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The State of Universal Health Coverage in Africa – Report of The Africa Health Agenda International Conference Commission
(Amref Health Africa, 6/9/2021)PREFACE: The AHAIC (Africa Health Agenda International Conference) Commission for the State of UHC in Africa was established by Amref Health Africa in November 2020 with the support of Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, as ... -
Integration of Non-Communicable Diseases in Health Care: Tackling the Double Burden of Disease in African Settings
(Pan African Medical Journal and African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), 7/5/2014)Sub-Saharan African countries now face the double burden of Non Communicable and Communicable Diseases. This situation represents a major threat to fragile health systems and emphasises the need for innovative integrative ... -
Interaction Between Climatic, Environmental, and Demographic Factors on Cholera Outbreaks in Kenya
(BioMed Central, 10/1/2014)Background: Cholera remains an important public health concern in developing countries including Kenya where 11,769 cases and 274 deaths were reported in 2009 according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
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, ... -
Sexual Risk Reduction Strategies Among HIV Infected Men Receiving ART in Kibera, Nairobi
(Taylor & Francis, 2/22/2011)This paper explores motivational factors and barriers to sexual behaviour change among men receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART). Twenty in-depth interviews were undertaken with male patients enrolled at the African ... -
Reasoning and Deciding PMTCT-Adherence During Pregnancy Among Women Living with HIV in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-08)This study explores type identities among rural and urban slum women on antiretroviral therapies who become pregnant. Narrative structuring was chosen to develop type narratives that illustrate how rural and urban women ... -
Major Reduction in Anti-Malarial Drug Consumption in Senegal after Nation-Wide Introduction of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests
(PLoS ONE, 4/6/2011)Background: While WHO recently recommended universal parasitological confirmation of suspected malaria prior to treatment, debate has continued as to whether wide-scale use of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) can achieve this ... -
Is 'Opt-Out HIV Testing' a real option among pregnant women in rural districts in Kenya?
(BioMed Central, 3/8/2011)Background An 'opt-out' policy of routine HIV counseling and testing (HCT) is being implemented across sub-Saharan Africa to expand prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT). Although the underlying assumption is ... -
‘Keeping Healthy in the Backseat’: How Motherhood interrupted HIV treatment in recently delivered women in Kenya
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 6/22/2011)Although there is a large body of literature related to the experiences of motherhood and aspects of the change that it brings about, how the experience of motherhood affects the healthcare of women with chronic illness ... -
Perceptions of Malaria and Vaccines in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 10/1/2011)Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya. To confront malaria, the Government of Kenya has been implementing and coordinating three approaches - vector control by distributing insecticide-treated bed ... -
Variability in the Metabolism of Proguanil to the Active Metabolite Cycloguanil in Healthy Kenyan Adults
(Oxford University Press, 1990-08-01)Extensive metabolizers (EM) and poor metabolizers (PM) of the malaria chemoprophylactic drug proguanil have been identified by measuring the proguanil/cycloguanil ratio in urine following a single dose of the pro-drug. The ... -
Chapter 1: Barriers to Behaviour Change as a Response to STD Including HIV/AIDS: The East African Experience
(Resistances to Behavioural Change to Reduce HIV/AIDS Infection, 1999)This chapter is based on a regional project being implemented in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia by the African Medical Research Foundation. The project, which targets young people aged 10-25 years, is a five-year ... -
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 ... -
Daily chlorproguanil is an effective alternative to daily proguanil in the prevention of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Kenya
(Transitional of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 8/5/1993)To test the efficacy of chlorproguanil prophylaxis, 156 malaria-free schoolchildren in the coastal region of Kenya were allocated at random to receive either 7.5 mg chlorproguanil daily, 50 mg chlorproguanil weekly, 100 ... -
Library services at health facilities in Kenya
(1993-01)INTRODUCTION Rural health workers in sub-Saharan Africa face an extremely demanding work situation. Their relatively brief basic training is usually ten to twenty years past, resource constraints are severe, and they ... -
Chlorproguanil/Dapsone for the Treatment of Non-severe Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria in Kenya: a pilot study
(Oxford University Press, 5/1/1988)Chlorocycloguanil, the active metabolite of chlorproguanil, was synergistic in vitro with dapsone against 2 culture-adapted Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Kenya; maximal synergy occurred at lower concentrations that ... -
Sociodemographic Variations in Communication on Sexuality and HIV/AIDS with Parents, Family Members and Teachers Among In-school Adolescents: A Multi Site Study in Tanzania and South Africa
(Sage Publications, 6/1/2009)Aims: To identify with whom in-school adolescents preferred to communicate about sexuality, and to study adolescents’ communication on HIV/AIDS, abstinence and condoms with parents/guardians, other adult family members, ... -
Condom use and sexuality communication with adults: a study among high school students in South africa and Tanzania
(BMC Public Health, 9/23/2013)Background: Fostering adolescents’communication on sexuality issues with their parents and other significantadults is often assumed to be an important component of intervention programmes aimed at promoting healthyadolescent ...
