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Factors Associated With Teenage Pregnancy Among Sexually Active Girls in Malindi Subcounty: a Mixed-method Study
(University of Nairobi, 2024)Background: Adolescence is a period characterized by experimentation. Teenagers get involved in high risk behavior such as unprotected sex which leads to unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions and STIs/HIV. It is ... -
Prevalence of Malaria and Associated Factors Among Febrile Children Aged 5years and Below at Banadir Hospital, Somalia
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: Malaria is a tropical disease which is caused by protozoa plasmodium species. The most vulnerable are children under five in tropical and sub-tropical areas such as Somalia. The frequency of malaria in Somalia ... -
Energetic costs of social dominance in wild male baboons
(University of Nairobi, 2025)In vertebrates, glucocorticoids can be upregulated in response to both psychosocial and energetic stressors, making it difficult to identify the cause of elevated glucocorticoid concentrations when both types of stressors ... -
The Bacterial and pathogenic landscape of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) whole blood and serum from Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2025)Background: African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a significant reservoir host for many zoonotic and parasitic infections in Africa. These include a range of viruses and pathogenic bacteria, such as tick-borne rickettsial ... -
Sexual Violence, Genital Cytokines, and Colposcopy Findings: A Cross-Sectional Study of Women Engaged in Sex Work in Mombasa, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2025)Background: Sexual violence (SV) increases human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) susceptibility in a sustained manner. This study evaluated genital cytokines and colposcopy findings in women reporting both recent and more ... -
Inheritance of resistance to maize lethal necrosis in tropical maize inbred lines
(University of Nairobi, 2025-01-09)Maize (Zea mays L.) production in sub-Saharan Africa can be improved by using hybrids with genetic resistance to maize lethal necrosis (MLN). This study aimed to assess the general (GCA) and specific combining ability ... -
Complex tissue regeneration in Lophuromys reveals a phylogenetic signal for enhanced regenerative ability in deomyine rodents
(University of Nairobi, 2024-12-30)Identifying why complex tissue regeneration is present or absent in specific vertebrate lineages has remained elusive. One also wonders whether the isolated examples where regeneration is observed represent cases of ... -
Without a man's decision, nothing works": Building resilience to Rift Valley fever in pastoralist communities in Isiolo Kenya
(UON, 2025-01-28)Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a zoonotic disease that affects both livestock and humans. Men and women in pastoralist communities are vulnerable to RVF risk exposure because of their different roles and reliance on livestock ... -
Study protocol for a multi-center stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial to explore the usability and outcomes among young people living with HIV in Kiambu and Kirinyaga counties of Kenya, using an online health portal
(University of Nairobi, 2025)While the incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is decreasing in most age groups worldwide, it is rising among adolescents and young adults, who also face a higher rate of HIV-related deaths. This ... -
Bacterial vaginosis is associated with transcriptomic changes but not higher concentrations of cervical leukocytes in a study of women at high risk for HIV acquisition
(Bacterial vaginosis is associated with transcriptomic changes but not higher concentrations of cervical leukocytes in a study of women at high risk for HIV acquisition, 2025)Background: The association between bacterial vaginosis (BV) and increased HIV acquisition risk may be related to concentrations of HIV-susceptible immune cells in the cervix. Methods: Participants (31 with BV and 30 ... -
Challenges faced by community health volunteers in offering sexual and reproductive health care services to young women during the COVID-19 pandemic in Khwisero and Nairobi in Kenya
(UON, 2025)Introduction: Community health volunteers (CHVs) are fundamental in many health systems across the globe. In Kenya, CHVs were essential in providing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services during the COVID-19 pandemic. ... -
Iodine Deficiency Disorders in Kapenguria: a Urinary Iodine Estimation
(UON, 2025)Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) are known to be a potential problem for billions of people living in the highland areas of Africa and Asia. One method of determining the severity of IDD in a region is to determine the ... -
Distinct immune profiles in children living with HIV based on timing and duration of suppressive antiretroviral treatment
(UON, 2024)Timely initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) remains a major challenge in the effort to treat children living with HIV (“CLH”) and little is known regarding the dynamics of immune normalization following ART in CLH ... -
Suboptimal glycemic control and prevalence of diabetes-related complications in Kenyan population with diabetes: cohort analysis of the seventh wave of the International Diabetes Management Practices Study (IDMPS) Author links open overlay panel
(University of Nairobi, 2021-06-30)Aim To identify real-life medical practices in the management of diabetes mellitus (DM) in the Kenyan population. Methods Kenyan subjects with DM were recruited as part of the 7th wave of the International Diabetes ... -
Prevalence of Abnormal Umbilical Arterial Flow on Doppler Ultrasound in Low‑risk and Unselected Pregnant Women: a Systematic Review
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Background: While Doppler ultrasound screening is beneficial for women with high-risk pregnancies, there is insufficient evidence on its benefits and harms in low- and unselected-risk pregnancies. This may be related to ... -
Clinical Profile and Treatment of Multiple Myeloma at a Tertiary Hospital in Kenya: A Five-Year Retrospective Review
(University of Nairobi, 2024)Background. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a chronic B-cell malignancy that involves proliferation of neoplastic clonal plasma cells in the bone marrow with circulating monoclonal immunoglobulins or constituent chains in serum ... -
Bacterial isolation and antibiotic susceptibility from diabetic foot ulcers in Kenya using microbiological tests and comparison with RT-PCR in detection of S. aureus and MRSA
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Objectives Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) often lead to hospital admissions, amputations and deaths; however, there is no up-to-date information on microbial isolates from DFUs and no mention of utilization of molecular ... -
Status of New HIV Infections Among Infants Born of HIV Positive Mothers on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya
(2018)Introduction: The goal of Prevention of Mother to child Transmission (PMTCT) is to minimize new HIV infection with PMTCT interventions which can reduce to as low as 2%. Gusii region is number 5 among counties that contribute ... -
The impact of tuberculosis-induced hyperglycemia on pulmonary microbiota and airway mucus secretion in individuals not previously diabetic: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
(PLOS ONE, 2025-01-13)The lung environment harbours a community of microbes that play a significant role in health and disease, including innate protection against pathogenic microorganisms. Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, psychological ... -
Histomorphometric features of placentae from women having malaria and HIV coinfection with preterm births
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: Malaria and HIV are associated with preterm births possibly due to partial maternal vascular malperfusion resulting from altered placental angiogenesis. There is a paucity of data describing structural changes ...
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