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Wells and Boreholes: Resilient Water Provision in Nairobi
HoST, 2022 In most Global South cities, the majority of urban residents, especially those in informal settlements, continue to survive off the main infrastructural grid.
Akallah Jethron Ayumbah
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Urban Science, 2020 Toponyms, along with other urban symbols, were used as a tool of control over space in many African countries during the colonial period. This strategy was epitomized by the British, who applied it in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya from the late 1800s.
Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita, Frédéric Giraut
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Analysis of contraceptive use among homeless women in Kenya – a case of Nairobi county
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 Many factors influence the utilization of reproductive healthcare services in Kenya. Despite the effort by the government and other stakeholders to improve access and utilization of these services, there remains a major challenge in reaching out to ...
Lydia Cheruto Pkaremba +2 more
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Pan-African Journal of Health and Environmental Science, 2023 Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted almost every aspect of daily living and placed unprecedented demands on society. Stress, anxiety, and depression continued to exacerbate substantially amidst the COVID-19 preventive ...
Janet Nyaboke Odhiambo
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Persons who inject drugs (PWID) have higher HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) seroprevalence than the general population in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Betsy C. Sambai +16 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 HIV-1 transmission dynamics involving men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa are not well understood. We investigated the rates of HIV-1 transmission between MSM across three regions in Kenya: Coast, Nairobi, and Nyanza.
George M. Nduva +23 more
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Maternal health care utilization in Nairobi and Ouagadougou: evidence from HDSS [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: Maternal mortality is higher and skilled attendance at delivery is lower in the slums of Nairobi (Kenya) compared to Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).
Clémentine Rossier +6 more
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Drivers and Modalities of Collaborative Innovation among Nairobi’s Mobile Tech Start-Ups
The African Journal of Information and Communication, 2020 This article sets out findings from research into the collaborative modalities present in the innovation practices of mobile tech start-ups in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Victor Nzomo +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundGendered economic and social systems can enable relational power disparities for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), and undercut autonomy to negotiate sex and contraceptive use. Less is known about their accumulation and interplay.
Michele R Decker +10 more
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Parental education and high school completion in the urban informal settlements in Kenya
Cogent Education, 2017 A well-established empirical association exists between family background and children’s educational attainment. Studies have shown the importance of parental education for not just children’s educational outcomes but also other behavioral, and health ...
Benta A. Abuya +3 more
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