Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for 63% of deaths worldwide. Of these, fifty per cent of hospital admissions and over eighty per cent occur in LMICs. The Kenyan government prioritized communicable disease management ...

Ticks are excellent vectors of pathogens that cause morbidity and mortality in man, livestock and wildlife. At least 900 species of ticks are known globally. With the expansion of ticks into new habitats as a result of ...

About 9% of Sub Sahara Africa (SSA) children have moderate acute malnutrition and 2% of children in developing countries have Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). There is no such information about children to allow planning ...

Antimicrobial use in agriculture, livestock and in human health has increased over the years leading to increase in antimicrobial resistance among strains that can also find their way into the aquatic environments. Rivers ...

Male circumcision is one of the oldest surgical procedures in human history. Scientists predicted the medical benefit of this procedure as early as mid-19th century. Results from three clinical trials conducted in Kenya, ...

Q fever is a highly endemic, globally distributed zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii. The pathogen host rage is varied although domestic small ruminants are the frequent source of human infection. The disease is ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major public health problem affecting approximately 360 million people globally. Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is responsible for more than one third of chronic HBV infections ...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related death among women in developing countries. In Kenya, women’s knowledge of cervical cancer and Pap smears screening is very limited ...

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 ...

Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) helps in improving delivery of health care services. However, despite heavy investment by Kenyan government in ICT infrastructures, the efficiency and benefits ...