Dromedary camels have coexisted with humans throughout civilizations providing versatile life-sustaining benefits and serving as heritage in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa belt. Like other livestock that show close resilience to harsh environmental conditions, camelids suffer from tropical diseases, which jeopardize their productivity...
Published in The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings
The need for communication-related services in sub-Saharan Africa to support individuals experiencing communication disability is a longstanding and well-documented situation. We posit the inequities highlighted by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) make this a relevant time for speech language therapists and the professional bodies that govern us...
Published in International Journal for Equity in Health
BackgroundHealth care workers in Kenya have launched major strikes in the public health sector in the past decade but the impact of strikes on health systems is under-explored. We conducted a qualitative study to investigate maternal and child health care and services during nationwide strikes by health care workers in 2017 from the perspective of ...
Published in South African Journal of Sports Medicine
Background Injuries related to endurance running have attracted attention as the sport has become more competitive, and as athletes seek to improve their performance. Consequently, endurance runners are increasingly becoming more susceptible to lower extremity running injuries. Objectives The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of run...
Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2020-
In this contribution to the special issue on Fakery in Africa, I examine the booming “fake essay” industry and draw on the role and perspectives increasingly occupied by of tens of thousands of young and highly-educated Kenyans. These so-called “Shadow Scholars” are part of a vast global online marketplace, an invisible knowledge production economy...
Published in Open Geosciences
The Umba River basin is one of the smaller-scale hydrological basins in the East African region. It traverses two countries, with its catchment in the Usambara mountains in Tanzania, while it drains its waters to the Indian Ocean in Vanga, Kenya. The chemical and mineralogical compositions of the riverbank and bottom sediments of the Umba River wer...
Published in Supportive Care in Cancer
Introduction Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients have several unmet needs. The needs and quality of life of MBC women living in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are understudied. Facilitating the interaction of various caregivers is beneficial in addressing the needs. Internet-based resources play an important role in reaching out to these patients. We...
Published in SSM. Mental health
Background: Men’s alcohol misuse does not occur in a vacuum but has a cascade of consequences for families and children, with ties to violence, poor parenting, and poor partner and child mental health. Despite the intersection of individual and interpersonal problems associated with men’s alcohol use, studies exploring the impact of men’s completio...
Published in Trials
BackgroundUniversal Health Coverage ensures access to quality health services for all, with no financial hardship when accessing the needed services. Nevertheless, access to quality health services is marred by substantial resource shortages creating service delivery gaps in low-and middle-income countries, including Kenya. The Innovative Partnersh...
Published in eLife
Understanding the dynamics of infection and carriage of typhoid in endemic settings is critical to finding solutions to prevention and control. In a 3-year case-control study, we investigated typhoid among children aged
