Opiyo, Rose Okoyo Nyasulu, Peter Suwirakwenda Olenja, Joyce Zunza, Moleen Nguyen, Kim A. Bukania, Zipporah Nabakwe, Esther Mbogo, Alexander Were, Anthony Omolo
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Renal Replacement Therapy
IntroductionAdherence to dietary prescriptions among patients with chronic kidney disease is known to prevent deterioration of kidney functions and slow down the risk for morbidity and mortality. This study determined factors associated with adherence to dietary prescription among adult patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis.MethodsA ...
Kimani-Murage, Elizabeth Wambui Pythagore, Hermann Mwaniki, Elizabeth Daniel, Tewoldeberha Samburu, Betty Cuellar, Pilar Charle Mbochi, Regina Njiru, James Wangare, Lucy Karimurio, Lydia
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundIn many low income countries, the majority of acutely malnourished children are either brought to the health facility late or never at all due to reasons related to distance and associated costs. Integrated community case management (iCCM) is an integrated approach addressing disease and malnutrition through use of community health volunt...
Tumlinson, Katherine Gichane, Margaret W. Curtis, Siân L. LeMasters, Katherine
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundHealthcare worker absenteeism is common in resource limited settings and contributes to poor quality of care in maternal and child health service delivery. There is a dearth of qualitative information on the scope, contributing factors, and impact of absenteeism in Kenyan healthcare facilities.MethodsIn-depth semi-structured interviews we...
Bashangwa Mpozi, Bosco
La production du fruit de la passion en Afrique de l’Est a été accompagnée par l’adoption d’innovations endogènes dans le but de promouvoir la productivité et la génération de revenus. Ces innovations sont courantes dans les régions productrices du fruit de la passion au Burundi (Matongo et Isare), au Kenya (Embu et Meru) et au Rwanda (Nyamagabe et...
montcoudiol, nelly burnside, neil m. györe, domokos mariita, nicholas mutia, thecla boyce, adrian
wet season sampling period. This correlated with a decrease in area which suggests a lessening of water inflow and facilitates increased evaporation. Groundwaters demonstrated clear evidence of mixing between meteoric, irrigation and lake waters. These observations enhanced the understanding of the hydrological system surrounding the Menengai Calde...
neubert, dieter
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oloo, richard dooso okoth, sheila wachira, peter mutiga, samuel ochieng, phillis kago, leah nganga, fredrick entfellner, jean-baka domelevo ghimire, sita
Highly toxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus have been reported to frequently contaminate maize, causing fatal aflatoxin poisoning in Kenya. To gain insights into the environmental and genetic factors that influence toxigenicity, fungi (n = 218) that were culturally identified as A. flavus were isolated from maize grains samples (n = 120) from th...
Adewumi, Konyin Oketch, Sandra Y. Choi, Yujung Huchko, Megan J.
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BMC Women's Health
BackgroundTo be effective, population-based cervical cancer prevention programs must be tailored to meet the needs of the target population. One important factor in cervical cancer screening may include male involvement. To iteratively improve a screening program employing self-collected vaginal swabs for human-papillomavirus (HPV) testing in weste...
mutua, edna de haan, nicoline tumusiime, dan jost, christine bett, bernard
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic disease of great public health and economic importance transmitted by mosquitoes. The main method of preventing the disease is vaccination of susceptible livestock before outbreaks occur. Studies on RVF vaccines have focused on the production processes, safety, and efficacy standards but those on uptake and ado...
panek, jiri netek, rostislav
There has been an enormous technological boom that impacted all areas of geoscience in the past few decades. Part of the change was also the process of democratization of cartography as well as geographic information systems (GIS), together with new approaches that have emerged, bringing social dimension into cartography and GIS. These new approach...
