Search
Now showing items 51-60 of 146
Rift Valley Fever Seroprevalence in Coastal Kenya
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017)
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes severe disease in both animals and humans, resulting in significant economic and public health damages. The objective of this study was to measure RVFV seroprevalence in six coastal ...
Monitoring malaria vector control interventions: effectiveness of five different adult mosquito sampling methods
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
Long-term success of ongoing malaria control efforts based on mosquito bed nets (long-lasting insecticidal net) and indoor residual spraying is dependent on continuous monitoring of mosquito vectors, and thus on effective ...
Effect of antenatal parasitic infections on anti-vaccine IgG levels in children: a prospective birth cohort study in Kenya
(Public Library of Science, 2015)
Parasitic infections are prevalent among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. We investigated whether prenatal exposure to malaria and/or helminths affects the pattern of infant immune responses to standard vaccinations ...
National health financing policy in Eritrea: a survey of preliminary considerations
(BioMed Central, 2012)
The 58th World Health Assembly and 56th WHO Regional Committee for Africa adopted resolutions urging Member States to ensure that health financing systems included a method for prepayment to foster financial risk sharing ...
ORIGINAL RESEARCH Open Access Health financing in the African Region: 2000 – 2009 data analysis
(International Archives of Medicine, 2014)
In order to raise African countries probability of achieving the United Nations Millennium. Development Goals by 2015, there is need to increase and more efficiently use domestic and external funding to strengthen health ...
Parasitism in children aged three years and under: relationship between infection and growth in rural coastal Kenya
(Public Library of Science, 2015)
Parasitic infections, which are among the most common infections worldwide, dispropor-tionately affect children; however, little is known about the impact of parasitic disease on growth in very early childhood. Our objective ...
Swaziland National Health Research Agenda: The Formulation Process
(International Medical Society, 2017)
The objectives of this article are to describe the process followed in development of the Swaziland’s national health research agenda (NHRA); and to provide an overview of the health research priorities that ...
The Monetary Value of Disability-Adjusted-Life-Years Lost in the East African Community in 2015
(Scientific Research Publishing Inc., 2018-07)
The East African Community (EAC) member states (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) incur annually a huge loss of disability-adjusted life years (DALY) from communicable and non-communicable diseases and ...
Functional promoter haplotypes of interleukin-18 condition susceptibility to severe malarial anemia and childhood mortality
(American Society for Microbiology, 2011)
Severe malarial anemia (SMA) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children residing in regions where Plasmodium falciparum transmission is holoendemic. Although largely unexplored in children with SMA, ...
The Monetary Value of Disability -Adjusted- Life -Years Lost in the East African Community in 2015
(Scientific Research Publishing Inc., 2018-07-31)
The East African Community (EAC) member states (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda,Tanzania and Uganda) incur annually a huge loss of disability-adjusted life years (DALY) from communicable and non-communicable diseases and injuries ...