Tuthill, Emily L Odhiambo, Belinda C Maltby, Ann E
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International breastfeeding journal
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV, which may occur in utero, during birth, or through breastmilk, is now largely preventable with the advancement of HIV testing and treatment for women and their infants. Globally, great progress has been recorded over the years, with a 58% decline in new infections in children from 2010 to 2022. Currently, Kenya ...
Forsythe, Steven Kioko, Urbanus Mahiane, Guy Glaubius, Robert Musau, Abednego Gichangi, Anthony Reed, Jason Were, Daniel
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Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Background Kenya included oral PrEP in the national guidelines as part of combination HIV prevention, and subsequently began providing PrEP to individuals who are at elevated risk of HIV infection in 2017. However, as scale-up continued, there was a recognized gap in knowledge on the cost of delivering oral PrEP. This gap limited the ability of the...
Gakinya, Samuel Mutuiri, Anderson Onyuma, Timothy Cheserem, Beverly Mogere, Edwin
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Frontiers in Medicine
The 2021 WHO classification of gliomas has separated gliomas based on their IDH mutation status, reflecting differences in their pathogenesis and clinical characteristics. There is a paucity of data on the prevalence of IDH mutations in gliomas in this region. This study aimed to determine the frequency of the IDH1 mutation in adult-type diffuse as...
Gichangi, Peter B. Byrne, Meagan E. Thiongo, Mary N. Waithaka, Michael Devoto, Bianca Gummerson, Elizabeth Wood, Shannon N. Anglewicz, Philip Decker, Michele R.
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
Objective To report on the mental health status of adolescents and youth in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nairobi County, Kenya. Methodology This was a mixed-methods study with cross-sectional quantitative and qualitative components conducted in Nairobi County, Kenya from August to September 2020. The quantitative survey involved phone inter...
Roche, Stephanie D. Ekwunife, Obinna I. Mendonca, Rouella Kwach, Benn Omollo, Victor Zhang, Shengruo Ongwen, Patricia Hattery, David Smedinghoff, Sam Morris, Sarah
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Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction HIV self-testing (HIVST) is highly sensitive and specific, addresses known barriers to HIV testing (such as stigma), and is recommended by the World Health Organization as a testing option for the delivery of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Nevertheless, HIVST remains underutilized as a diagnostic tool in community-based, differen...
Njoki, Carolyne Simiyu, Nabukwangwa Kaddu, Ronnie Mwangi, Wambui Sulemanji, Demet Oduor, Peter Dona, Dilanthi Gamage Otieno, Dorothy Abonyo, Teddy Thaddeus Wangeci, Patricia
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Critical Care Explorations
OBJECTIVES: To describe clinical, management, and outcome features of critically ill patients admitted to ICUs and high-dependency units (HDUs) in Kenya. DESIGN: Prospective registry-based observational study. SETTING: Three HDUs and eight ICUs in Kenya. PATIENTS: Consecutive adult patients admitted between January 2021 and June 2022. INTERVENTIONS...
Okumu, Thomas Opiyo
This paper seeks to explore the significance and impact of malaria on Kenya’s economic growth. This will help to understand the impact that malaria has or have had on household economic status especially for the vulnerable population in Kenya and how it has been unfolding slowly over time. This will also seek to understand the coping strategies ado...
Kapulu, Melissa C. Muthumbi, Esther Otieno, Edward Rossi, Omar Ferruzzi, Pietro Necchi, Francesca Acquaviva, Alessandra Martin, Laura B. Orindi, Benedict Mwai, Kennedy
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Frontiers in Immunology
Background Shigellosis mainly affects children under 5 years of age living in low- and middle-income countries, who are the target population for vaccination. There are, however, limited data available to define the appropriate timing for vaccine administration in this age group. Information on antibody responses following natural infection, proxy ...
Mungo, Chemtai Orango, Omenge Ofner, Susan Musick, Beverly Yiannoutsos, Constantin Brown, Darron Wools-Kaloustian, Kara Semeere, Aggrey Cohen, Craig
PURPOSE: To achieve the WHO cervical cancer elimination targets, countries globally must achieve 70% cervical cancer screening (CCS) coverage. We evaluated CCS uptake and predictors of screening positive at two public HIV care programs in western Kenya. METHODS: From October 2007 to February 2019, data from the Family AIDS Care and Education Servic...
Mikulic, Nadja Uyoga, Mary A Stoffel, Nicole U Derrien, Muriel Nyilima, Suzane Kostopoulos, Ioannis Roeselers, Guus Chenoll, Empar Mwasi, Edith Pironaci, Giulia
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The American journal of clinical nutrition
Iron fortificants tend to be poorly absorbed and may adversely affect the gut, especially in African children. We assessed the effects of prebiotic galacto-oligosaccharides/fructo-oligosaccharides (GOS/FOS) on iron absorption and gut health when added to iron-fortified infant cereal. We randomly assigned Kenyan infants (n = 191) to receive daily fo...
