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Understanding the Relationship Between Loneliness and Sleep, and Their Influence on Mental Health of a High-Adversity-Exposed School Sample of Kenyan Adolescents

Annals of Global Health
Background: Loneliness is emerging as a key risk factor for child and adolescent mental health. Exacerbated by lack of support, busy routines, continuous adversities, and poor social networks, it is a public health concern. Sleep is essential for healthy
Manasi Kumar, Shillah Mwaniga Mwavua, Sabrina Cheng, Alicia Chung, Leonard Njeru Njiru, Georgina Obonyo, Mohammad Dayow, Keng-Yen Huang   +7 more
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Machine Learning‐Augmented Loop‐Mediated Isothermal Amplification‐Enabled Point‐of‐Care for Mpox‐Specific Detection

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A low‐cost, portable point‐of‐care platform for rapid Mpox detection using loop‐mediated isothermal amplification is reported. The device integrates fluorescence readout and mobile monitoring. A machine‐learning model analyzes temperature data and correlates thermal changes with DNA concentration, enabling sensitive and reliable molecular diagnosis in ...
Nazente Atceken, Ahmed Choukri Abdullah, Olgac Ozarslan, Ziya Yıldız, Savas Tasoglu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Experience with Stapled Hemorrhoidopexy in Nairobi, Kenya

The Annals of African Surgery, 2014
Background: Conventional hemorrhoidectomy (CH) is considered the gold standard in the surgical management of symptomatic hemorrhoids. It is however painful and has a relatively lengthy convalescence period.
Otieno ES, Mutai KK
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Delivering a family‐based child mental health promotion program among two resettled refugee communities during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons learned in a hybrid type II implementation‐effectiveness randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Resettled refugee families face elevated mental health risks, compounded by structural and cultural barriers. The Family Strengthening Intervention for Resettlement (FSIR), co‐developed with resettled refugee communities, aims to improve family functioning and child mental health.
Euijin Jung, Candace Black, Matias Placencio‐Castro, Lila Chamlagai, Rilwan Osman, Morgan Hoffman, William Beardslee, Theresa S. Betancourt   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal Mortality Determinants in Rural Kenya: An Audit of Three Hospitals

Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research
Background: Global health agencies advocate that no mother should die while giving life, more so from preventable causes. However, there are persistently high maternal mortalities in various regions with a current global maternal mortality ratio of 211 ...
Brian Barasa Masaba, Rose M. Mmusi-Phetoe, Bernard Rono, Daniel Kyalo Muthiani, Jonathan Taiswa, Stephenie Lydia Ojiambo, Damaris Moraa, John Kennedy Moturi   +7 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 incidence among Kenyan patients with and without inflammatory rheumatic disease

Journal of Public Health in Africa
Background: Inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRDs) have been considered potential risk factors for COVID-19, but evidence from Africa remains limited.
Benwillies Onchong’a, Tuulikki Sokka-Isler, Pekka Mäntyselkä, Ari Voutilainen   +3 more
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