Despite extensive efforts to promote Insecticide-Treated Nets (ITNs) and Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Pregnancy (IPTp), utilization rates among pregnant women remain suboptimal. Leveraging Kenya's extensive mobile ...

Dengue virus (DENV) and Yellow fever virus (YFV) are RNA viruses belonging to the genus Flavivirus and family Flaviviridae. Their emergence and re-emergence have become crucial public health problems, especially in Sub-Saharan ...

Schistosomiasis is a disease of global public health importance among populations residing in Schistosoma-infection prone areas. Global interventions have not succeeded yet in control, elimination nor eradication of the ...

BACKGROUND: Decidual macrophages are essential during pregnancy playing the most critical role in tolerance, tissue priming, parturition, and postpartum recapability. Change in the placental microenvironment leading to ...

Introduction Worldwide, complications that occur in pregnancy, at childbirth, and in the immediate postnatal period (puerperium) are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among Women of Reproductive Age (WRA). ...

Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogenic bacterium that can evolve rapidly to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a global health concern that is associated with ...

More than 600,000 deaths from malaria were recorded in 2020, making it a serious public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa, especially for pregnant women. In Kenya, 75% of the population is at risk, with Busia County ...

BACKGROUND Globally, vector-based malaria control programs, such as insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) play an essential role in reducing malaria infections. Despite evidence of their effectiveness when properly and consistently ...

BACKGROUND Even though the Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence has stabilized, the disease continues to pose challenges, with about 1.3 million cases reported globally and over 22,000 reported in Kenya, making ...

BACKGROUND Yeast infections significantly impact global morbidity and mortality but remain underdiagnosed and underreported. Treatment failure due to antifungal resistance, particularly in critically ill patients, limits ...