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An Application of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes to Model Evolving Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Kenya
(International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2013)
Tuberculosis, a highly infectious disease which is transmitted within and between communities when infected and
susceptible individuals interact. Tuberculosis at present is a major public health problem and continues to ...
Spatial Temporal Modelling of Tuberculosis in Kenya Using Small Area Estimation
(International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2015)
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease which continues to be of public health importance, and is characterized with varying
distribution across regions depending on socio-economic status, HIV burden and efficiency of the health ...
The epidemiology of tuberculosis in Kenya, a high TB/HIV burden country (2000-2013)
(International Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology Research, 2015)
Interest in the epidemiology of TB was triggered by the re-emergence of tuberculosis in the
early 1990’s with the advent of HIV and falling economic status of many people which
subjected them to poverty. The dual lethal ...
HIV Infection Alters the Spectrum of HPV Subtypes Found in Cervical Smears and Carcinomas from Kenyan Women
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2013)
Infection with high risk HPV is implicated in pre-cancerous squamous intraepithelial lesions and their progression to cervical cancer. In the developed countries, infection with HPV 16 and 18 accounts for ~70% of cervical ...
Perspectives on HIV Pre- and Post- Exposure Prophylaxes (PrEP and PEP) among Female and Male Sex Workers in Mombasa, Kenya: Implications for Integrating Biomedical Prevention into Sexual Health Services
(Guilford, 2017)
Pre- and post-exposure prophylaxes (PrEP and PEP) can reduce the risk of HIV acquisition, yet often are inaccessible to and underutilized by most-vulnerable populations, including sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Based ...
Serum adiponectin in HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus mono- and coinfected Kenyan injection drug users
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Adiponectin is an important marker of anthropometric profiles of adipose tissue. However, association of adiponectin and adiposity in HIV mono- and co-infected and hepatitis (HCV) injection drug users (IDUs) has not been ...