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Why do People Marry
(University of NairobiDepartment of Philosophy and religious studies, 1996) -
Why has the dihydrofolate reductase 164 mutation not consistently been found in Africa yet?
(Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice, 2005)Resistance to the antifolate sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (SP), the current mass-treatment antimalarial drug, is associated with selection of point mutations in dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthase. Among these ... -
Why is There Low Morbidity and Mortality of COVID-19 in Africa?
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Three months since the detection of the first COVID-19 case in Africa, almost all countries of the continent continued to report lower morbidity and mortality than the global trend, including Europe and North America. We ... -
Why learning institutions should carry out regular environmental audits
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Why medical students choose psychiatry - a 20 country cross-sectional survey.
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)BACKGROUND: Recruitment to psychiatry is insufficient to meet projected mental health service needs world-wide. We report on the career plans of final year medical students from 20 countries, investigating factors ... -
Why patients go the traditional healers
(Department of Community Health Faculty of Medicine, University of Nairobi, 1982-03)Even in cines where western medicine is accessible and available patients consult traditional medical practitioners (waganga), often postponing or dis¬continuing medical treatment to do so (1,2). A large measure of the ... -
WHY PESTS AND DISEASES REGULATION SHOULD CONCERN MANKIND
(University of NairobiDepartment of plant science and crop protection, 2013)Nature, through balancing mechanisms, provides ecosystem services, comprising provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services for the survival of mankind (MEA, Ecosystems and human well-being: biodiversity ... -
Why Rights, Why Now? Reflections on the Rise of Rights in International Development Discourse
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005)Abstract Not Available -
Why teach or study African Traditional Religion in Modern Africa?
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Why we should fear School-bus syndrome
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Why-Westlands-epitomises-Kenyas-bright-future
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Widow inheritance and HIV prevalence in Bondo District, Kenya: baseline results from a prospective cohort study
(Department of Research, Impact Research and Development Organization, Kisumu, KenyaDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of AmericaDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of AmericaCenter for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Community Health Sciences and Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 2010)BACKGROUND: Widow Inheritance is a widespread cultural practice in sub-Saharan Africa that has been postulated as contributing to risk of HIV transmission. We present baseline results from a study designed to investigate ... -
Widow, Widowing and Remarriage: Ritual and Reality among the Luhya of Kenya
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Widowing and Remarriage
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2004)“The Widow’s Perception of Being Remarriage” focuses on the topical issue of the process of remarriage as practiced among the Banyore community of Vihiga District of Western Province. It is a report of a research carried ... -
Wife Beating among the Abagusero
(Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, 2006)No associated abstract -
Wife-Beating Among the Abagusero Community in Kisii District, Kenya.
(University of NairobiInstitute of Anthropology, Gender & African Studies, 2006) -
Wild animal bites injuries in the craniomaxillofacial Region
(University of NairobiFaculty of medicine, 2009) -
Wild Edible Fruits of lmportance for Human Nutrition in Semiarid Parts of East ShewaZone, Ethiopia: Associated lndigenous Knowledge and lmplications to Food SecuritY
(2011)Nutrient value assessments and ethnobotanical studies of three wild edible fruit species [Ziziphus spina-christi (L) Oesf., Balanites aegyptiaca (L) Del., Grewia flavescens A. Juss.J, were carried out from October 2009 ... -
Wild grains and neglected crops
(University of NairobiCollege of biological and physical science, 1989) -
Wildebeest-associated malignant catarrhal fever: perspectives for integrated control of a lymphoproliferative disease of cattle in sub-Saharan Africa.
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Wildebeest-associated malignant catarrhal fever (WA-MCF), an acute lymphoproliferative disease of cattle caused by alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1), remains a significant constraint to cattle production in nomadic ...