Background In times of a disease pandemic, people's compliance with preventive measures is affected by their knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards the disease. This study was designed to evaluate the knowledge, ...

BACKGROUND Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 6.1 implies that both rural and urban (RU) households have access to “safely managed drinking water services” by 2030. Hence, this study assessed households' ...

BACKGROUND Uterine fibroid is the commonest gynecologic tumour in women of reproductive age but there is a disparity in research to understand the aetiologyand risk factors of the disease in Calabar. This study analyzed ...

INTRODUCTION Measles has been among the many vaccine-preventable diseases, and it remains a significant public health concern in Kenya. Immunization coverage is the most common indicator used to ...

Few previous studies have reported the effects of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)-deficiency on child health in Africa. We conducted a case-control study in which cases (n = 6829) were children admitted, for any ...

BACKGROUND Although the maternal mortality ratio in Uganda declined from 505 to 336 maternal death per 100,000 live births between 2001 and 2016, it is still far above the Sustainable Development Goal target of 70 by ...

BACKGROUND Sudden cardiac arrest remains a global health concern. In Kenya 25% of all hospital admissions are related to cardiovascular diseases thus all healthcareworkers and trainees should have updated ...

Background: β-Thalassemia is rare in sub-Saharan Africa. Previous studies have suggested that it is limited to specific parts of West Africa. Based on hemoglobin A2 (HbA2 ) concentrations measured by HPLC, we recently ...

We compared pneumococcal isolation rates and evaluated the benefit of using oropharyngeal (OP) specimens in addition to nasopharyngeal (NP) specimens collected from adults in rural Kenya. Of 846 adults, 52.1% were colonized; ...