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Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Cooking Fuel Use Patterns, Income and Food Security in an Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
(Environmental Health Perspectives, 2020-10-26)
Approximately 2.5 billion individuals use solid fuels (e.g. wood, coal) for cooking, exposing them to health-damaging household air pollution (HAP). A COVID-19 lockdown may impact the cooking habits, earning power, food ...
COVID-19 Lockdown in a Kenyan Informal Settlement: Impacts on Household Energy and Food Security
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2020-05)
A COVID-19 lockdown may impact household fuel use and food security for ~700 million subSaharan Africans who rely on polluting fuels (e.g. wood, kerosene) for household energy and
typically work in the informal economy. ...
Global Health in the Age of COVID-19: Responsive Health Systems Through a Right to Health Fund
(Health and Human Rights Journal, 2020-06)
We propose that a Right to Health Capacity Fund (R2HCF) be created as a central institution of a reimagined global health architecture developed in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such ...
The Short-Term Economic Effects of Covid-19 on Low-income Households in Rural Kenya: An Analysis Using Weekly Financial Household Data
(Elsevier, 2020-11-25)
This research assesses how low-income households in rural Kenya coped with the immediate economic
consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses granular financial data from weekly household interviews
covering six weeks ...
Adequacy of Prenatal Care and its Association with Low Birth Weight in Ndola and Kitwe, Zambia
(Gavin Publishers, 2020-09-23)
Background: Prenatal care is one of the recommended interventions globally to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. In most Sub-Saharan African countries, high rates of poor pregnancy outcomes coexist with high Antenatal ...
Factors Associated with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa A systematic and meta-analysis
(ResearchGate, 2020-08-19)
Background
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are common complications of pregnancy globally,
including sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Although it has a high burden of maternal
and neonatal mortality and ...
Enabling and Hindering Factors of Health Surveillance Assistants’ Roles in the Provision of Contraceptive Services in Mangochi, Malawi
(Springer, 2020-04-20)
Background: Contraceptive services are essential for promoting people’s health, and economic and social wellbeing.
Despite increased contraceptive use over the past decades, unmet need is still high in Malawi. As a result ...
Using Friendship Ties to Understand the Prevalence of, and Factors Associated With, Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Kenya: Cross-Sectional, Respondent-Driven Survey Study
(JMIR Publications, 12/31/2020)
Background: Optimization of innovative approaches is required for estimating the intimate partner violence (IPV) burden
among adolescents and young adults (AYA). Further investigation is required to identify risk and ...
Health providers´ knowledge on maternal and newborn care: implications on health systems strengthening in Vihiga County, Kenya
(The Pan African medical journal, 2020)
Pregnant women need access to skilled attendance at birth and emergency obstetric care (EmOC) to avert maternal deaths. While poor EmOC services may explain the high maternal mortality, inadequate knowledge of providers ...
Determinants of Quality In-home-based Management of Malaria by Community Health Volunteers in Rural Kenya
(The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2020-12-16)
Abstract
Introduction: Kenya adopted the World Health Organization’s recommendation of community case management of malaria (CCMM) in 2012. Trained community health volunteers (CHVs) provide CCMM but information on quality ...