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Participation in a Mobile Health Intervention Trial to Improve Retention in HIV Care: does Gender Matter?
(SAGE Journals, 4/13/2016)Background To be consistent with the United Nations’ sustainable development goals on gender equality, mobile health (mHealth) programmes should aim to use communications technology to promote the empowerment of women. We ... -
Patient Factors Associated with Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Cancer Patients at a County Referral Hospital, Kenya
(African Journal of Health Sciences Volume 36, Issue No.5, September – October 2023, 2023)BACKGROUND Despite numerous global reports on the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), no studies have been published regarding its use at Machakos Level 5 Hospital. Therefore, this study aims to ... -
Patient Retention in Antiretroviral Therapy Programs up to Three Years on Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2007-2009: Systematic Review: Patient Retention in Antiretroviral Therapy Programs
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2010-06)Objectives To estimate the proportion of all-cause adult patient attrition from antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs in service delivery settings in sub-Saharan Africa through 36 months on treatment. Methods We ... -
Patients Perception and Utilization of Integrated Services in Embu Referral Hospital, Kenya.
(International Journal of Innovative Research in Information Security (IJIRIS), 2019)Globally, there are approximately 36.7 million people living with HIV, with an estimated 3.8 million individuals newly infected with HIV and about 5,000 new infections per day in the year 2017-2018. Integration of HIV ... -
Paving the Way for Universal Family Planning Coverage in Ethiopia: an Analysis of Wealth related inequality
(BioMed Central, 9/14/2015)Background: Family planning plays a significant role in reducing maternal and child mortality and ultimately in achieving national and international development goals. It also has an important role in reducing new pediatric HIV ... -
Pay-As-You-Go Liquefied Petroleum Gas Supports Sustainable Clean Cooking in Kenyan Informal Urban Settlement during COVID-19 Lockdown
(Science Direct, 2021-03)Approximately 2.8 billion people rely on polluting fuels (e.g. wood, kerosene) for cooking. With affordability being a key access barrier to clean cooking fuels, such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), pay-as-you-go (PAYG) ... -
Peer Communication on Sex and Sexual Health among youths: a case of Debre Berhan University, Ethiopia
(PanAfrican Medical Journal, 2016-11-26)Introduction: friends are considered an important source of advice and information about sex. Conversations about sex among young people tend to generate norms that influence positive or negative pressure on individuals ... -
The Perceived Effects of COVID‑19 Pandemic on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Child or Forced Marriages in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Senegal
(BMC Public Health, 2022-03-29)Background: The effects of COVID-19 on harmful traditional practices such Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and Child or Forced Marriages (CFM) have not been well documented. We examined respondents’ perceptions on ... -
Perception and Level of Knowledge on Preconception Care Uptake Among Women of Child Bearing Age Attending Reproductive Health Clinic at Kenyatta National Hospital
(Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2021)Background: Provision of care to adolescent girls and women before and between pregnancies improves their overall health. It also improves the pregnancy outcomes and the health of the new-born. There are many health ... -
Perceptions of Malaria and Vaccines in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 10/1/2011)Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya. To confront malaria, the Government of Kenya has been implementing and coordinating three approaches - vector control by distributing insecticide-treated bed ... -
Performance & Utilization of Handwashing Stations deployed in response to COVID-19 in Kenya:
(2021)Handwashing, although a simple task, is lifesaving and adherence to proper hand hygiene has been strongly linked to prevention of gastrointestinal infections, respiratory infection, influenza, healthcare-associated infections, ... -
PerSIST: A PAL System for Clinical Skills Training: A Planning and Implementation Framework: Guide Supplement 30.8-Practical Application
(Medical Teacher, 2010-09)Context Involving peers as skills tutors has become an increasingly interesting tool in medical and nursing schools worldwide. The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) adopted the term peer-assisted ... -
Persons with Onchocerciasis-associated Epilepsy and Nodding Seizures Have a More Severe Form of Epilepsy with More Cognitive Impairment and Higher Levels of Onchocerca volvulus Infection
(Epileptic Disorders, 2020-06)Aims. Following previous reports of very high epilepsy prevalence in the onchocerciasis-endemic villages in Maridi County, South Sudan, a study was conducted to investigate the association between the level of Onchocerca ... -
Pharmacology/Toxicology case study
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Physiology of pregnancy
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The place of knowledge management in influencing lasting health change in Africa: an analysis of AMREF's progress
(The Pan African Medical Journal, 2012-12-25)AMREF (African Medical and Research Foundation) developed a Knowledge Management Strategy that focused on creating, capturing and applying health knowledge to close the gap between communities and health systems in Africa. ... -
Placing people at the heart of African health systems
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Please get me out of here: The difficult decision making in fit-to-fly assessments for international fixed-wing air ambulance operations
(Travel Med Infect Dis, 2023-06-17)Introduction: With international travel for leisure and business almost back to pre-pandemic levels, demand for repatriation due to illness and injury abroad is increasing [1,2]. In any repatriation, there is considerable ... -
Policy Environment for Prevention, Control and Management of Cardiovascular Diseases in Primary Health Care in Kenya
(Springer, 2018-05)Background: In Kenya, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) accounted for more than 10% of total deaths and 4% of total Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) in 2015 with a steady increase over the past decade. The main objective ...
