Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Implementation and operational research: correlates of adherence and treatment failure among Kenyan patients on long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy
(2015)Background: Universal access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is still elusive in most developing nations. We asked whether peer support influenced adherence and treatment outcome and if a single viral load ... -
Oral health inequalities between rural and urban populations of the African and middle East region
(University of Nairobi, 2015-06-29)Although there have been major improvements in oral health, with remarkable advances in the prevention and management of oral diseases, globally, inequalities persist between urban and rural communities. These inequalities ... -
Thoughts on Intellectual and Institutional Links Between African and Black Studies
(2008)Black identity and nationalism in the civil rights era were forged through trans- Atlantic and Pan-African solidarity. Both African and African-American intellectuals and institutions played key roles in Pan-African ... -
Spatio-temporal characteristics and the distribution of Older Persons in Lamu and Turkana districts in Kenya
(2014)This paper emanates from a study on population ageing in rural and urban Kenya conducted by the author in 20081. Its thrust lies on the need to understand the roles, if at all, of spatial and temporal factors in explaining ... -
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822 (review)
(2001)Two statements about African slavery briefly captured the attention of Africanists in the year 2000. The first, contained in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Wonders of the African World, explicitly blamed Africans for the heinous ... -
Introduction
(2008)This introductory article explains the origins of this special issue initiative in the work of a select number of African graduate students in the US. It locates the different articles included in the volume in the general ... -
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (review)
(2005)There are two main problems a scholar is likely to confront when writing on the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. The first is the challenge of crafting a study in a field that boasts a large historiography. Wading through ... -
Access and attitudes to HPV vaccination amongst hard-to-reach populations in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2015-06-26)BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa bears the greatest burden of cervical cancer. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programmes to prevent the disease will need to reach vulnerable girls who may not be able access health ... -
Patient attrition between diagnosis with HIV in Pregnancy-related services and long-term HIV care and Treatment services in Kenya: a retrospective study
(University of Nairobi, 2012)Background: There has been little attention, until recently, to linking women who test HIV positive in pregnancy-related services to long-term HIV care and treatment services. Methods: A retrospective review of routine ... -
The cosmopolitan tradition and fissures in segregationist town planning in Nairobi, 1915–23
(2012)This article argues that the attempts to institute segregation in Nairobi faltered because the process of urban land allocation, use and exchange and the legislation supporting this process did not support segregation. It ... -
strathmore law journal
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
