Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions
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Poverty reduction and the HIV / AIDS epidemic in Kenya:What are the core issues
(University of NairobiDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Medicine,, 2000)The government of Kenya has recently attempted to develop a national budget that gives priority to two pertinent constraints to national development efforts. These are poverty and HIV/AIDS. The poor are those members of ... -
A simulation of the transmission of HIV and AIDS in regional populations within the United Kingdom
(1994)"The spread of HIV-1 in the United Kingdom is simulated by a model which integrates behavioural and epidemiological processes within a multi-regional population projection framework and represents the spatial heterogeneities ... -
24-hr Variation In Synaptosomal Tryptophan-5- Hydroxylase Activity In The Rat Brain
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Plasmodium falciparum malaria
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Effect of temperature and cardiopulmonary bypass on the pharmacokinetics of remifentanil
(1997)Sixteen patients undergoing coronary revascularization requiring cardiopulmonary bypass received remifentanil 2 micrograms kg-1 or 5 micrograms kg-1 by infusion over 1 min after sternotomy but before commencing cardiopulmonary ... -
Typhoid fever and the Widal test
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Breastfeeding in women with HIV
(University of Nairobi.Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Univeristy of Nairobi, Kenya, 2000-08)No Abstract Available -
Effects Of Chronic Administration Of Mianserin And Clomipramine Of Tryptophan Hydroxylase Activity In The Rat Brain
(University of NairobiDepartment of Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy, 1986)The activity of tryptophan hydroxylase was measured in the rat brainstem and cortex by the rate of in vivo accumulation of 5-hydroxytryptophan after inhibition of aromatic amino acid decarboxylase with 3-hydroxybenzyl-hydrazine. ... -
The estimation of population microdata by using data from small area statistics and samples of anonymised records
(1998)"Traditionally, estimates of the number of people in small areas (the smallest geographical units for which data are available) have been disaggregated only by age and sex. More recently, much research effort has been ... -
What do you want from the 2001 census? Results of an ESRC/JISC survey of user views
(1998)"The author describes the results of a survey of user views about the next Census of Population in the United Kingdom, to be held in 2001. Some 140 respondents reported their views, which included strong support for a ... -
Methods for estimating missing data on migrants in the 1991 British census
(1997)"This paper discusses the use of suppression to protect data in the Special Migration Statistics, a dataset produced from the 1991 [British] Census, and argues that this procedure prevents accurate analysis of the data. A ... -
Maternal SDF1 3'A polymorphism is associated with increased perinatal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 transmission
(University of Nairobi.Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Univeristy of Nairobi, Kenya, 2000-07)Genetic polymorphisms in chemokine and chemokine receptor genes influence susceptibility to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and disease progression, but little is known regarding the association between ... -
Cholera [editorial]
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Milk
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Purification and partial characterisation of goat placental IgG: A possible model for the study of human maternal-foetal interaction
(Department of Biochemistry, University of Nairobi,, 2000)Viviparous pregnancy in vertebrates is a major immunological puzzle. Ideally the maternal immune system should reject the foetus, which is antigenically different by virtue of its compliment of paternal genes and proteins. ... -
The efficacy of pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (Fansidar) in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Kenyan children
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HIV/AIDS: the first 25 years--a view from Nairobi
(2008)HIV infections are zoonoses occurring in communities that hunt chimpanzees (HIV 1) and sooty mangabeys (HIV 2) in the forests of equatorial and West Africa respectively. Most cross species transmission to man probably ... -
The estimation of mortality for ethnic groups at local scale within the United Kingdom
(2009)As an input to projections of sub-national populations by ethnicity, this paper develops the first estimates of the mortality risks experienced by the UK ethnic groups. Two estimates were developed using alternative methods. ...
