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 ...

Many studies have been done on Theileria and Babesia in livestock, wildlife and humans as separate hosts. However, there is very little information on the genetic diversity of these haemoprotozoa in an ecological system ...

Four million children die in their first twenty eight days of life. HIV infection during pregnancy has contributed to the early neonatal mortalities. Post neonatal and child mortality have declined over a decade in developing ...