Kenya and Health
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- Coping with prime age adult AIDS-related illness and death
- C. Desmond; K. Michael; J. Gow / Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
- This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath. It e...
- How additional money from debt relief might be used to improve health conditions in Kenya
- P. K. Kimalu / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-rela...
- What can be done to improve the status of HIV/AIDS affected children in Kenya?
- Human Rights Watch, 2001
- This article explores the problem of HIV/AIDS among the childhood population in Kenya. The article finds that: HIV prevalence in the population of Kenya increased steadily and consistently by about 1 percentage p...
- When and where to intervene
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000
- This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS. Impacts include: people infected with HIV/AIDS are frequently unable to work for increasingly long periods of time, u...
- Improving impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa
- P. Bonnard / Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 1999
- Study provides information on program and policy options. The findings and recommendations are based on an extensive review of the literature as well as interviews with researchers, USAID managers and other development and donor organ...
- Focusing on women works: research on improving micronutrient status through food-based interventions
- C. Johnson-Welch / International Center for Research on Women, USA, 1999
- Synthesis of five studies, undertaken in Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand, included intervention trails and measurement of impacts. The results suggest that it is possible to increase the effectiveness of micronutr...
- Why AIDS orphans are frequently left with limited or no resources
- HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
- The socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are felt in a growing number of countries and increasing mortality rates among adults are threatening economic and social well-being. This study looks at the status, need...
- 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
