Research Papers: Recent submissions
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Evaluating the Impact of the DREAMS Partnership to Reduce HIV Incidence among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Four Settings: A Study Protocol
(BMC, 2018-07-25)Background: HIV risk remains unacceptably high among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in southern and eastern Africa, reflecting structural and social inequities that drive new infections. In 2015, PEPFAR (the United ... -
Effectiveness of One Dose of Oral Cholera Vaccine in Response to an Outbreak: A Case-cohort Study
(Elsevier Ltd., 2016-11)Background Oral cholera vaccines represent a new eff ective tool to fi ght cholera and are licensed as two-dose regimens with 2–4 weeks between doses. Evidence from previous studies suggests that a single dose of oral ... -
Effect of Ivermectin Treatment on the Frequency of Seizures in Persons with Epilepsy Infected with Onchocerca volvulus
(MDPI, 2020-12-31)A clinical trial performed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), among persons with epilepsy (PWE) infected with Onchocerca volvulus treated with anti-seizure medication suggested that ivermectin reduces the seizure ... -
Ethics of Task Shifting in the Health Workforce: Exploring the Role of Community Health Workers in HIV Service Delivery in Low- and Middle-income Countries
(BMC, 2018-07-04)Background: Task shifting is increasingly used to address human resource shortages impacting HIV service delivery in low- and middle-income countries. By shifting basic tasks from higher- to lower-trained cadres, such as ... -
Epilepsy-related Stigma and Cost in Two Onchocerciasis-endemic Areas in South Sudan: A Pilot Descriptive Study
(Elsevier, 2020-08-06)Introduction: Epilepsy is a major public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in resource-limited rural villages where persons with epilepsy (PWE) are often confronted with a wide treatment gap, frequent ... -
Determinants of Birth Asphyxia among Preterm Newborns in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies Protocol
(BMC, 2022-02-19)Background: Birth asphyxia accounted for nearly 50% of neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan African countries. This scenario has been worst in Ethiopia where every two out of three deaths attributed to birth asphyxia. ... -
Delivery of Insecticide-treated Net Services Through Employer and Community-based Approaches in Kenya
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007-01)Background and objectives: Many approaches have been used to deliver insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) to African communities in different settings. Between 1992 and 2002, the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), ... -
Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Clinical Specialist Outreach as Compared to Referral System in Ethiopia: An Economic Evaluation
(BioMed Central, 2010-06-11)Background In countries with scarce specialized Human resource for health, patients are usually referred. The other alternative has been mobilizing specialists, clinical specialist outreach. This study examines whether ... -
Comparison of GeneXpert and Line Probe Assay for Detection of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Rifampicin-mono Resistance at the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2019-10)Background: The dual challenge of low diagnostic sensitivity of microscopy test and technical challenge of performing a TB culture test poses a problem for case detection and initiation of Tuberculosis (TB) second-line ... -
Comparing Performance of Mothers Using Simplified Mid-upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) Classification Devices with an Improved MUAC Insertion Tape in Isiolo County, Kenya
(CrossMark, 2018-02)Background: A novel approach for improving community case-detection of acute malnutrition involves mothers/caregivers screening their children for acute malnutrition using a mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) insertion ... -
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 ... -
COVID-19 Impacts on Household Energy & Food Security in a Kenyan Informal Settlement: The Need for Integrated Approaches to the SDGs
(Elsevier Ltd., 2021-03-21)This longitudinal study presents the joint effects of a COVID-19 community lockdown on household energy and food security in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. Randomly administered surveys were completed from December ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Challenges in Controlling the Ebola Outbreak in Two Prefectures in Guinea: Why Did Communities Continue to Resist?
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2015-10-11)Introduction: The Ebola outbreak emerged in a remote corner of Guinea in December 2013, and spread into Liberia and Sierra Leone in the context of weak health systems. In this paper, we report on the main challenges faced ... -
Challenges and Outcomes of Haemodialysis among Patients Presenting with Kidney Diseases in Dodoma, Tanzania
(CrossMark, 2017-07-04)Background: Kidney Diseases contribute a significant proportion to the global burden of non-communicable diseases. Haemodialysis services as the main modality of renal replacement therapy in most resource limited countries ... -
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda
(The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), 2021-04)Executive Summary Since the first case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported in China in late 2019, the ensuing global pandemic has challenged human health and development and hampered the attainment of ... -
Abortion Related Stigma: A Case Study of Abortion Stigma in Regions with High and Low Incidences of Unsafe Abortion
(East African Medical Journal, 2016-03)Background: Abortion accounts for 35% of maternal mortality in Kenya. Kenya has reported an increase in the rate of unsafe abortions from 32 to 48 per 1000 women of reproductive age in 2002 and 2012 respectively. During ... -
The Age Specific Practices and Outcomes in Women Undergoing Unsafe Abortions in Rural Communities of Kenya
(Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 2013-04)Unsafe Abortion is common among young women. It is not however known whether the young women decide on their own to terminate the pregnancies, whether the methods they use are similar to those of older women, and whether ...
