Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to be a major threat to human kind. Quantitative measures of CD4+ T- lymphocytes and viral load in peripheral blood ...

The informal (Juakali) sector in Kenya lacks occupational health and safety services and hence workers are unsuspectingly exposed to health hazards. Worldwide, occupational noise is a significant cause of adult onset-hearing ...

Helicobacter pylori colonizes the gut of persons of all ages, and is the etiologic agent for acute and chronic gastritis and a predisposing factor in peptic ulcer disease, gastric carcinoma and B-cell mucosa-associated ...

The bone teratogenic effects of tetracycline group of medicines following in-utero exposure has been contentious of late in that doxycline and minocycline have been shown to enhance bone formation in low doses. This is ...

The existing literature has shown that enalapril, a widely prescribed antihypertensive due to its monotherapeutic success and its cost effectiveness, is nephroteratogenic when applied in-utero. However, data on its teratogenic ...

In-utero exposure to alcohol has been shown to perturb the normal development of the fetal liver. Though data exist on the alcohol teratogenicity to the fetal viscera, there is paucity of data on the anatomical histo-stereological ...

The in-utero exposure to carbamazepine has been shown to perturb the normal morphogenesis of cortical and sub-cortical structurers of the fetal brain. However, the anatomical histostereological effects of prenatal exposure ...

Since the initiation of Kenya’s nationwide free antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2003 and 3 by 5 initiatives the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has increased dramatically. This initiative has ...

The prevalence of Human Herpes Virus type 8 (HHV-8) is high in Sub-Saharan Africa (36-60%) in the general population. The risk factors associated with HHV-8 range from socio-demographic to geographic and behavioral ...

Sex workers are often looked down upon and regarded as illiterate, morally deprived and socially unfit. They are however, in any societal construct, at the core of many sexual relationships hence putting them as front ...