UoN Digital Health Repository: Recent submissions
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Access Barriers to Formal Health Services: Focus on Sleeping Sickness in Teso District, Western Kenya
(University of NairobiInstitute Of Anthropology, Gender And Afric'"An Studies, 2012)This study was designed to investigate access barriers to formal health services among communities in Teso district, one of the traditionally known human trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness foci ... -
Experience with breast cancer in a single oncology clinic in Nairobi
(University of NairobiDepartment of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics, 2006)Combinations of anthracyclines and cyclophosphamide ± 5-FU are widely used in treatment of breast cancer (BC) in the adjuvant setting. Addition of taxanes is beneficial. For Her2-positive tumours addition of herceptin may ... -
Interactions between malaria and HIV infection—an emerging public health problem?
(Department of Medical Microbiology annexe, University of NairobiMRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, 2002-10)Recent evidence demonstrates interactions between malaria and HIV infection. HIV-infected people are more likely to experience clinical malaria, and acute malaria can up-regulate HIV replication, leading to higher plasma ... -
Global and Local Strategies to Increase Nursing Educational Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Department of African Women's Studies Centre, 2012-08)There is a critical shortage of nurses in the developing world with an average of only 11 nurse per 10,000 population. Efforts to increase the number of nurses are hampered in part because of a lack of facility, material, ... -
Risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection
(Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Kenya., 1995)OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to examine maternal, obstetric, and infant characteristics of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus-1 in Nairobi, Kenya. STUDY DESIGN: Proviral human immunodeficiency virus-1 ... -
Knowledge, attitude and practice of patients on plaque and calculus as causative agents of Periodontal disease.
(University of NairobiSchool of Dental Science, 2008)Epidemiological studies have shown that prevalence extent and severity of gingivitis is strongly associated with levels of plaque. Calculus aids in plaque accumulation and is therefore central on the causation of ... -
Effects of use of latex rubber gloves by dental students at the dental school, faculty of dental sciences
(University of NairobiSchool of Dental Science, 2008)Introduction: Latex is the material that rubber gloves are made of. The powder inside gloves and even the latex itself may elicit a latex reaction on the handler of the gloves or the patient. Latex reactions have become ... -
Epidemiology of maxillofacial cancer: a need for enhanced knowledge among communities
(University of NairobiDepartment of Dental Surgery, University of Nairobi, 1990) -
Framework for the promotion and implementation of community malaria control in the context of Roll Back Malaria, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa
(Institute for Development Studies, 2000) -
DFID scoping mission report on malaria in Uganda.
(Institute for Development Studies, 2003) -
Malaria In Pregnancy: Changing Service Providers Practices For Better Outcomes(Submitted To The American Journal Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene).
(Institute for Development Studies, 2004) -
The Equity Objective in the Kenyan Health Policy: An Interpretation.
(School of Business, 1998)The main ethical basis for equity concerns in Kenya's health sector is the view that health care is an individual's right. Analysis of policy pronouncements for their equity content reveals four possible implicit interpretations ... -
HLA system and cancer.
(University of Nairobi,College of Health Sciences,, 2013) -
The Urinary Tract and The Kidney in HIV/AIDS
(University of Nairobi,College of Health Sciences,, 2003) -
Assessing the impact of topography on malaria exposure and malaria epidemic sensitivity in the Western Kenya highlands
(College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2010)Malaria in the Western Kenya Highland is characterized by unstable and high transmission variability which results into epidemics during periods of suitable climatic conditions. The sensitivity of a site to malaria epidemics ... -
The “Psychiatric Masquerade”: The Mental Health Exception in New Zealand Abortion Law
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Psychology, 2010)Although nearly 99% of abortions in New Zealand are permitted in order to prevent danger or injury to a woman’s mental health (the ‘mental health exception’), the reasons why mental health considerations should effectively ... -
Integrating: Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) into Maternal Child Health Services
(Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2002) -
The Role of People Living with HIV and AIDS in AIDS Education and Awareness. A poster and oral presentation at the 8th International Conference of AIDS in Africa: Morocco, Marakech 12th - 16th December 1993
(Department of Communication Skills, University of Nairobi, 1993) -
Risk Factors for Infection and Disease with the Malaria parasite in Areas of Stable Malaria
(Department of Community Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1996)