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“I will not let my HIV status stand in the way." Decisions on motherhood among women on ART in a slum in Kenya a qualitative study
(BioMed Central, 4/28/2010)
Background
The African Medical Research Foundation antiretroviral therapy program at the community health centre in Kibera counsels women to wait with pregnancy until they reach the acceptable level of 350 cells/ml CD4 ...
Enhancing the Supervision of Community Health Workers With WhatsApp Mobile Messaging: Qualitative Findings from 2 Low-Resource Settings in Kenya
(Global Health: Science and Practice, 5/26/2016)
An estimated half of all mobile phone users in Kenya use WhatsApp, an instant messaging platform that provides users
an affordable way to send and receive text messages, photos, and other media at the one-to-one, one-to-many, ...
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 ...
The Influence of Traditional Medicine and Religion on Discontinuation of ART in an Urban Informal Settlement in Nairobi
(Taylor & Francis Online, 3/10/2011)
Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the influence of traditional medicine and religion on discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in one of Africa's largest informal urban settlement, Kibera, in ...
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
(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 ...
Challenges for Scaling up ART in a Resource-Limited Setting: A Retrospective Study in Kibera, Kenya
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009-04-01)
Objective: To determine levels of dropout and adherence in an antiretroviral treatment (ART) program in sub-Saharan Africa's largest urban informal settlement, Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya.
Method: Retrospective cohort ...
Sexual Risk Taking among Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in an Urban Informal Settlement in Kenya: A Cross-sectional Survey
(BioMed Central, 4/18/2011)
Background
Our intention was to analyze demographic and contextual factors associated with sexual risk taking among HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Africa's largest informal urban settlement, ...
Comparing Clinic Retention Between Residents and Nonresidents of Kibera, Kenya
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 3/1/2010)
We are grateful to Chung et al who, in response to our article, brought forward several
interesting issues regarding retention in care and drop-out from antiretroviral
treatment (ART) programs in urban slum settings.1 Our ...