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Changes in Solo and Partnered Sexual Behaviors following the First COVID-19 Wave: Data from an International Study of 26 Countries
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-07-05)Objective: To determine individual- and country-level factors associated with self-reported changes in solo and partnered sexual behaviors in an international sample of adults during COVID-19. Methods: Data were from the ... -
Chapter 16 Socio-Demographic Determinants Of Risky Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents: A Case Study Of Homa-Bay County, Ken
(CEDRED Publications, 2022-11)Abstract Over the past decade, prevalence of risky sexual behavior among adolescent 15-19 years has been on upward trajectory. Globally, more than a half of adolescents engage in risky sexual behaviour. Sub-Saharan ... -
Chapter 1: Barriers to Behaviour Change as a Response to STD Including HIV/AIDS: The East African Experience
(Resistances to Behavioural Change to Reduce HIV/AIDS Infection, 1999)This chapter is based on a regional project being implemented in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia by the African Medical Research Foundation. The project, which targets young people aged 10-25 years, is a five-year ... -
Chapter 37. Training Teachers for Health Workers
(1980)To develop health services so that they cover a greater proportion of the world 's population we need more health workers, and to train more health workers appropriately we need more teachers. Health workers of all kinds ... -
Chapter 9 Health-Facility Characteristics Influencing the Uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services among Adolescents 15-19 years: A Case-Study of Homa-Bay County, Kenya
(The Centre for Democracy, Research and Development CEDRED Nairobi, Kenya, 2020-10)Health facility factors have been highly associated with the uptake of health servicer not only among adolescents but also to the general population at large. Nevertheless, because of special sexual and reproductive needs ... -
Chlorproguanil/Dapsone for the Treatment of Non-severe Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria in Kenya: a pilot study
(Oxford University Press, 5/1/1988)Chlorocycloguanil, the active metabolite of chlorproguanil, was synergistic in vitro with dapsone against 2 culture-adapted Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Kenya; maximal synergy occurred at lower concentrations that ... -
Cholera Rapid Test with Enrichment Step Has Diagnostic Performance Equivalent to Culture
(CrossMark, 2016-12-19)Cholera rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) could play a central role in outbreak detection and surveillance in low-resource settings, but their modest performance has hindered their broad adoption. The addition of an enrichment ... -
CHP 211 & PHT 315: BIOSTATISTICS
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Clarion Call for Africa to meet at the Middle in the Malaria Vaccine Introduction
(2020)Malaria still, severely, impacts life and health in Africa and remains one of the continent’s biggest killers. It is estimated that four out of 10 pregnant women are exposed to the malaria parasite, leading to maternal ... -
Client Perception on Quality of Health Care Offered To In Patients in Public and Faith Based Hospitals in Kiambu and Nairobi Counties , In Kenya: A Comparative Study
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2017-12)Introduction Quality is the ability to deliver services that satisfy the consumer’s needs whereas service quality is the ability to meet or exceed customer expectations, providing quality healthcare is an ethical obligation ... -
Client Perception on Quality of Health Care Offered To In-Patients in Public and Faith-Based Hospitals in Kiambu and Nairobi Counties, In Kenya A Comparative Study
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2017-11)bstract- Introduction Quality is the ability to deliver services that satisfy the consumer’s needs whereas service quality is the ability to meet or exceed customer expectations, providing quality healthcare is an ethical ... -
Clinical Characteristics of Onchocerciasis-associated Epilepsy in Villages in Maridi County, Republic of South Sudan
(Elsevier, 2018-11)C T Purpose: To describe the clinical manifestations of persons with epilepsy (PWE) in onchocerciasis endemic villages in South Sudan. Methods: During a survey in Maridi County in May 2018, PWE were interviewed and ... -
Closing the Gap Between Community and Formal Health Systems
(Amref Flying Doctors, 2022-09-17)Every pregnant woman deserves the right to be treated with respect and dignity when visiting a health facility. Unfortunately, this is still not the case in many countries around the world. This creates an environment in ... -
Cluster Randomized Evaluation of the Nia Project: Study Protocol
(CrossMark, 2018-12-19)Background: The onset of puberty and menarche is a specifically vulnerable time for girls, during which they begin to show interest in the opposite sex, while becoming exposed to a myriad of external pressures, including ... -
Communication (Surgery in East Africa - Technology and Training)
(1981)Perhaps our most disturbing deficiency is nor our lack of knowledge but our inability to use the knowledge we have (Bryant 1969). Introduction The situation quoted above may be a key to an understanding of the ... -
Community and Provider Perceptions of Traditional and Skilled Birth Attendants Providing Maternal Health Care for Pastoralist Communities in Kenya: A Qualitative Study
(BioMed Central, 2016-03-01)Background Kenya has a high burden of maternal and newborn mortality. Consequently, the Government of Kenya introduced health system reforms to promote the availability of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) and proscribed ... -
Community health volunteers' contribution to tuberculosis patients notified to National Tuberculosis program through contact investigation in Kenya
(CrossMark, 2020)Background: Contact investigation is important in finding contacts of people who have Tuberculosis (TB) disease so that they can be given treatment and stop further transmission. The main objective of this study was to ... -
Community Health Workers: An Underappreciated Asset to Tackle NCD
(Elsevier Ltd., 2016-12-01)With continued undernutrition and escalating overnutrition, urbanization, and resource-strapped health systems, nations—particularly those in the low- and middle-income brackets—are facing the harsh reality of a growing ... -
Community Health Workers: An Underappreciated Asset to Tackle NCD
(PubMed, 2016-12)NCD are an urgent social, economic, and health issue, and we need solutions at the community level to tackle them. There is dearth of skilled health force to tackle the challenges posed by NCD. Training and empowering ... -
Community Perception of Epilepsy and its Treatment in Onchocerciasis-endemic Villages of Maridi County, Western Equatoria State, South Sudan
(Elsevier, 2022-01-10)Objective To assess the community’s perception of epilepsy and its treatment in onchocerciasis-endemic villages of Maridi County, Western Equatoria State, South Sudan. The study was conducted prior to the setting up of a ...