Tuberculosis, a deadly infectious disease caused mainly by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is
increasingly becoming one of the leading health concerns globally. Human Immunodeficiency
Virus has exacerbated the situation in ...
Contraceptives offer protection against unwanted pregnancy and some sexually
transmitted infections including HIV. Interventions to promote contraceptive use are
efforts to reduce complications and deaths from unwanted ...
Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional cause of anaemia and has been associated
with poor pregnancy outcome. On the other hand, lack of adequate folate intake prior to
conception and during the early weeks of ...
Vitamin A deficiency is a significant public health problem in Kenya. Studies have
shown that Vitamin A supplementation is one of the best proven and most cost effective interventions to improve vitamin A status and save ...
Drug resistant tuberculosis occurs when Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB)
organisms become resistant to antimicrobial agents at the levels attainable in blood
and tissue. This is a major challenge in tuberculosis care and ...
Folate deficiency is one of the micronutrient deficiencies of greatest public health
concern, especially among women of child bearing age due to the potential
consequences to the unborn baby. To address micronutrient ...
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) belongs to the family Bunyaviridae and genus
Phlebovirus and it causes Rift Valley fever (RVF) which is one of the major viral
hemorrhagic fevers in Kenya and Africa as a continent. RVFV ...
Actinomycetes are organisms belonging to the order Actinomycetale. Most of them are
opportunistic pathogens causing infections in immunocompromised patients. In most
cases, respiratory infections caused by Actinomycetes ...
Geophagy, the regular and deliberate consumption of non-food substances like soil is
said to be common among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed to
investigate geophagy among pregnant women who attended ...
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is a major cause of symptomatic gastritis
and peptic ulcers in the Kenyan population. Persistence of H. pylori and its
medical complications continue to be a major problem. ...
Hepatitis B virus belongs to Hepadnaviridae family and replicates by reverse
transcription of the viral RNA. Nucleotide variation within the virus has led to its
classification into ten genotypes (A-J). The reverse ...
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the most highly genetically diverse viruses
known. This extensive genetic variation has many implications on anti-retroviral drug response,
viral transmission and vaccine ...
Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infections have been associated with a three- fold
risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1) acquisition. The prevalence of HIV-1
and HSV-2 in the fishing communities along the ...
The prevalence of Human Herpes Virus type 8 (HHV-8) is high in Sub-Saharan Africa
(36-60%) in the general population. The risk factors associated with HHV-8 range from
socio-demographic to geographic and behavioral ...
Sex workers are often looked down upon and regarded as illiterate, morally deprived
and socially unfit. They are however, in any societal construct, at the core of many
sexual relationships hence putting them as front ...
Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus type one and two (HTLV1/2) infections are highly
prevalent among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected intravenous drug users
(IDUs). The two viruses share similar routes of transmission ...
Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in both the developed and developing worlds. They are caused by a heterogeneous group of viruses with an overlap in their clinical presentations, ...
Childhood immunization is regarded as key to preventive and promotive health care
in any community. Low immunization coverage is indicative of poor health status in
children under-five years. Vitamin A supplementation ...
Cutaneous leishmaniases (CL) is endemic in more than 88 countries worldwide.
Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Kenya is caused by Leishmania major. Currently
used drugs like pentostam, Amphotericin B are expensive, ...
Medicinal plants have been used in centuries as a remedy for human diseases
because they contain components of therapeutic value. The development of drug
resistance to available antibiotics has also led to investigation ...