Kenya and Health
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- Nature or nurture? Child survival after the death of a sibling
- Sian Curtis; Fiona Steele / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Why do children have a lower chance of survival if one of their brothers or sisters has died? Are biological or cultural factors responsible for this phenomenon? Research by Macro International, USA and the UK University of Southampto...
- Net loss? Mosquito nets and malaria in African children
- Robert Snow / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- All children who live in an endemic area become infected with malaria at some time. They gain immunity with each infection, which reduces their risk of severe malaria as they grow older. Insecticide-treated mosquito nets are used to r...
- Double speak on reproductive health Triumph of politics over science?
- Susannah Mayhew; Lousiana Lush / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Coping with the AIDS pandemic calls for a unified strategic response from health managers and policy makers. A central tenet of the International Conference on Population and Development was that reproductive health services (family p...
- Collection of case studies of HIV/AIDS
- B. Makinwa; M. O’Grady / Family Health International, 2001
- This collection of work is centred on HIV/AIDS prevention in the non-industrialised world and is based on studies performed by FHI's international and local partners in an international HIV prevention, the AIDS Control and Prevention ...
- How does ethinic inequality affect child health in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- M. Brockerhoff; P. Hewett / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000
- Accounts by journalists of wars in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s have raised concern that ethnic cleavages and overlapping religious and racial affiliations may widen the inequalities in health and survival amon...
- SATELLIFE pilot tests the viability of handheld computers for healthcare in Africa
- Bridges.org, 2003
- The goal of the SATELLIFE Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) Project was to demonstrate the viability of handheld computers -- also called Personal Digital Assistants or PDAs -- for addressing the digital divide among health profession...
- Using dietary diversity as an indicator of household food access
- J. Hoddinott; Y. Yohannes / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
- Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access. It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, K...
- TRIPS, HIV/AIDS and access to medicine in East Africa
- U. A. Mwalimu / Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2002
- What has the impact of the TRIPs agreement been in East Africa? This study examines how patent protection relates to the overall promotion and protection of human rights, and socio-economic rights, in particular. The author concentrat...
- HIV/AIDS affects all children and policymakers should broaden their scope
- G. Cornia / UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001
- This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children. The study is based on nine country case studies - six in Africa and three in Asia - and a review of five key areas:...
- Most African NGOs rely too heavily on their founders and have limited accountability to donors and beneficiaries
- Centre for African Family Studies, Kenya, 2002
- Results of study commissioned by the Centre for African Family Studies and the Task Force on NGO Partnerships to examine the classification, leadership, governance and management of NGOs in Africa. This exploratory study was carried o...
- 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
