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Malaria Control Interventions Among Pregnant Women in Huye District, Southern Province, Rwanda

Habimana, Amos (JKUAT-COHES, 2022-10-12)

Despite the fact, that malaria is a controllable disease, in sub-Saharan Africa, including Rwanda, it is still killing pregnant mothers and their children aged less than five years. Due to their low immunity, those two ...
Malaria diagnosis, Prevalence of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum and gene flow patterns in endemic and epidemic regions of Kenya

Wangai, Laura Nyawira (2014-12-19)

Plasmodium falciparum strains resistant to the commonly used drugs are becoming increasingly widespread in Kenya. The emergence and spread of resistant strains is an impediment to efforts to manage malaria. The spread of ...
Male Partner Involvement in Antenatal Care at Kangundo Level 4 Hospital in Machakos County, Kenya

Muia, Pauline Kavindu (JKUAT-COHES, 2022-10-21)

Male partner involvement is the process of ensuring that spouses avail themselves and participate in every step together with their wives during antenatal care services. The need for male partner involvement was introduced ...
Male Partner involvement in Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and the associated factors in Kisumu East Sub-County, Kenya

Oyugi, Elvis Omondi (COHES, JKUAT, 2017-09-13)

Male partner participation in activities targeting elimination of MTCT of HIV (eMTCT) remains low in Kisumu East Sub-County, despite its critical importance in reducing rates of MTCT. The Sub-County has a high MTCT of HIV ...
Malnutrition and Comorbidities among Children Under Five Years in SOS Hospital Mogadishu, Somalia

Nor, Said Mohamed (JKUAT-COHES, 2020-10-21)

Malnutrition is defined as a lack of proper nutrition. The vast majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9% of the population are undernourished. It is prevalent in children particularly ...
Management Practices of Nurses on Reproductive Health Services for Persons Living with Disabilities in Thika Hospital, Kenya

Bor, Monica Chebet (JKUAT-COHES, 2021-03-04)

Globally, persons living with disabilities experience myriad of challenges associated with reproductive health and face new vulnerabilities to human rights abuses at the onset of adolescence. Though the health system that ...
Mapping the Distribution Patterns of Multiple-Drug Resistances Gram-Negative Bacterial Strains Recoverable From Food and Environmental Samples in Kibera Informal Settlements

Maina, John Ndemi (2020-11-25)

In this cross-sectional study conducted in Kibera informal settlements in the west side on Nairobi, ready-to-eat food samples that consisted of kales, cabbage, Managu, rice, ndengu, githeri, beans, meat, omena(a preparation ...
MAPPING TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS AMONG WOMEN LIVING IN KISUMU, KENYA

Sande, Harriette Eshituku (Public Health,JKUAT, 2016-02-26)

T. vaginalis is one of the most common occurring sexually transmitted infections in the world. It accounts for 170 million new cases of treatable STIs that occur every year world wide. This infection has been associated ...
Maternal and Pediatric adherence to antiretroviral treatment as a predictor of the children’s HIV serological status in Nairobi City County

Imbaya, Christopher Lumuli (jkuat, 2016-01-26)

Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are administered to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive women and their children to prevent Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT) and treat maternal and pediatric HIV disease. Early Infant ...
Maternal Factors Associated With Essential New-Born Care Practices among Postnatal Mothers Attending Kenyatta National Hospital

Wanjiru, Jemimah Wangari (JKUAT-COHES, 2022-09-21)

The World Health Organization emphasizes the need to continuously improve care practices at birth in order to decrease neonatal morbidity and mortality. Despite sensitization of mothers regarding the importance of essential ...
Maternal Mortality among Women Seeking Maternity Care at Kisii Level 5 Hospital, Kenya between January 2009-June, 2010.

Osoro, Alfred Amenya (JKUAT-COHES, 2018-10-02)

Approximately 600,000 women die each year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, 99% of them in developing countries. Kenya has a record of 488 deaths per 100,000 live births while in Kisii region has a ...
Mechanical Pain Patterns and Risk Factors Associated with its Chronification among Patients with Non-Specific Low Back Pain at Nakuru Teaching and Referral Hospital

Muisyo, Jonah Muasya (JKUAT-COHES, 2024-02-12)

The majority of patients with low back pain presents with the non-specific low back pain sub-type, research has shown that most of these patients often do not recover fully and risk transitioning to chronic pain. Causing ...
The mechanism of Trypanolysin mediated lysis of Trypanosoma brucei brucei (Kinetoplastida: Trypanomastidae)

Nyambega, Benson Charles Ochieng' (JKUAT-COHES, 2019-03-19)

Previous studies have identified trypanolysin as a bloodmeal induced protein from the midgut of tsetse fly (Glossina spp.), with a non-denaturing (NATIVE) molecular weight of -669 kDa and two subunit molecular weights ...
Metagenomics and Composition of Prokaryotes on Lewis Glacier and its Foreland in Mount Kenya, Nyeri County

Kuja, Josiah Ochieng (JKUAT-COHES, 2020-10-15)

The Lewis glacier in Mt. Kenya, Kenya is one of the best documented tropical glaciers globally, with about 80 years of frequent observations of the length, area and volume change. These studies have, however, focused on ...
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus from Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in selected secondary schools in Nairobi County, Kenya

Mbogori, Caroline Karambu (COHES, JKUAT, 2016-10-03)

Staphylococcus aureus is found on most surfaces especially in public areas like hospitals and schools and on frequently touched areas like toilet and class room door handles. Methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is a ...
Microbial Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance Profile of Bacterial Isolates from Raw Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Marketed for Human Consumption in Selected Sub-Counties of Nairobi, Kenya

Mumbo, Millicent Taka (JKUAT-COHES, 2024-06-04)

Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is a rich source of protein and is increasingly being consumed in urban Kenya. However, fish from multisource pollution waters can harbor antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria that can ...
Microbiological, Immunological and Genomic Characterization of Nontyphoidal Salmonella Isolates From Nairobi County

Sanaya, Robert Onsare (2015)
Micronutrients Deficiencies (Zinc, Retinol And Alpha-Tocopherol), Morbidity Patterns And Dietary Practices Among The Hiv Positive And Negative Subjects In Busia County, Kenya

Khamadi, Viviane Mmbone (Public Health, JKUAT, 2016-03-14)

Use of micronutrients has been recognized as a low-cost sustainable intervention in the management of HIV/AIDS worldwide, yet there is little information on the micronutrient levels among the population in Kenya that can ...
Micronutrients Deficiencies (zinc, retinol and alpha-tocopherol), Morbidity Patterns and Dietary Practices among the HIV Positive and Negative Subjects in Busia County, Kenya.

Khamadi, Vivian Mmbone (Public Health, JKUAT, 2016-03-11)
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus- Sero-prevalence in Camels, Knowledge of Camel Handlers, Hygiene and Slaughter Practices at Athi-River Slaughterhouse, Machakos County, Kenya

Kamau, Esther Muthoni (JKUAT-COHES, 2023-06-21)

The dromedary camel is a reservoir and source for zoonotic transmission of Middle East Respiratory syndrome coronavirus with similarity of camel and human-derived sequences. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, first identified ...

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