School children bear a significant burden of intestinal parasitic infections. Because they spend most of their time at home and school, it is necessary to identify the key water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) factors ...

Introduction Hypertension often referred to as Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Causes of hypertension are classified into modifiable and non-modifiable factors. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence ...

Introduction Cervical cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the cervix uteri. It is the second most common cancer among women worldwide, with an estimated 528,000 new cases and 266,000 deaths among women each year. Cervical ...

Backgound: HIV/AIDS pandemic is a great public health concern hence the need to identify interventions to prevent new infections among risk groups. Objective: To determine risky sexual behaviours among HIV sero-discordant ...

Introduction: World Health Organization (WHO) reported that tuberculosis (TB) was a major health problem and the second leading cause of mortality globally. An estimated 1.8 million TB deaths were reported in 2015. In ...

Consumption of alcohol increases the risk of Breast cancer as revealed in many studies. In 2008, cancer killed 7.6 million people worldwide. In Kenya, one in every eight women had the disease with 2, 2000 deaths in 2011. A ...

Background Entamoeba histolytica, the causative agent for amoebiasis is a considerable burden to population in the developing countries where it accounts for over 50 million infections. The tools for detection of amoebiasis ...

Pre-clinical transmission assays are essential for proof-of-concept for transmission blocking strategies but are hazardous to laboratory personnel and animal hosts as it entails exposure of live rodents to infected vectors. ...

In this study, ticks from pastoral communities in Kenya were tested for Rickettsia spp. infections in geographical regions where the presence of tick-borne arboviruses had previously been reported. Rickettsial and ...

Background: Human Cytomegalovirus (hCMV) is one of the opportunistic infections in HIV patients. During an active infection it's a common cause of Pneumonia, retinitis, gastro-intestinal disease, and hepatitis. It is ...