Infection with Rubella virus is a public health concern because it may lead to serious consequences such as Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) during early pregnancy. Introduction of the rubella virus vaccine in developed ...

Non-communicable diseases are on the rise globally. Hypertension is one of the most common non-communicable diseases. Globally, the prevalence of hypertension among adults was estimated to be 24.1% in men and 20.1% in women ...

Diarrhoea is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Bacterial agents are among pathogens implicated to cause diarrhoea in children and are of major concern in public health. Antibiotic use has ...

Gold occurs in a number of places within the gold-bearing greenstone rocks in western Kenya. From 1995, prospecting has been active in Lorgorien by licensed gold mining companies coupled with the influx of artisanal miners. ...

Focused Antenatal Care is antenatal care that provides individualized counseling, targeted assessment and provides safe, cost effective, and evidence-based intervention. The noted public health major problem has been ...

Health IT is an application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication ...

Contraceptive is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, sexual practices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy, or childbirth. Contraceptive is a key intervention ...

H. pylori is a microaerophilic organism and a gram negative bacterium which is found in the alimentary canal. It causes chronic gastritis and gastric ulcers. It is also linked to the development of duodenal ulcers and ...

Culicine mosquitoes are vectors of human disease-causing pathogens like lymphatic filariasis and several arboviruses such as dengue fever, chikungunya virus and so on. Due to intensifying land use land cover (LULC) with ...

Urinary tract infections are not as common in men as they are in women. However, when present, they are considered to be indicative of serious urological abnormalities and thus considered to be complicated infection in ...