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Sources of resillience among kenyan youth newly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in the nairobi slum of kibera: Implications for intervetion
(University Of Nairobi, 2009)
Adolescents and young adults who are living with HIV in Kenya comprise a growing percentage of the population. Currently, youth (ages 15-35) represent 38% of the Kenyan population, yet over 60% of new HIV infections occur ...
HIV/AIDS risk and worry in Northern Kenya
(2009)
Data from a 2003 survey of sexual behaviour (n = 400) conducted in the Ariaal community of Karare, Marsabit District, northern Kenya, were used to delineate patterns of risk and worry about contracting HIV/AIDS. Despite ...
Right from primary school, I liked science: understanding health research capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa through Kenyan training experiences.
(2014)
Defining research career paths that enable Africans to address local and global health issues is essential for population health. This study was conducted to better understand how international health training programs ...
Male Circumcision in Siaya and Bondo Districts, Kenya Prospective Cohort Study to Assess Behavioral DisinhibitionFollowing Circumcision
(2007)
Background: Evidence for efficacy of male circumcision as an
HIV prevention measure is increasing, but there is serious concern
that men who are circumcised may subsequently adopt more risky
sexual behaviors.
Methods: ...
Self-deception does not explain high-risk sexual behavior in the face of HIV/AIDS: A test from northern Kenya
(2006)
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, there is resistance to changing sexual behavior despite survey data indicating high levels of knowledge about HIV transmission patterns and high-risk behavior. Previous explanations for this ...
Circumcision preference among women and uncircumcised men prior to scale-up of male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kisumu, Kenya
(2012)
Following the endorsement by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) of male circumcision as an additional strategy to HIV prevention, initiatives to introduce safe, ...
HIV/AIDS and Debt Crises: Threat to human survival in Sub‐Saharan Africa*
(2003)
Whether originating from the African primates in the Central African forest, or from polio vaccine trials by some western scientists, there is no doubt that HIV/AIDS poses the greatest single challenge to the marginalized ...
Ocular fi ndings in children with HIV/AIDS at Mbagathi District Hospital Nairobi, Kenya
(2008-05)
Objective: To establish ocular fi ndings in Kenyan children with HIV/AIDS.
Design: Hospital-based cross sectional study
Setting: Mbagathi District Hospital (Nairobi) MSF-Belgium HIV clinic support
center and paediatric ...
The origins of a research community in the Majengo observational cohort study, Nairobi, Kenya
(2010)
Background
Since the 1980s the Majengo Observational Cohort Study (MOCS) has examined sexually transmitted infections, in particular HIV/AIDS, in a cohort of sex workers in Majengo, an impoverished urban village in ...
Building Community Capacity In HIV/AIDS Response, The Case Of Maanisha Project
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
This case study documents the experiences drawn from AMREF’s Maanisha
programme in Kenya which works with various stakeholders for a co-ordinated
and participatory HIV/AIDS response. The programme applies a twin approach
of ...