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Making Smarter Decisions Faster: Systems Engineering to Improve the Global Public Health Response to HIV.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
PURPOSE OF REVIEW:
This review offers an operational definition of systems engineering (SE) as applied to public health, reviews applications of SE in the field of HIV, and identifies opportunities and challenges of ...
Rhipicephalus microplus cystatin as a potential cross-protective tick vaccine against Rhipicephalus appendiculatus.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, the brown ear tick, is an important disease vector of livestock in eastern, central and southern Africa. Rhipicephalus appendiculatus acaricide resistance requires the search for alternative ...
Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Alters The Vaginal Microbiota And Microenvironment In Women And Increases Susceptibility To Hiv-1 In Humanized Mice
(Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Alters The Vaginal Microbiota And Microenvironment In Women And Increases Susceptibility To Hiv-1 In Humanized Mice, 2019)
The hormonal contraceptive medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) is associated with increased risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), via incompletely understood mechanisms. Increased diversity in the vaginal microbiota ...
Prevalence of Anthracycline Induced Cardiomyopathy amongstCancer Patients Treated at Tertiary Teaching and Refferal Hospital in Nairobi Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
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Background: Cardiovascular complication is a major consequence of cancer treatment. Anthracycline induced cardiomyopathy is a known cause of long term morbidity and mortality among cancer survivors. The burden of this ...
Profiles of patients on warfarin anticoagulation therapy in a leading tertiary referral hospital in Kenya; findings and implications for Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Background: Patients' profiles affect the outcome with warfarin; however, this data, and its implications, is scarce in resource-poor countries such as Kenya without access to pharmacogenetics or regular INR testing.Objectives: ...
The international partner universities of East African health professional programmes: why do they do it and what do they value?
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
BACKGROUND:
Globalization and funding imperatives drive many universities to internationalize through global health programmes. University-based global health researchers, advocates and programmes often stress the ...
Perceptions and Acceptability of Donating and Use of Donated Human Milk and Human Milk Banking in Nairobi, Kenya
(Wiley, 2019-05-16)
Donor Human Milk (DHM) is recomended as the best alternative when use of mothers' own milk is not a feasible option. Kenya has not yet established Human Milk Banks (HMBs) for provision of safe DHM, which is free from any ...
Alkaliphilic Enzymes and Their Application in Novel Leather Processing Technology for Next-Generation Tanneries.
(Springer, 2019-05-03)
Leather manufacturing involves conversion of raw skin and hides into leather (stable material) through series of mechanical and chemical operations. The leather industry has attracted public outcry due to severe environmental ...
HIV-Related Deaths in Nairobi, Kenya: Results From a HIV Mortuary Surveillance Study, 2015.
(Kluwer, 2019-05-01)
BACKGROUND:
Death is an important but often unmeasured endpoint in public health HIV surveillance. We sought to describe HIV among deaths using a novel mortuary-based approach in Nairobi, Kenya.
METHODS:
Cadavers aged ...
Validation of urinary sphingolipid metabolites as biomarker of effect for fumonisins exposure in Kenyan children.
(Francis & Taylor, 2019-06)
Fumonisins (FNs), a group of mycotoxins produced mainly by Fusarium species, are ubiquitous food contaminants, especially for maize. Fumonisin B1 (FB1) caused severe toxicities in farm animals, induced kidney and liver ...