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The use of non-standard motorcycle helmets in low-and middle-income countries: a multicentre study
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2013-06-01)
The use of non-standard motorcycle helmets has the potential to undermine multinational efforts aimed at reducing the burden of road traffic injuries associated with motorcycle crashes. However, little is known about the ...
Pattern of pedestrian injuries in the city of Nairobi: implications for urban safety planning
(Springer US, 2013-10-01)
Pedestrians are overrepresented in road traffic injuries and deaths in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, yet little research has been done to provide better understanding of the characteristics of pedestrian injuries. ...
EBNA-1 specific effector T cell deletion associated with holoendemic malaria exposure in the etiology of endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma (P3063)
(American Association of Immunologists, 2013-05-01)
Etiological mechanism of eBL remain largely unknown despite long-standing
epidemiological link between malaria and EBV co-infection. Age-dependent deficiency in
EBV-specific CD8+ T cell-mediated IFN-γ immunosurveillance ...
Factors in the management of feeding in nursery school children as perceived by their mothers in rural Bondo County, Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2013-11-15)
The effects of malnutrition on health status and survival of children has been the
subject of extensive research for several decades. Malnutrition affects physical growth,
cognitive development of children, morbidity ...
Modelling the Impact of Misdiagnosis and Treatment on the Dynamics of Malaria Concurrent and Co-infection with Pneumonia
(2013)
Incidences of misdiagnosis of diseases with similar symptoms as malaria has
increased lately due to the increasing levels of endemicity of these diseases and their co-
infection with malaria. In this paper a mathematical ...
(− 7402 T/G and-4729G/A) condition susceptibility to pediatric severe malarial anemia but not circulating IL-13 levels
(Bio Med Central, 2013)
In holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission areas such as western Kenya, severe
malarial anemia [SMA, hemoglobin (Hb)< 6.0 g/dL, with any density parasitemia] is the most
common clinical manifestation of severe ...
CD4+ Cell Response to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ARTS) In Routine Clinical Care Over One Year Period in a Cohort of HAART Naive, HIV Positive Kenyan Patients
(AJOL, 2013)
Background: Untreated HIV/AIDS leads to severe immune depletion with opportunistic
infections and other co-morbidities. Highly active anti-retroviral ...
Prevalence of food insecurity in patients with diabetes in western Kenya.
(Wiley, 2013)
Aims
To determine the characteristics of patients with diabetes who reported food insecurity at three diabetes clinics in western Kenya.
Methods
This study includes routinely collected demographic data at the first ...
Disclosing HIV Serostatus to sexual partners among HIV infected women in KisiI DistricT, Kenya: A qualitative study
(The African Journal of Health Sciences,, 2013)
Study objective: As the rates of HIV infection continues to soar in many parts of the world, concerted efforts have been mounted on counseling to help HIV infected individuals disclose their serostatus to their sexual ...
Effectiveness of Out-patient Therapeutic Program on Nutrition among Under Fives: A Retrospective Study of Kisumu East District, Kenya
(2013)
Abstract Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) has been implemented with great success.
Monitoring and evaluation against program objectives is integral. This study aimed to assess
effectiveness of OTP program in Kisumu ...