Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions
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Factors Affecting The Utilization Of Family Planning Methods In Kisii/Nyamira District In Kenya
(School of Nursing, 1991)The purpose of this study was to investigate contraceptive prevalence in Kisii/Nyamira district in the Republic of Kenya and on the basis of the results obtained develop a policy framework for use in family planning ... -
Some Of The Factors That Are Associated With Malnutrition - A Study Of Mwea Family Life Training Centre, Kirinyaga District
(School of Nursing, 1994)No abstract available -
Concordant proficiency in measurement of T-cell immunity in human immunodeficiency virus vaccine clinical trials by peripheral blood mononuclear cell and enzyme-linked immunospot assays in laboratories from three continents.
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Control Of Infection During Surgery On A Patient With HIV Infection
(School of Nursing, 2000)No abstract available -
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Global warming and the emergence of ancient pathogens in Canada’s arctic regions
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Teenage Motherhood In North Kisii District, Kenya
(School of Nursing, 2005)Teenage pregnancy affects millions of girls every year worldwide and is extremely common in Africa. Teenage pregnancy reflects a pattern f sexual activity which not only puts teenagers at risk of pregnancy but also of ... -
HIV/AIDS and Debt Crises: Threat to human survival in Sub‐Saharan Africa*
(Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2003)Whether originating from the African primates in the Central African forest, or from polio vaccine trials by some western scientists, there is no doubt that HIV/AIDS poses the greatest single challenge to the marginalized ... -
Issues around HIV-1 diagnosis
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Transmitted HIV Type 1 Drug Resistance Among Individuals with Recent HIV Infection in East and Southern Africa
(University of nairobiCollege of health science, 2010)To characterize WHO-defined transmitted HIV drug resistance mutation (TDRM) data from recently HIV-infected African volunteers, we sequenced HIV (pol) and evaluated for TDRM the earliest available specimens from ARV-naive ... -
Safety and Immunogenicity Study of Multiclade HIV-1 Adenoviral Vector Vaccine Alone or as Boost following a Multiclade HIV-1 DNA Vaccine in Africa
(University of nairobiCollege of health science, 2010)Abstract BACKGROUND: We conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase I study of a recombinant replication-defective adenovirus type 5 (rAd5) vector expressing HIV-1 Gag and Pol from subtype B and Env ... -
Postpartum depression: what do midwives know?
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Viral Inhibition Assay: A CD8 T-cell neutralization assay for use in clinical trials of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 vaccine candidates
(University of nairobiCollege of health science, 2010)We have characterized an assay measuring CD8 T cell-mediated inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 replication, demonstrating specificity and reproducibility and employing a panel of primary HIV-1 isolates. ... -
Gender and policy analysis tools for the health sector in vision 2030
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International seroepidemiology of adenovirus serotypes 5, 26, 35, and 48 in pediatric and adult populations
(University of NairobiCollege of health science, 2011)Recombinant adenovirus serotype 5 (rAd5) vaccine vectors for HIV-1 and other pathogens have been shown to be limited by high titers of Ad5 neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) in the developing world. Alternative serotype rAd ... -
Cross-reactive cytotoxic T lymphocytes against a HIV-1 p24 epitope in slow progressors with B*57.
(College of Health Sciences,, 2007-05)OBJECTIVES: To determine whether CD8 T lymphocytes from HIV-1-infected patients expressing B*5701 and B*5703 show broad cross-reactivity against different variants of a conserved p24 epitope, which might account for the ... -
Human leukocyte antigen variants B*44 and B*57 are consistently favorable during two distinct phases of primary HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africans with several viral subtypes
(University of nairobiCollege of health science, 2011)As part of an ongoing study of early human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in sub-Saharan African countries, we have identified 134 seroconverters (SCs) with distinct acute-phase (peak) and early chronic-phase ... -
HIV transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa occurs through sex
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Cross-clade HIV-1-specific neutralizing IgA in mucosal and systemic compartment of HIV-1-exposed, persistently seronegative subjects.
(University of Nairobi,College of Health Sciences,, 2002)
