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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Enhancing the Supervision of Community Health Workers With WhatsApp Mobile Messaging: Qualitative Findings From 2 Low-Resource Settings in Kenya
(ResearchGate, 2016-05-26)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, ... -
Environmental Factors Influencing Prevention and Control of Schistosomiasis Infection in Mwea, Kirinyaga County Kenya: A Cross Sectional Study (nih.gov)
(The East African Health Research Commission, 2021-06-11)Background: Schistosomiasis remains a major public health problem in Kenya. Environmental factors are critical in creating a medium for growth and spread of schistosomiasis vectors. The study investigated the environmental ... -
Epidemiology of Cervical Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions in HIV Infected Women in Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Study
(Mason Publishing, 2015-03)Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide. Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and its related immunosuppression are associated with an increased risk of prevalent, incident, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Evaluation of A WASH/MNCH Targeted Primary Health Care Program in Uganda; A Mixed Methods Study
(PubMed, 2023-02-18)Background: Evidence on the impact of Maternal Newborn and child health (MNCH) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) interventions on skilled birth attendance (SBA) and neonatal sepsis remains unclear. We conducted this ... -
Evaluation of health care quality accorded to patients in Selected Public and Faith-Based Hospitals in Kiambu and Nairobi Counties in Kenya
(Primary Health Care: Open Access, 2013-03-27)To evaluate the level of quality health care provided to patients in public and private hospitals in Kiambu and Nairobi counties. This study evaluated the level of quality health care provided to patients in Mbagathi ... -
An Evaluation of Surveillance of Malaria at Primary Health Care in Kenya
(East African Medical Journal, 1997-09)As less than twenty five per cent of persons suffering from malaria seek formal treatment in most of sub-Saharan Africa, Facility-based morbidity statistics are inadequate for monitoring malaria control programmes. This ... -
Evaluation of the Alkaline Haematin D-575 Method for Haemoglobin Estimation in East Africa
(World Health Organization, 1994)In many health facilities in east Africa, haemoglobin estimation is performed using visual colour comparison methods. Efforts to establish colorimetric methods face numerous constraints, including the unavailability of ... -
Ever-use of Contraceptives among Sexually Experienced Kenyan Secondary School Girls
(AMREF, 1992-09)A nationwide /{AP study was conducted in September 1992 to establish aspects of Adolescent Fernale /-lea/th and Sexuality including contraception among girls attending secondary schools in Kenya. Using randomising and ... -
Examining the Quality of Medicines at Kenyan Healthcare Facilities: A Validation of an Alternative Post-Market Surveillance Model That Uses Standardized Patients
(SpringerLink, 2016-11-25)Background Promoting access to medicines requires concurrent efforts to strengthen quality assurance for sustained impact. Although problems of substandard and falsified medicines have been documented in low- and middle-income ... -
Exclusive Breastfeeding among Working Mothers in Kenya: Perspectives from Women, Families and Employers
(WILEY, 2021-03-26)Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months of life improves survival, growth and development. In Kenya, recent legislation and policies advocate for maternity leave and workplace support for breastfeeding and ... -
The existence of Dracunculus medinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Turkana, Kenya
(Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1981)Summary Dracontiasis has been previously reported in southern Sudan, northern Uganda and north-west Eritrea but this is the first report of autochthonous cases in Turkana, Kenya. Five Turkana tribesmen, three females ... -
External Quality Assessment in Resource-limited Countries
(Biochemia Medica, 2017)Abstract Introduction: Health laboratory services are a critical component of national health systems but face major operational challenges in resource-limited (RL) settings. New funding for health systems strengthening ...