It has been established that lack of access to safe drinking water together with inadequate sanitation and hygiene is globally an overwhelming contributor to approximately 4 billion cases of illness annually. In developing ...

ABSTRACT In Kenya, women living with HIV account for 52%of the 1.5million people living with HIV. With advent of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), many HIV positive women have become pregnant intentionally or unintentionally. ...

Several fastidious bacteria have been associated with bacterial vaginosis (BV), but their role in lactobacilli recolonization failure is unknown. This study examined the effect of seven BV-associated bacterial species and ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection represents a considerable health burden worldwide. Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has greatly improved survival in HIV infected people ...

Globally, infertility is estimated to be 8-12 percent of couples within the childbearing years, while in Kenya it is at 11.9 per cent. In ethnobotanical studies in Kenya and India, Grewia tenax, a shrub (Fam. Teliaceae), ...

Kenya, like other African countries, has been affected significantly by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Kenya has been a leader in rapidly expanding access to HIV prevention, care and treatment, and great effort has been invested ...

were preserved directly to the respective temperature. In the second approach a systematic step method starting from RT to 4˚C, to -20˚C, and to -80˚C with one hour interval, was utilized. After each subsequent month ...

Forested habitats are severely threatened in Kenya.Despite their faunal endemism, they have received very little conservation attention.A study on effectsof farming activities on bird diversity and abundance was conducted ...

Leishmaniasis is classified by the WHO as an emergent category of one of the uncontrolled and NTDsco-exist with malnutrition and HIV/AIDS. Due to lack of vaccine, control relies on ineffective, toxic and expensive chemotherapy ...

The recommended strategy for control of schistosomiasis is preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel (PZQ). Pre-school age children (PSAC) are excluded from population treatment programs. In high endemic areas, these ...