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        Ebola: International Scare Local Nightmare 

        AMREF (AMREF, 2001)
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        Echinococcus granulosus: Ultrastructural Effect of Albendazole Therapy 

        Magamboa, J. K.; Zeyhle, E.; Nganda, N. T.; Raasen, T.; Wachira, J. (African Journal of Health Sciences, 1994-11)
        The effects of the anthelmintic Albendazole against Echinococcus granulosus hydatid cysts in Turkana patients given orally were studied by means of ultrasound as well as light microscopy, scanning and transmission electron ...
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        Effect of an Interactive Text-messaging Service on Patient Retention during the First Year of HIV Care in Kenya (WelTel Retain): An Open-label, Randomised Parallel-group Study 

        der Kop, Mia Liisa van; Muhula, Samuel; Nagide, Patrick I; Thabane, Lehana; Gelmon, Lawrence; Awiti, Patricia Opondo; Abunah, Bonface; Bazira Kyomuhangi, Lennie; Budd, Matthew A; Marra, Carlo; Patel, Anik; Karanja, Sarah; Ojakaa, David I; Mills, Edward J; Ekström, Anna Mia (Lancet Public Health, 2018-04-04)
        Background—Retention of patients in HIV care is crucial to ensure timely treatment initiation, viral suppression, and to avert AIDS-related deaths. We did a randomised trial to determine whether a text-messaging intervention ...
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        The Effect of Bi-annual Community-directed Treatment with ivermectin on the incidence of epilepsy in onchocerciasis endemic villages in South Sudan: a study protocol 

        Marwa, Tom; Karanja, Sarah; Osero, Justus; Orago, Alloys (2019-07-16)
        Introduction: HIV self-testing could add a new approach to scaling up HIV testing with potential of being high impact, low cost, confidential, and empowering for users. Methods: Pregnant women attending antenatal clinics ...
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        The Effect of Combining Business Training, Microfinance, and Support Group Participation on Economic Status and Intimate Partner Violence in an Unplanned Settlement of Nairobi, Kenya 

        Sarnquist, Clea C.; Ouma, Linda; Lang’at, Nickson; Lubanga, Chrisanthus; Sinclair, Jake; Baiocchi, Michael T.; Cornfield, David N. (SAGE Publishing, 6/4/2018)
        Intimate partner violence (IPV) has myriad negative health and economic consequences for women and families. We hypothesized that empowering women through a combination of formal business training, microfinance, and IPV ...
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        The Effect of COVID-19 and Its Control Measures on Sexual Satisfaction Among Married Couples in Kenya 

        Osur, Prof. Joachim; Ireri, Edward Mugambi; Esho, Tammary (Elsevier Inc., 2021)
        Background: COVID-19 was first diagnosed in Kenya in March 2020 following which the government instituted control measures which could have affected people's sexual satisfaction and overall quality of life including ...
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        Effect of Ivermectin Treatment on the Frequency of Seizures in Persons with Epilepsy Infected with Onchocerca volvulus 

        Dusabimana, Alfred; Wafula, Solomon Tsebeni; Raimon, Stephen Jada; Fodjo, Joseph Nelson Siewe; Bhwana, Dan; Tepage, Floribert; Abd-Elfarag, Gasim; Hotterbeekx, An; Abrams, Steven; Colebunders, Robert (MDPI, 2020-12-31)
        A clinical trial performed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), among persons with epilepsy (PWE) infected with Onchocerca volvulus treated with anti-seizure medication suggested that ivermectin reduces the seizure ...
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        The Effect of Prelacteal feeding on Full breastfeeding in Nairobi. 

        Lakati, AS; Makokha, OA; Binns, CW; Kombe, Y (East African Journal of Public Health, 2011-03-24)
        To assess the effect of pre-lacteal feeding on full breastfeeding in the first six months of life in selected hospitals, Nairobi Province. Pre-lacteal feeding has been internationally discouraged because of its negative ...
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        The Effect of Women’s Empowerment in the Utilisation of Family Planning in Western Ethiopia: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach 

        Muluneh, Muluken Dessalegn; Francis, Lyn; Ayele, Mhiret; Abebe, Sintayehu; Makonnen, Misrak; Stulz, Virginia (MDPI, 6/9/2021)
        This study examines the associations between women’s empowerment and family planning use in Jimma Zone, Western Ethiopia. A total of 746 randomly selected married women of reproductive age were interviewed. The data were ...
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        The Effect of Work Status on Exclusive Breastfeeding in Nairobi 

        Lakati, Alice; Binns, Colin; Stevenson, Mark (Pubmed, 2002-07-01)
        For many women today work is essential for the economic survival of their families while they also fulfil their role of providing optimum nutrition to their babies through breastfeeding. The objective of the study is to ...
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        Effectiveness of Expanded Delivery Mechanisms/ Channels and Empowerment of Caregivers on Diarrhoea Management of Children under Five Years, Narok County, Kenya 

