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Assessing barriers and facilitators of implementing an integrated HIV prevention and property rights program in Western Kenya
(2013)
Despite the recognized need for structural HIV prevention interventions, few scientific programs have integrated women's property and inheritance rights with HIV prevention and treatment. The current study focused on a ...
Texting improves testing: a randomized trial of two-way SMS to increase postpartum prevention of mother-to-child transmission retention and infant HIV testing.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
OBJECTIVE:
Many sub-Saharan African countries report high postpartum loss to follow-up of mother-baby pairs. We aimed to determine whether interactive text messages improved rates of clinic attendance and early infant ...
A randomized trial comparing the diagnostic accuracy of visual inspection with acetic acid to visual inspection with lugol's iodine for cervical cancer screening in HIV-infected women.
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Visual inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) and Visual Inspection with Lugol’s Iodine (VILI) are increasingly recommended in various cervical cancer screening protocols in low-resource settings. Although VIA is more widely ...
Acyclovir and transmission of HIV-1 from persons Infected with HIV-1 and HSV-2
(2010)
Most persons who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)
are also infected with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), which is frequently reactivated
and is associated with increased plasma and genital ...
Text messaging for maternal and infant retention in prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services: A pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
BACKGROUND:
Timely diagnosis of infant HIV infection is essential for antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation. In a randomized controlled trial, we found the Texting Improves Testing (TextIT) intervention (a theory-based ...