Kenya and Health
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- Setting the scene: assessing and planning with harm reduction partners
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2013
- Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) is an project spanning China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia that aims to expand coverage to more than 230,000 people who inject drugs, their partners and children, with a wide range of ...
- What is the provision of obstetric care in informal settlements in Nairobi?
- J.C. Fotso; A. Ezeh; R. Oronje / PubMed Central, 2008
- In sub-Saharan Africa, the unprecedented population growth that started in the second half of the twentieth century has evolved into unparalleled urbanisation and an increasing proportion of urban dwellers living in slums and shanty t...
- Tackling Africa's chronic disease burden: from the local to the global
- A. de-Graft Aikins; N. Unwin; C. Agyemang / Globalization and Health, 2010
- Africa faces a double burden of infectious and chronic diseases. While infectious diseases still account for at least 69% of deaths in the continent, age specific mortality rates from chronic diseases as a whole are actually higher in...
- Children Malnutrition and Horizontal Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa:A Focus on Contrasting Domestic Trajectories
- V. Garcia / United Nations Development Programme, 2012
- The positive trend observed in recent accelerated economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries represents a huge opportunity to foster sustainable development, This paper contributes to the literature by providing a more accurate ...
- Safe drinking water: who is willing to pay the price?
- C. Chapoy (ed); C. Null / International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012
- This briefing, the second issue of the Evidence Matters series, distills policy relevant evidence from a recent 3ie systematic review ‘Willingness to pay for cleaner water in less developed countries". The review summarises rese...
- Nutrition and baseline survey of older people in three refugee camps in Dadaab
- HelpAge International, 2011
- This report of a survey in camps in north-eastern Kenya shows that older people are vulnerable to malnutrition but often not recognised as such. It recommends how to measure older people’s nutritional status.
- Assessing access barriers to tuberculosis care with the Tool to Estimate Patients’ Costs: pilot results from two districts in Kenya
- V. Mauch / BMC Public Health, 2011
- The Tool to Estimate Patients’ Costs proved to be a valuable instrument to assess the costs incurred by TB patients, socioeconomic situations, health-seeking behavior patterns, concurrent illnesses such as HIV, and social and gen...
- Integrating Family Planning and HIV Services - Programs in Kenya & Ethiopia Lead the Way
- E. Scholl / US Agency for International Development, 2011
- In regions of high fertility and HIV prevalence, integration of family planning and HIV services has emerged as a promising strategy to prevent transmission of HIV, particularly from mother to child. This case study explores different...
- Trends and determinants of Comprehensive HIV and AIDS knowledge among urban young women in Kenya
- R. Ochako / AIDS Research and Therapy, 2011
- In sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya is among countries most affected by the HIV and AIDS pandemic which led to the declaration of AIDS as a national disaster in 1999. Given this scenario the study was undertaken to examine trends in HIV and ...
- How ICTs can be used in Africa to develop and deliver continuing medical education to rural healthcare workers
- S. Ntiro; J. Mrema / International Institute for Communication and Development, 2003
- This report presents some of the background materials prepare for the meeting held in April 2003 and coorganised jointly by IICD, Cordaid and CEDHA jto explore ways in which ICTs can be used to develop and deliver continuing medical e...
- Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
- Kenya's national institute for health science research
- African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya (APHRC)
- Conducts policy-relevant research on population and health in Africa
