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Effectiveness of Kenya’s Community Health Strategy in Delivering Community-based Maternal and Newborn Health Care in Busia County, Kenya:
(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 ...
Making Aid effective at the Community Level: The AMREF Experience
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-09)
Effective use of donor aid is critical in achieving the sixth Millennium Development Goal –reversing the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2015. The Paris Declaration of 2005 identified five key principles for aid effectiveness: ...
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
(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 ...
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
(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 ...
Food Banking for Improved Nutrition of HIV Infected Orphans and Vulnerable Children; Emerging Evidence from Quality Improvement Teams in High Food Insecure Regions of Kiambu, Kenya
(Pan African Medical Journal, 11/26/2016)
Introduction: Estimated 236,548 People Living with HIV (PLHIV) were in Central-Eastern Kenya in 2013. Kiambu County had 46,656 PLHIV with 42,400 (91%) adults and 4,200(9%) children (1-14yrs). Amref Health Africa in Kenya, ...
A Scorecard for Assessing Functionality of Community Health Unit in Kenya
(Pan African Medical Journal, 11/26/2016)
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Uptake and Linkage into Care Over One Year of Providing HIV Testing and Counselling through Community and Health Facility Testing Modalities in Urban Informal Settlement of Kibera, Nairobi Kenya
(BioMed Central, 5/4/2016)
Background: We examine the uptake of HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC) and linkage into care over one year of
providing HTC through community and health facility testing modalities among people living in Kibera informal
urban ...
Effects of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy on the Survival of HIV-infected Adult Patients in Urban Slums of Kenya
(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 ...
Adaptive Scenarios in Quality Improvement (QI): a Case Study of an International Health Development and Research Organization Embracing Change
(International Journal of Health Sciences & Research, 10/8/2015)
Background: Health care organizations are under immense pressure to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivery. To date little research into how health organizations in resource-limited settings take up, ...