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Is Exposure to Inter-Parental Violence Associated with Recent Intimate Partner Violence among Women in Kibra Informal Settlements? Evidence from a cross-sectional study
Exposure to inter-parental violence has been associated with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). However, research in Kenya's informal settlements (ISs) has been limited in determining this empirical link. This study aimed to examine if inter-parental violence exposure (IPVE) is associated with IPV in the ISs of Kibra, Nairobi, Kenya. Read More >>>
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COVID-19 and Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting and child marriage: An online multi-country cross sectional survey.
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and child marriage are prevalent in many countries in Asia and Africa. These practices are a violation of human rights and have significant impacts on the physical and mental well-being of those affected. COVID-19 restrictions such as lockdowns and closure of schools may have influenced the occurrence of FGM/C and child marriage. This analysis reported on the impact of these restrictions on FGM/C and child marriage Read More >>>
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy response on access to and utilization of reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health services in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.
A cross-sectional qualitative study conducted in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia assessed how the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy responses affected access to and utilization of reproductive, maternal, child, and adolescent health services. Through 63 in-depth interviews with women of reproductive age, frontline health workers, and government representatives, the study found that services such as antenatal care, delivery, family planning, and immunization were most disrupted. Despite some mitigation efforts, the findings highlight the urgent need to strengthen health systems, particularly suppl
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Equity in Covid 19 – Mitigation and Policy responses in Africa
At the onset of the pandemic, many African governments acted quickly to suppress the virus through various public health measures, including lockdowns, mobilizing healthcare resources and designing responses to support the economy and the population. There were, however, significant variations in the severity and type of measures taken, as well as their accessibility and impacts. Equity was not a given and, therefore, important questions have been raised about who benefitted and who were left unprotected from the interventions, particularly those designed to protect income and basic services?
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Unmasking the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Care in Bungoma County, Kenya
After the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020, the global focus solely shifted to fighting the pandemic. Tuberculosis (TB) services were affected in that the number of newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients decreased from 7.1 million in 2019 to 5.8 million in 2020. This study investigated the effects of COVID-19 on the diagnosis of tuberculosis patients and their treatment outcomes in Bungoma County, Kenya Read More >>>
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Uptake of Drug Susceptibility Testing and Factors Associated among TB Patients in Bungoma County, 2018-2022
Drug Susceptibility Tests play an important role in developing strategies to identify and treat patients at high risk of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. Kenya is among countries with a high burden for Tuberculosis, and Multidrug-resistant/Rifampicin Resistant Tuberculosis. Early diagnosis and detection of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a priority to identify patients not responding to treatment and avoid transmission of resistant strain. This study aimed to determine the uptake of the Drug Susceptibility Test and associated factors among tuberculosis patients in Bungoma County
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Factors Associated with Loss to Follow Up among Tuberculosis Patients in Embu County, 2016-2021
Loss of follow-up among Tuberculosis patients is a significant challenge for Tuberculosis control. It may lead to prolonged infectiousness of Tuberculosis cases, increased rate of treatment failure, relapse, progression to drug-resistant TB, and deaths. The study aimed at identifying factors associated with loss to follow-up among TB patients in Embu County. Read More >>>
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Vaccination Coverage and Predictors of Vaccination among Children Aged 12–23 Months in the Pastoralist Communities of Ethiopia: A Mixed Methods Design
This study assessed vaccination coverage and its associated factors among children aged 12–23 months in pastoralist Ethiopia. It was conducted in three woredas of the Afar region using a community-based cross-sectional mixed methods design with quantitative and qualitative methods. A total of 413 mothers with children aged 12–23 months participated in the quantitative study via a simple random sampling technique. Read More >>>
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