Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) by Subject "East Africa"
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HIV/AIDS risk and worry in Northern Kenya
(Department of Public Health, 2009)Data from a 2003 survey of sexual behaviour (n = 400) conducted in the Ariaal community of Karare, Marsabit District, northern Kenya, were used to delineate patterns of risk and worry about contracting HIV/AIDS. Despite ... -
Kenyan Women Medical Doctors and Their Motivations to Pursue International Research Training
(Wolters Kluwer, 2013)There is a need to understand the factors that influence African women medical doctors to pursue international health research training because they remain under-represented in research fields but increasingly represented ... -
Right from primary school, I liked science: understanding health research capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa through Kenyan training experiences.
(2014)Defining research career paths that enable Africans to address local and global health issues is essential for population health. This study was conducted to better understand how international health training programs ... -
Self-deception does not explain high-risk sexual behavior in the face of HIV/AIDS: A test from northern Kenya
(Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3050, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3P5Department of Community Health, University of Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Anthropology, University of Washington, Box 353100, Seattle, WA 98195-3100, USA, 2006)Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, there is resistance to changing sexual behavior despite survey data indicating high levels of knowledge about HIV transmission patterns and high-risk behavior. Previous explanations for this ... -
Transmission intensity and the immunoepidemiology of bancroftian filariasis in East Africa
(2001)Previous attempts to determine the interactions between filariasis transmission intensity, infection and chronic disease have been limited by a lack of a theoretical framework that allows the explicit examination of ...