Emergency Medical Services or EMS is the patient care provided on-scene and en-route
to hospital. It serves as the first point of contact for majority of people to healthcare
services during emergencies and life threatening ...
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 ...
Injury and violence is a major killer of children throughout the world, responsible for
about 950 000 deaths annually, in children and young people under the age of 18
years. The World Health Organization identifies ...
Diabetes Mellitus has emerged as one of the most challenging public health problems
currently. It affects over 366 million people worldwide and this figure is likely to
double by 2030. The greatest burden of this condition ...
The number of children who die before the age of five is excessively high and they are
associated with high prevalence of malnutrition. Poor breast-feeding and complementary
feeding practices among other factors exacerbate ...
The proper handling and disposal of medical wastes is very imperative. There are well
defined set rules for handling medical wastes worldwide. Unfortunately, laxity and lack of
adequate training and awareness in the ...
Rock quarrying is one of the common but most dangerous industries to work in
relative to other industries globally. The workers are exposed to a variety of health
hazards. The evaluation of occupational health and safety ...
Brucellosis, a zoonosis of major public health importance, is endemic in livestock in
Kenya. Unfortunately, reliable data on Brucellosis in Kenya is scarce and data on seroprevalence and risk factors associated with small ...
Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomiasis are neglected tropical diseases
(NTDs) mostly prevalent in communities living in areas of poverty in developing
tropical countries. Currently, control programmes are ...
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 ...
Clean and plentiful water provides the foundation for prosperous communities.
Changing climate patterns are threatening lakes and rivers, while key sources of
drinking water are being overdrawn or tainted with pollution. ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the infectious diseases of public health concern globally. In
2017, it is estimated that 10 million people developed TB globally. More than 1.3 million
of the TB cases were notified in the ...
Hepatitis B virus is one of the most common infectious disease in the world, infecting
two billion people, 350 million of them being chronically infected. It is primarily
transmitted through contact with body fluids of ...
The World Health Organization approximates that 257 million people are living with
hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection with 887,000 deaths related to its complication. This
is fuelled by the occurrence of varied risk factors ...
The tick-borne human diseases caused by Rickettsia spp., Coxiella burnetii and
Babesia spp. are rarely reported in Kenya and yet these infections are likely contributors
to undiagnosed febrile disease especially among ...
Having adequate nutrition during infancy is leads to the development of each child’s full
human potential. The first two years of life are important stage for child's growth and
development. Any damage caused by malnutrition ...
High maternal mortality is a global issue. According to world health organization
developing countries especially in sub-Saharan Africa bore the greatest brunt. Kenya was
among the ten countries with very high maternal ...
Global access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is continuously increasing hence it is
estimated that in four years of therapy 5-10% of patients will have their first line of
therapy failing, due to development of resistance. ...
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 ...
Children below five years of age account for about 80% of malaria deaths globally.
As malaria continues to decline in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa and malaria
rapid diagnostic tests become increasingly used, it is ...