        Nduba, John; Nyagero, Josephat; Mbiti, Elijah; Mutua, Josphat; Chula, Esther; Kung`u, Jacqueline; Akach, Bob (Ministry of Health, Kenya, 2015-09-29)
        - Diarrhoea contributes to > 20% U5 mortality (MOPHS, 2010) - ORS & Zinc can prevent diarrhoea child deaths by 93% and 21% (UNICEF & WHO 2010) - Access to ORS & Zinc at community is a bottleneck - Although 80% ...
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        Effectiveness of Kenya's Community Health Strategy in delivering community-based maternal and newborn health care in Busia County, Kenya: non-randomized pre-test post test study 

        Wangalwa, Gilbert; Cudjoe, Bennett; Wamalwa, David; Machira, Yvonne; Ofware, Peter; Ndirangu, Meshack; Ilako, Festus (Pan African Medical Journal, 12/26/2012)
        Background: Maternal mortality ratio and neonatal mortality rate trends in Kenya have remained unacceptably high in a decade. In 2007, the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation adopted a community health strategy to ...
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        Effectiveness of Kenya’s Community Health Strategy in Delivering Community-based Maternal and Newborn Health Care in Busia County, Kenya: 

        Wangalwa, Gilbert; Cudjoe, Bennett; Wamalwa, David; Machira, Yvonne; Ofware, Peter; Ndirangu, Meshack; Ilako, Festus (Pan African Medical Journal, 12/26/2012)
        Background: Maternal mortality ratio and neonatal mortality rate trends in Kenya have remained unacceptably high in a decade. In 2007, the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation adopted a community health strategy to ...
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        Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha Model in Improving Access to Ante-natal and Delivery Services Among Nomadic Pastoralist Communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya 

        Jillo, Jillo Ali; Ofware, Peter Obonyo; Njuguna, Susan; Mwaura-Tenambergen, Wanja (Pan African Medical Journal, 4/23/2015)
        Introduction: Access to maternal and child health care services among the nomadic pastoralists community in Kenya and African continent in general is unacceptably low. In Turkana, only 18.1% of the women had seen a nurse ...
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        Effectiveness of One Dose of Oral Cholera Vaccine in Response to an Outbreak: A Case-cohort Study 

        Azman, Andrew S.; Parker, Lucy A; Rumunu, John; Tadesse, Fisseha; Grandesso, Francesco; Deng, Lul L.; Lino, Richard Laku; Bior, Bior K.; Lasuba, Michael; Page, Anne-Laure; Ontweka, Lameck; Llosa, Augusto E.; Cohuet, Sandra; Pezzoli, Lorenzo; Sodjinou, Dossou Vincent; Abubakar, Abdinasir; Debes, Amanda K.; Mpairwe, Allan M.; Wamala, Joseph F.; Jamet, Christine; Lessler, Justin; Sack, David A.; Quilici, Marie-Laure; Ciglenecki, Iza; Luquero, Francisco J. (Elsevier Ltd., 2016-11)
        Background Oral cholera vaccines represent a new eff ective tool to fi ght cholera and are licensed as two-dose regimens with 2–4 weeks between doses. Evidence from previous studies suggests that a single dose of oral ...
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        Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Child, Early or Forced Marriages in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Senegal 

        Esho, Tammary; Matanda, Dennis J.; Abuya, Timothy; Abebe, Sintayehu; Hailu, Yeshitila; Camara, Khaltoume; Mouhammed, Bachir; Kapsandui, Tonny; Kamanzi, Lilian; Wabwire, Andrew; Kagurusi, Patrick; Nankanja, Maureen; Kawai, David; Kogada, John; Ondigo, Millicent; Gitimu, Anne; Osur, Joachim (Research Square, 2021-09-30)
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        Effects of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy on the Survival of HIV-infected Adult Patients in Urban Slums of Kenya 

        Muhula, Samuel Opondo; Memiah, Peter; Sibhatu, Biadgilign; Ndirangu, Meshack; Kyomuhangi, Lennie (Pan African Medical Journal, 1/22/2015)
        Recent improvements in access to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) have radically reduced hospitalizations and deaths associated with HIV infection in both developed countries and sub-Saharan Africa. Not much is known about ...
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        Effects of Selected Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Community Health Workers on Performance of Home Visits during Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in Busia District, Kenya 

        Crispin, Ndedda; Wamae, Annah; Ndirangu, Meshack; Wamalwa, David; Wangalwa, Gilbert; Watako, Patrick; Mbiti, Elijah (Canadian Center of Science and Education, 7/26/2012)
        Objective: Appropriate performance of home visits facilitates adoption of best practices at home and increased demand for facility based services. Methods: It was a cross-sectional study in which community health workers were ...
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        Emerging Trends in Socio-Demographic Characteristics and their Relationship to Economic Development in Nairobi 

        Osur, Joachim (LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015-04-29)
        An intricate relationship exists between economic development and maternal health. The performance of bilateral tubal ligation (BTL) marks the end to risks associated with pregnancy and maternal mortality, an indicator of ...
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        Empowering Communities against Harmful Social Practices through Integrated Water Hygiene and Sanitation and Alternative Rites of Passage Model in Kajiado County, Kenya 

        Mbogo, Bernard; Opanga, Yvonne; Mutua, Mercy; Muhula, Samuel; Lugayo, Denge (Scientific Research Publishing, 2022-11-15)
        The limited number of sonographers in developing countries and high cost of conventional obstetric ultrasound screening services has led to only 6.9 percent of pregnant women accessing the service in rural areas. It ...

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