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John mwashigadi mukungu -vs- R, criminal appeal no.227 of 2002 [unreported]: a sad commentary on how not to make good law
(University of Nairobi, 2004)the recent decision of the Kenya Court of Appeal delivered in Mombasa on 30th January, 2003, the court found itself confronted with the vexed question of dealing with a conviction in a sexual offence based on ... -
Constitution making and democratization trends in Africa the Kenyan case
(University of Nairobi, 2004)Constitution making and constitutionalism has today assumed a greater prominence than at any time before in the struggle for democracy. The last decade has witnessed an ever- increasing number of constitutional ... -
Adapt or die: the science, politics and economics of climate change
(University of Nairobi, 2004)have stated that part of the vision behind the Kyoto Protocol 1997 portends for developing countries in the 21st century what apartheid bore for South Africa in the zo" Century. The threats to humanity that come with ... -
International law and world order problems, Moi university press Eldoret 1998
(University of Nairobi, 2004)F. X. Njenga is not new in the International Law arena. The capacities he has served in include; a legal advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya for 10 years; the Kenyan representative at ... -
Null Heads and Dp-Internal Concord in Bari
(University of Nairobi, 2004)This paper provides evidence from Bari, an Eastern Nilotic language found in the southern Sudan, that not all that are known as ‘Determiners’ are generated in the D-head of DP as has been advocated by Abney (1987) and ... -
Accountability and Health Care Marketization in Kenya: Why Reform Public Law
(University of Nairobi, 2005)A recent attempt by the Ministry of Health to establish a mandatory social health insurance scheme was vehemently opposed by various inter-est. groups, culminating in the withdrawal of the National Social Health Insurance ... -
An Analysis of Section 4a of the Kenyan Income Tax Act, Hedging and Foreign Exchange Losses and Gains
(University of Nairobi, 2005)The one major drive in government policy in most developing countries, Kenya being no exception, has been to increase foreign direct investment. However, the need to provi,de a suitable tax system as a concomitant to ... -
A "Right to Peace" and Prosecuting the Crime of Aggression
(University of Nairobi, 2005)In discussing the legality or illegality of the use of force and its normative manifestation there is a universal yet inarticulate major premise posited, that at its simplest says, 'there is a right to peace". This right ... -
Private Military Companies: the Challenges They Pose in Contemporary Armed Conflicts
(University of Nairobi, 2005)International Humanitarian Law (IHL) has always sought, and more often than not succeeded, to define the' place of all entities that exist within the radius of armed conflict in order to afford necessary protections to ... -
Unbowed
(University of Nairobi, 2006)Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an ... -
The relationship between HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infection risk and alcohol use during commercial sex episodes: results from the study of female commercial sex workers in the Philippines
(Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi, 2006)The results of this study will be particularly important in designing more responsive interventions for alcohol-related behaviour towards better control of HIV and sexually transmitted infections. This interesting finding ... -
HIV prevention and street-based male sex workers: an evaluation of brief interventions.
(Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi, 2006)This study shows that brief interventions to reduce HIV risk were acceptable to male sex workers (MSWs) and are efficacious for reducing unprotected anal sex during paid sexual encounters. These methods should be developed ... -
Labour Market Dialogue: Perspectives from the Healthcare Sector in Kenya
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Epidemiologic investigation of a cluster of workplace HIV infections in the adult film industry: Los Angeles, California, 2004.
(Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi, 2007)The article is a controversial new finding. It provides evidence that a change in strategy is needed. in that preventive and targeted HIV counselling should be given to adult film makers before and after monthly polymerase ... -
The role of relationship intimacy in consistent condom use among female sex workers and their regular paying partners in the Dominican Republic
(Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi, 2007)The findings of this study are of great value in planning responsive interventions for female sex workers (FSWs) who have a regular paying partner, also referred to as 'lover' or 'husband', and those who just have paying ... -
Opportunities for woman-initiated HIV prevention methods among female sex workers in southern China
(Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi, 2007)In my observation and as validated by those in sex industry. a female-controlled method of HIV prevention is needed now. and not in the future. because power struggles inhibit women from negotiating safer sex practices. The ... -
Prevalence of sexual difficulties among female sex workers and clients attending a sexual health service.
(Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi, 2007)This study confirms what has been observed in Kenya; female sex-workers are exposed to psychological and physical torture, particularly at the level of condom-use negotiation. The article reports on the abuse of rights ... -
nfection With Trichomonas Vaginalisi Increases the Risk of Hiv-1acquisition
(University of Nairobi, 2007)We conducted a prospective study among women in Mombasa, Kenya, to determine whether Trichomonas vaginalis infection was associated with an increased risk of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. At monthly ... -
Health work, female sex workers and HIV/AIDS: global and local dimensions of stigma and deviance as barriers to effective interventions
(Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi, 2008)This study validates my own clinical experience that sex workers are sometimes stigmatized. discriminated against and denied services. Advanced Sign out This article is about how stigma can and does interfere with ... -
Assessing the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and training needs related to infant feeding, specifically breastfeeding, of child care providers.
(Springer USCenter for HIV Prevention and Research, University of NairobiDepartment of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1571, USA, 2008)The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and training needs of child care providers on infant feeding practices, specifically breastfeeding. METHODS: Needs assessment surveys for child ...