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Screening for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Mombasa, Kenya: Feasibility, Prevalence, and Correlates.
(TheAmerican Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association, 2017-06-28)
Introduction: As adolescents and young women become sexually active, they are at risk of adverse reproductive health outcomes including sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We assessed feasibility and acceptability of ...
Parasitic Infections in Pregnancy Decrease Placental Transfer of Anti-Pneumococcal Antibodies
(Clinical Vaccine Immunology, 2017-04-14)
Many factors can influence maternal placental antibody transfer to the fetus, which confers important immune protection to the newborn infant. However, little is known about the effect of maternal parasitic infection on ...
Markets and Gender Interaction in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Case of the Coastal Kenya Sedentary Farm Households’ Experiences
(Journal of Environment and Earth Science, 2014)
Climate change is a global concern which manifests on a multilevel perspective and sometimes distinct or nested
within some geographical boundaries. At the sedentary farm household systems climate change is real and
continues ...
Resettling Displaced people in a coastal Zone mining project: Evaluating the Agricultural and Land Potential of the Proposed Resettlement site –A Case of Titanium Mining in Kenya
(Journal of Environment and Earth Science, 2013)
Preparations to mine titanium in Maumba and Noma areas of Msambweni District, Kwale County are in progress, and farmers affected by the project are to be resettled in another area. The displaced people have made it a ...
Development of a Real-Time Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction for O'nyong-nyong virus and Evaluation with Clinical and Mosquito Specimens in Kenya
(2017-07-29)
O’nyong-nyong virus (ONNV), an alphavirus closely related to chikungunya virus (CHIKV), has been the documented cause of two large outbreaks in east Africa; however, little is known about the contribution of ONNV to cases ...
Environmental implications of the proposed materials handling and ship-loading facility for the export of titanium at the port of mombasa Kenya
(Journal of Environment and Earth Science, 2013)
A proposal has been made by Tiomin, Kenya to construct a materials handling and ship loading facility at Likoni in the vicinity of the port of Mombasa, Kenya. The proposed ship-loading site is a “brown-fields site”, which ...
Use of prospective hospital surveillance data to define spatiotemporal heterogeneity of malaria risk in coastal Kenya
(Malaria Journal, 2015)
Background:
Malaria in coastal Kenya shows spatial heterogeneity and seasonality, which are important factors to account for when planning an effective control system. Routinely collected data at health facilities can be ...
Urbanization and Groundwater Pollution in Mombasa-Kenya: Do we have to Transfer the Problem due to Construction of the Dongo-Kundu By-Pass
(Journal of Environment and Earth Science, 2013)
We show how a bridge and good road network opened up the Mombasa County to rapid urbanization and growth of human settlements beyond the ability of Local Government to provide the infrastructure for human waste management, ...
HIV incidence among women using intramuscular depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, a copper intrauterine device, or a levonorgestrel implant for contraception: a randomised, multicentre, open-label trial
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019-06-13)
Background
Observational and laboratory studies suggest that some hormonal contraceptive methods, particularly intramuscular depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-IM), might increase women's susceptibility to HIV ...
The effect of Kenya’s free maternal health care policy on the utilization of health facility delivery services and maternal and neonatal mortality in public health facilities
(BioMed Central, 2018-03-27)
Background: Kenya abolished delivery fees in all public health facilities through a presidential directive effective on June
1, 2013 with an aim of promoting health facility delivery service utilization and reducing ...