Shumba, Constance S. Kiraithe, Peterson Kambo, Isabel Shaibu, Sheila
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Frontiers in Public Health
Background Vaccination was a key measure in the COVID-19 pandemic response, though much work was needed to promote vaccine uptake and acceptance. In Kenya, Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) played a key role in vaccine education and promotion. We conducted this study to explore CHVs’ experiences of implementing COVID-19 vaccine education and promo...
Bashir, Munira Anyonge Wanyonyi, Edwin
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Frontiers in Conservation Science
Kenya’s conservation areas consist of national parks and reserves, national forests, and private and community wildlife conservancies. The historically protected areas only account for 10% of Kenya’s land mass (national parks, reserves, and protected forests). Conserving Kenya’s biodiversity referred to as a “national heritage” is at the core of th...
Mwenda, Valerian Murage, David Kilonzo, Catherine Bor, Joan-Paula Njiri, Patricia Osiro, Lance Nyangasi, Mary Arbyn, Marc Tummers, Philippe Temmerman, Marleen
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Frontiers in Oncology
Background Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Kenya. In the context of the Global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem, Kenya is currently implementing screening and treatment scale-up. For effectively tracking the scale-up, a baseline assessment of cervical cancer sc...
Schrieks, Teun Botzen, W J Wouter Haer, Toon Wasonga, Oliver V Aerts, Jeroen C J H
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Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
The Horn of Africa Drylands are increasingly experiencing severe droughts, which impose a threat on traditional livelihood strategies. Understanding adaptation behavior in rural communities is key to helping reduce the impact of these droughts. We investigate adaptation behavior by assessing four established economic and social psychological theori...
Mzungu, Richard Makokha, Godfrey Fondo, Esther Siljander, Mika Mueni, Elizabeth Kiilu, Benedict
Aim: This study focused on Chaceon somaliensis, a species in the Geryonid family, which is commonly found in the Horn of Africa. The species has global commercial value, yet little is known about it. The study adds to our understanding of the species by identifying its distribution, population structure, and fisheries potential in the Kenyan Coast....
Nakphong, Michelle Afulani, Patience Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram Opot, James Sudhinaraset, May
BACKGROUND: Despite research that has shown that the presence of support persons during maternity care is associated with more respectful care, support persons are frequently excluded due to facility practices or negative attitudes of providers. Little quantitative research has examined how integrating support persons in maternity care has implicat...
Swarthout, Jenna Mureithi, Maryanne Mboya, John Arnold, Benjamin Wolfe, Marlene Dentz, Holly Lin, Audrie Arnold, Charles Rao, Gouthami Stewart, Christine
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Combined water, sanitation, and handwashing (WSH) interventions could reduce fecal contamination along more transmission pathways than single interventions alone. We measured Escherichia coli levels in 3909 drinking water samples, 2691 child hand rinses, and 2422 toy ball rinses collected from households enrolled in a 2-year cluster-randomized cont...
Balakrishnan, Anna K. Otieno, Stephanie Dzombo, Millicent Plaxico, LaNae Ukoh, Ebuka Obara, Lena Moraa Brown, Haley Musyimi, Christine Lincoln, Chloe Yang, Lyla Sunyoung
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Frontiers in Public Health
Climate change is expected to profoundly impact health and coping and widen social and environmental inequalities. People living in informal settlements are especially vulnerable to climate change as they are often located in ecologically sensitive areas more susceptible to extreme weather events (EWEs), such as floods, droughts, and heat waves. Wo...
Saravanan, V. Subramanian
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Frontiers in Sustainability
Worldwide countries are engaged in technological improvements, changes in legislation, economic incentives, strengthened administrative structures, and political strategies to allocate and distribute water among different sections of the population. These macro measures treat water as an object of social, cultural, and environmental production unit...
Petek-Sargeant, Nik Tiren, Wilson Nakure, Glen Keis, Maurine Gachihi, Njeri
The years between 1900 and 2000 brought immense changes to Kenya and its people that included colonial occupation and violence, opposition to pastoralist lifestyles and local traditions, and independence. In 1900, colonialists were increasing their influence and caravans from the Swahili coast were travelling across Kenya looking for ivory, animal ...
