Men who have sex with men experience a high burden of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoea infections which remain largely undiagnosed in the context of syndromic and presumptive treatment. In Kenya, limited ...

The World Health Organization’s global strategy on public health aims to support Member States to improve access to essential medicines. The desire of Kenya Government to implement this is expressed by formulation of Kenya ...

Globally malaria results in 300 to 500 million clinical episodes and one million deaths annually. Malaria is caused by a protozoa of the genus Plasmodium. The disease is transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles ...

Occurrence of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in adult human immuno-deficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infected patients is associated with 18% of HIV-1 deaths. Availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has ...

The main objective of this research was to investigate the circumstances surrounding sexuality among pregnant and nursing adolescents at first sex and before first pregnancy. The knowledge of reproductive health matters ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a global pandemic and mitigation for spread is a global challenge. Though different mechanisms have been put in place to prevent Human ...

Brucellosis in human is characterized by non specific signs and often misdiagnosed as malaria, typhoid, rheumatic fever and pyrexia of unknown origin. Definitive diagnosis of brucellosis requires isolation of Brucella ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the health knowledge of Standard 7 pupils over a wide range of health topics and some of their health related practices. This group of pupils was chosen because they will soon (in ...

HIV and AIDS has become the world's most devastating epidemic in developing countries. More than 25 million people have died has a result of AIDS related illness since the disease was first diagnosed in 1981. A total of ...

Infections caused by both typhoid salmonella and non-typhoid Salmonellae , (NTS) species cause major health problems such as acute gastroenteritis, typhoid fever, severe bacteraemia and septicaemia that result in ...