Kenya and Health
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- National ICT policies in member countries of the IST-Africa Initiative
- IST-Africa Initiative, 2012
- This guide looks at the current status of National ICT policies in each of the current IST-Africa Initiative partner countries. It identifies what has been achieved to date and provides insight into what implementation challenge...
- HIV and fertility in Africa
- Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
- This "Studies of HIV in African communities 'Highlights'", which was produced by IDS Knowledge Services with partners in the ALPHA Network, includes findings and recommendations around the topic of fertility in African communities aff...
- Drought and famine in the Horn of Africa
- S. Loewenberg / The Lancet, 2011
- This report describes the crisis from Kenya’s refugee camps and Wajir in the north, as millions of people in the Horn of Africa are affected by the devastating drought and famine. The famine in Somalia that has sent a tide of re...
- Experiences from sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS
- Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
- The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change. Development actors are paying...
- HIV related human rights violations against people living with HIV in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia
- Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, 2010
- This multi-country study documents HIV related human rights violations against people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. Specifically, the authors document stigma and discrimination among PLHIV, the level of involve...
- Sexual health and HIV: New reports highlight how research can make an impact
- Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
- As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy. This publication is a supplement of the ...
- The African Union estimates that 27 percent of Africans are undernourished, a 2 percent decline since 1995
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Halving hunger and extreme poverty by 2015 is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). However, persistent hunger is still prevalent worldwide, slowing progress towards all other MDGs, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
- Studies on health and well-being among people aged 50 years and over in eight countries in Africa and Asia
- Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
- Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health...
- Reasons behind varying stunting outcomes between families in the Lake Victoria region, Kenya
- J. Grab; J. Priebe (ed) / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
- The combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes of this paradox for the K...
- Preventing gender based violence in Kenya
- J. Crichton; C. N. Musembi; A. Ngugi / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- Intimate-partner violence involves multiple violations of sexual and reproductive rights, with devastating impacts on the health and wellbeing of those affected. This paper from the Institute of Development Studies details the results...
- 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
