The effective management of acute pain remains a challenge to many households especially in resource-poor countries. In Kenya, healthcare seeking behavior associated with the management of acute pain at the household level ...

The introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in the management of HIV infection has led to a significant decline in HIV-related morbidity and mortality. This chronic condition has now become a manageable ...

Many adolescents at some point in their lives experience bullying victimisation at school. This has been amplified by its co-occurrence with depression and suicide that has also been linked to bullying. In recent years ...

Low amount of ingested fluoride is important for prevention of dental caries. However, ingestion of high levels of fluoride may lead to disease conditions that adversely affect the skeleton. Aluminium is not known to be ...

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by recurrent airway inflammation, hyper-responsiveness and reversible airway obstruction. Warburgia ugandensis is widely used by herbalist due to its therapeutic ...

Plants may contain ingredients that have anti-parasitic activity against parasites of medical significance. Chenopodium ambrosoides (Wormseed) a wide spread herb in the Family Chenopodiacea was investigated for anti-schistosomal ...

Peptic ulcer disease is a non-malignant, mucosal lesion of the stomach or duodenum, in which pepsin and hydrochloric acid plays a major pathogenic role. The purpose of this study was to determine the anti-ulcerogenic effect ...

Candida albicans is a dimorphic fungus which is part of normal microbial flora of an immunocompetent individual but becomes pathogenic in immunocompromised individuals causing infections such as candidiasis. Management of ...

Infections due to antibiotic resistant microorganisms have become widespread in recent years, and resistance rates among key pathogens have continued to grow at an alarming rate worldwide and the search for novel ...

Invasive Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) are a major cause of serious bloodstream infections with a case fatality of 20-25%. NTS infection is often invasive in Sub-Saharan Africa (iNTS) and is implicated as a major cause ...