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Safety and Adherence to Intermittent Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV-1 in African Men Who Have Sex with Men and Female Sex Workers
(4/12/2012)
Background: Little is known about safety of and adherence to intermittent HIV PrEP regimens, which may be more feasible
than daily dosing in some settings. We present safety and adherence data from the first trial of an ...
A spontaneous massive pleural effusion
(2012)
A 62-year-old male presented with a progressing 3-week history of respiratory distress, tachypnoea, right-sided chest stony dullness, and mediastinal shift to the left. He had no clinical, laboratory, or radiological ...
Sternal foramina and variant xiphoid morphology in a Kenyan population
(2012)
Sternal foramina may pose a great hazard during sternal puncture, due to inadvertent cardiac or great vessel injury. They can also be misinterpreted as osteolytic lesions in cross-sectional imaging of the sternum. On the ...
Unusual formation of the median nerve associated with the third head of biceps brachii
(2012)
Unilateral variations in the formation of the median nerve, with the presence
of the third head of the biceps brachii entrapping the nerve are very rare.
These variations were observed on the right side, of a 30-year-old ...
Access to health care: the role of a community based health insurance in Kenya.
(2012)
Out-of-pocket payments create financial barriers to health care access. There is an increasing interest in the role of community based health insurance schemes in improving equity and access of the poor to essential health ...
Referencing orbital measures for surgical and cosmetic procedures
(2012)
Orbital morphometry is an important consideration during surgical procedures such as reconstruction of the face and cranium. These are done to restore lost functional capacity or to improve cosmetic appearance. Periorbital ...
Evaluation of the antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of extracts of Mondia whytei roots
(Galati University Press, 2012)
Extracts of Mondia whytei (M. whytei) root barks were screened for their
inhibitory effects against Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) (ATCC 25923),
Escherichia coli (E. coli) 0157:H7 (PSSCMI 0032), Bacillus subtilis, ...
Hiv-specific Cd8+ T-cell Proliferation Is Prospectively Associated With Delayed Disease Progression.
(University of Nairobi, 2012-03)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-specific CD8(+) T-cell proliferation is consistently correlated with enhanced host HIV immune control, but whether proliferative responses are a cause or consequence of immune protection ...
Increasing access to the MDR-TB surveillance programme through a collaborative model in western Kenya.
(University of Nairobi,, 2012)
OBJECTIVE:
Kenya, like many resource-constrained countries, has a single mycobacterial laboratory, centrally located in Nairobi, with capacity for drug-susceptibility testing (DST) - the gold standard in diagnosing ...
Indigenous Knowledge and folk use of a polyherbal antimalarial by the Bayang Community, South West Region of Cameroon
(2012)
Nefang is a polyherbal preparation constituted of the leavesof six plants and the bark of one of these,used
traditionally for the treatment of malaria by the Bayang community, South West Region of Cameroon. Since ...