA), is a rare inherited bleeding disorder characterised by complete deficiency of fibrinogen in the plasma. Blood clotting tests are indefinitely prolonged in patients. Themode of inheritance ...
Bone metabolism in healthy ambulatory control pre-menopausal women and in epileptics on anti-convulsant drugs
(2010)
Background: Long term anti-epileptic drug use causes multiple abnormalities in calcium and bone metabolism that have been documented in both institutionalised and ambulatory patients.
Objective: To assess bone metabolism ...
Involvement of Autoimmunity in the Pathogenesis of Aggressive Periodontitis
(2010)
The aim of this study was to investigate the involvement of autoimmune reactions to native and post-translationally modified extracellular matrix components in the pathogenesis of periodontitis. Sera from individuals with ...
Predictors of mortality in HIV-1 infected children on antiretroviral therapy in Kenya:
(2010)
Background: Among children, early mortality following highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) remains high. It is
important to define correlates of mortality in order to improve outcome.
Methods: HIV-1-infected ...