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Determinants of Feeding Knowledge and Practices among Infants Born of HIV Positive Female Sex Worker Mothers’ Sex Worker Outreach Programme Clinic
(KeMU, 2019-09)
Feeding of infants is determined by many things which including the nature of work done by the mother. Sex worker outreach Programme (SWOP) is a clinic that caters for medical needs of the women selling sex in Kenya. The ...
Factors Influencing Willingness to Use Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis among Male Homosexuals at the Sex Workers Outreach Program Clinic
(KeMU, 2019-09)
The use of antiretroviral agents in an HIV negative person before engaging in coitus with a HIV-positive partner is termed as pre-exposure prophylaxis. The objective of this study was to assess the factors influencing ...
Drivers of Health Services' Sustainability in Selected Mission Hospitals in MT. Kenya
(KeMU, 2016-07)
Mission hospitals were initiated by missionaries and were heavily subsidized. The situation has changed; donor support is no longer reliable and cost of providing services has increased tremendously. The subsidy which ...
Impact of Point of Use Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Reducing Diarrhea Morbidity among Children under Five Years Old in Kawangware, Nairobi County
(KeMU, 2016-07)
Diarrheal diseases are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries particularly in children. This study took the form of a cross-sectional study to determine the impact of Point of Use (POU) ...
Factors Associated with Stunting among Children Aged 0-23 Months.
(KeMU, 2016)
Globally, childhood stunting is one of the most significant impediments to human development, affecting approximately 162 million children under the age of 5 years (WHA Global nutrition target, 2025). Stunting, or being ...
Factors Influencing Provision of Nutrition Education and Counselling To Pregnant Women by Nurses during Antenatal Care in Nairobi County.
(KeMU, 2016-06)
Good maternal nutrition is essential for health, development and reproductive performance of the pregnant woman, and for the growth, survival and general health of the child. One strategy for ensuring pregnant women get ...
The Effect of Mobile Phone Technology in Bridging the Gaps in ARV Uptake Care Service Delivery in Kenya: A Case Study in Kibera, Nairobi County
(KeMU, 2019-07)
The Kenyan constitution seeks to guarantee every citizen the right to quality healthcare services but is hampered geographical location, socio-economic statuses, and education among other factors of intended recipients. ...
Aflatoxin Analysis in Staple Food Cereals and Assessment of Households’ Awareness on its Management in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2021-09)
Aflatoxin is a poisonous substance produced by fungi. Crops infestation is inevitable and
numerous evolving nations collectively with Kenya do not regularly test their main foods for
aflatoxins contamination. Consumption ...
Factors Influencing Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Youth (15-24 Years) in Selected Health Facilities in Nyeri County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2021-10)
The antiretroviral therapy combinations introduction in 1996 disrupted the natural course of
the HIV/AIDS infection. In fact, ARVs induced an effective reduction in the morbidity and
incidence ...
Evaluation of the Effect of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy among Children Living with HIV in OLA During Children’s Hospital-Freetown, Sierra Leone
(KeMU, 2020-11)
The second biggest killer disease triggered by a single infectious agent and the leading cause of mortality for children living with HIV (CLHIV) is Tuberculosis (TB), rendering it an significant public health concern that ...