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Maternal and perinatal health research priorities beyond 2015: an international survey and prioritization exercise.
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)Maternal mortality has declined by nearly half since 1990, but over a quarter million women still die every year of causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Maternal-health related targets are falling short of the 2015 ... -
Diversity in education: Kenyan sign language as a medium of instruction in schools for the deaf in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)In Kenya, the only official document that deals with the use of mother tongue (MT) in Schools is the 1967 Gachathi report. The report has clear-cut guidance and policy regarding MT use by the hearing children. However, for ... -
Measuring household vulnerability to climate-induced stresses in pastoral rangelands of Kenya: Implications for resilience programming.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)This study uses statistical and econometric tools to measure households’ vulnerability in pastoral range lands of Kenya. It considered 27 socioeconomic and biophysical indicators obtained from 302 households’ in-depth ... -
Mesalazine in the initial management of severely acutely malnourished children with environmental enteric dysfunction: a pilot randomized controlled trial
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an acquired syndrome of impaired gastrointestinal mucosal barrier function that is thought to play a key role in the pathogenesis of stunting in early life. It has ... -
Evaluation of textile substrates for dispensing synthetic attractants for malaria mosquitoes.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background The full-scale impact of odour-baited technology on the surveillance, sampling and control of vectors of infectious diseases is partly limited by the lack of methods for the efficient and sustainable dispensing ... -
The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources – findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background Priority-setting decisions are based on an important, but not sufficient set of values and thus lead to disagreement on priorities. Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) is an ethics-based approach to a ... -
Indirect cost of maternal deaths in the WHO African Region in 2010.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background An estimated 147,741 maternal deaths occurred in 2010 in 45 of the 47 countries in the African Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). The objective of this study was to estimate the indirect cost of ... -
A randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a nurse-led palliative care intervention for HIV positive patients on antiretroviral therapy: recruitment, refusal, randomisation and missing data.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background Despite the life threatening nature of an HIV diagnosis and the multidimensional problems experienced by this patient population during antiretroviral therapy, the effectiveness of a palliative care approach ... -
PedVacc 002: A phase I/II randomized clinical trial of MVA.HIVA vaccine administered to infants born to human immunodeficiency virus type 1-positive mothers in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2014-10)Background A safe, effective vaccine for breastfeeding infants born to HIV-1-positive mothers could complement antiretroviral therapy (ART) for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1. To date, only a few ... -
Urinary cytokines in Schistosoma haematobium-infected schoolchildren from Tana Delta District of Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background Pathological changes due to infection with Schistosoma haematobium include cytokine-mediated urinary tract inflammation. The involved cytokines may be excreted in urine and their presence in urine may therefore ... -
Comparative evaluation of methods used for sampling malaria vectors in the Kilombero valley, south eastern Tanzania
(University of Nairobi, 2008)To monitor malaria transmission, effective sampling methods for host seeking vectors are necessary. The suitability of these methods can be determined by field measurements of their trapping efficiencies. We compared the ... -
Use of brachial plexus blockade and medetomidine-ketamine-isoflurane anaesthesia for repair of radio-ulna fracture in an adult cheetah (acinonyx jubatus).
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background Regional anaesthetic techniques have been used in combination with systemic analgesics during small animal surgery to provide multimodal analgesia. Brachial plexus nerves block using local anaesthetics provides ... -
Influence of board of managements’ contribution to development of public secondary schools in Nyamira north district, Nyamira county, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of board of managements’ contribution in development of public secondary schools. The objectives of the study were to determine the extent to which BOM members’ ... -
Cultural factors influencing Sudanese urban refugee girls’ participation in public primary schools in Ruiru sub-county, Kiambu county
(University of Nairobi, 2014)This study aimed at investigating factors influencing Sudanese Urban refugee girls’ participation in public primary schools in Ruiru sub-county, Kenya. The study sought to achieve the following objectives: establish the ... -
Factors influencing utilization of cervical cancer screening services in Embu hospital, Embu county, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Cervical cancer is a major global health problem, with nearly 528,000 new cases occurring each year worldwide. Each year an estimated 275,000 women die from the disease with about 86% of the cases occurring in developing ... -
Influence of constituency development fund on provision of quality education infrastructure in public secondary schools of Rongo sub county, Migori county – Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The government has identified centralized planning as a serious development bottleneck and devised strategies for gradual devolution of decision‐making power to the local level. Among other development blueprints is the ... -
Apocynaceae family as a source of traditional and conventional medicine.
(2011)1. BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY. Plants have an important role in the treatment of various diseases by both traditional and conventional or 'modern' medicine. Modern medicine utilises scientific and technological methods to ... -
The importance of scrophulariaceae family as a source of herbal and conventional medicines.
(2011)This project was based on extensive exploration of Scrophulariaceae family as an important source of traditional and conventional medicines using literature survey, internet andjoumals. A brief survey of the various ... -
Macroscopic and microscopic study of Datura stramonium, Azadirachta indica AND Bidens pilosa.
(2012)Datura stramonium, Azadirachta indica and Bidens pilosa, are herbal drugs of global importance used for the treatment of different ailments. At global, regional, national and local levels, the end users of these drugs ... -
Assessment for the presence of aflatoxins and heavy metals in commercially available herbal medicines.
(2012)It is estimated that about 70-80% of the world's population relies on non-conventional medicine, mainly of herbal origin. The idea that just because herbal medicine products come from natural sources they are completely ...
