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SSRN Electronic JournalThis report has analysed Nairobi’s politics of development, key challenges, and opportunities for equitable change. We conducted four domain studies focused on housing; safety and security (S&S); health, wellbeing and nutrition (HWN); and structural transformation (ST) in Nairobi.
Sverdlik, Alice +12 more
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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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CommuniSense: Crowdsourcing Road Hazards in Nairobi [PDF]
, 2015 Nairobi is one of the fastest growing metropolitan cities and a major business and technology powerhouse in Africa. However, Nairobi currently lacks monitoring technologies to obtain reliable data on traffic and road infrastructure conditions.
Bills, Tierra +6 more
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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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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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The broiler meat system in Nairobi, Kenya: using a value chain framework to understand animal and product flows, governance and sanitary risks [PDF]
, 2017 Livestock food systems play key subsistence and income generation roles in low to middle income countries and are important networks for zoonotic disease transmission.
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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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