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Too young to take over: - the hidden face of HIV/AIDS : orphans and vulnerable children from a Kenyan perspective
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
Trends in HIV -1 Incidence in a Cohort of Prostitutes in Kenya: Implications for HIV -1 Vaccine Efficacy Trials
(2000)
Background: Accurate predictions of HIV-I incidence in potential study populations are essential for designing HIV-I vaccine efficacy trials. Lillie information is available on the estimated incidence of HIV-I in such ...
Pregnancy rates among female participants in phase I and phase IIA AIDS vaccine clinical trials in Kenya
(2009-09)
Background: Female participants in AIDS candidate vaccine clinical trials must agree to use effective contraception to be enrolled into the studies, and for a specified period after vaccination, since the candidate vaccines’ ...
Hormonal Contraception And Risk Of Hiv-1 Acquisition: Results Of A 10-year Prospective Study.
(University of Nairobi, 2004-03-05)
Evaluation of a low- dose nonoxynol-9 gel for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases: a randomised clinical trial, Sex Transm Dis 2001
(University of Nairobi, 2001)
Objective: To assess the relation between selenium deficiency and vaginal or cervical shedding of HIV-1-infected cells. Design: Cross-sectional study of 318 HIV-1 seropositive women in Mombasa, Kenya. Methods: Vaginal and ...
Lymphocyte Subsets In Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-infected And Uninfected Children In Nairobi.
(University of Nairobi, 2001-05-20)
Background: Reference lymphocyte subset values for African children are lacking. This study documents these values as well as their alterations associated with perinatal and postnatal HIV-1 transmission and with protection ...
The Effect Of Treatment Of Vaginal Infections On Shedding Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1
(University of Nairobi, 2001)
We evaluated the association between the severity of primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) illness and HIV-1 plasma virus load before seroconversion using stored plasma samples obtained from 74 prostitutes ...
No evidence for rapid subtype C spread within an epidemic in which multiple subtypes and intersubtype recombinants circulate
(2005)
There are multiple subtypes of HIV-1 circulating worldwide, but recently, subtype C has become highly prevalent, particularly in certain geographic regions. It is unclear whether the dominance of subtype C or other subtypes ...