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Factors Associated With an Increase in Caesarean Section Births in Kenya: Evidence From 2014 Kenya Demographic Health Surveys
(University of Nairobi, 2022)This study set out to examine factors associated with the increase in caesarean sections in Kenya. Using data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS-2014), However in order to show trends in C-Section, data ... -
Female Education and Economic Growth: Evidence From Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Education has long been considered to be a significant contributor to economic growth. Kenya's Vision 2030 envisages social transformation through education and training. The Government of Kenya has consistently allocated ... -
Enhancing Named Entity Recognition in Low Resource Domains Using Deep Transfer Learning: a Case of Rt&b Crop Diseases in Scientific and Online Text
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Named Entity Recognition (NER) is important in fields where researchers have to review large amounts of scientific text, such as plant pathology. However, NER is especially difficult in low-resource domains, for ... -
Application of Geostatistics to Mineral Resource Modelling and Estimation: Case Study of Gofolo Hill Iron Ore Deposit, Western Liberia
(University of Nairobi, 2023)The Gofolo Hill deposit, situated over a regional northwest trending shear zone (Todi Shear Zone) on the margin of the Archean West African craton, occurs in one of Liberia's historic iron ore mining districts notable for ... -
Strategic Operations Management and Performance of Petroleum Marketing Firms in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)The main objective was to establish the relationship between strategic operation management and performance of oil marketing firms in Kenya. The specific objectives were to establish the strategic operations management ... -
The Effect of Government Sectoral Expenditure on Poverty Reduction in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)The study aimed to examine the correlation between public sectoral spending and its effect on poverty reduction in the Kenyan set up. Poverty remains to be a global phenomenon and no country is insusceptible to the menace ... -
Determinants of Adoption of Micro-services in Digital Banking Solutions Among Commercial Banks in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Microservices architecture is a major trend in software development presently. It promotes the componentization concept where a single application is broken down to small and independent services. This study was founded ... -
Brand Equity and Consumer Purchase Intention of Branded Coffee Among Supermarket Customers in Nairobi County
(University of Nairobi, 2023)The proliferation of brands, increased competition and globalization of markets presents customers with a wide range of brands when making purchasing decisions. Firms have to rethink their branding decisions. The study ... -
Strategic Innovation and Growth of Firms in the Real Estate Industry in Nairobi Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)This research paper investigates the impact of strategic innovation to growth dynamics of real estate firms in Nairobi, Kenya. Firms in Nairobi's real estate sector have difficulty sustaining growth while keeping a strategic ... -
Socio–economic Determinants of National Health Insurance Fund Membership in the Informal Sector:a Case Study of Kitui West Sub-county, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Most nations have failed to provide their citizens with accessible and high-quality health care. National and international treaties have been ratified with little if any success as a result of this. In Kenya, against ... -
Seroprevalence and related risk factors of Brucella spp. in livestock and humans in Garbatula subcounty, Isiolo county, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: Brucellosis is a neglected zoonotic disease that affects both animals and humans, causing debilitating illness in humans and socio-economic losses in livestock-keeping households globally. The disease is endemic ... -
Health care seeking behaviors and perspective on indigenous palliative care among cancer patients in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Introduction: Holistic integrated community palliative care services remain a mirage to cancer patients. Nonetheless, a number of cancer patients are jamming traditional medicinal places seeking therapy. The results of ... -
Whenever you need support, you first turn to the group": motivations and functions of WhatsApp groups for youth living with HIV
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Social support is a critical component of achieving positive health outcomes for youth living with HIV (YLWH). Mobile health (mHealth) has significant potential for providing social support to YLWH. However, little is known ... -
Policies and resources for strengthening of emergency and critical care services in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Critical illnesses cause several million deaths annually, with many of these occurring in low-resource settings like Kenya. Great efforts have been made worldwide to scale up critical care to reduce deaths from COVID-19. ... -
Placental characteristics and neonatal weights among women with malaria-preeclampsia comorbidity and healthy pregnancies
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: Malaria and preeclampsia are leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute significantly to poor perinatal outcomes like low neonatal weight by causing considerable ... -
Age and CD4+ T cell counts are inversely associated with HIV drug resistance mutations in treatment naive female sex workers
(University of Nairobi, 2023)The increasing prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) drug resistance mutations (HIVDRM) in untreated seropositive persons has consequences for future treatment options. This is extremely important in key populations ... -
Seroprevalence of Taenia saginata Cysts in Cattle, Human Hospital Cases, and Risk Factors for Human Taeniasis in Kajiado County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Taenia saginata is a zoonotic tapeworm that causes diseases in cattle and humans. A cross-sectional survey was conducted between June and July 2021 in Kajiado County, Kenya, to estimate the seroprevalence of Taenia saginata ... -
Impact of HIV and peripartum period on Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection detection
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: Pregnancy and HIV may influence TB infection (TBI) detection using interferon gamma-release assays (QFT-Plus) and tuberculin skin tests (TST). Methods: Participants from antenatal clinics in Western Kenya ... -
A Response to Article "Do Mesenchymal Stem Cells Influence Keloid Recurrence?" [Response to Letter]
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
