Kenya

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Not too far to walk": the influence of distance on place of delivery in a western Kenya health demographic surveillance system. 
  • "We Hide Under the Scriptures": Conceptualization of Health Among United Methodist Church Clergy in Kenya. 
  • A Direct Observational Measure of Family Functioning for a Low-Resource Setting: Adaptation and Feasibility in a Kenyan Sample. 
  • A church-based intervention for families to promote mental health and prevent HIV among adolescents in rural Kenya: Results of a randomized trial. 
  • A clinical decision support system for integrating tuberculosis and HIV care in Kenya: a human-centered design approach. 
  • A comparison of two visual inspection methods for cervical cancer screening among HIV-infected women in Kenya. 
  • A descriptive analysis of perceptions of HIV risk and worry about acquiring HIV among FEM-PrEP participants who seroconverted in Bondo, Kenya, and Pretoria, South Africa. 
  • A mobile health technology platform for quality assurance and quality improvement of malaria diagnosis by community health workers. 
  • A multifaceted intervention to reduce rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infections in a resource-limited setting. 
  • A new NOS2 promoter polymorphism associated with increased nitric oxide production and protection from severe malaria in Tanzanian and Kenyan children. 
  • A promoter polymorphism in the gene encoding interleukin-12 p40 (IL12B) is associated with mortality from cerebral malaria and with reduced nitric oxide production. 
  • A retrospective cohort study to quantify the contribution of health systems to child survival in Kenya: 1996-2014. 
  • Accessibility, availability and affordability of anti-malarials in a rural district in Kenya after implementation of a national subsidy scheme. 
  • Accuracy of Self-Report and Pill-Count Measures of Adherence in the FEM-PrEP Clinical Trial: Implications for Future HIV-Prevention Trials. 
  • Accuracy of standard measures of family planning service quality: findings from the simulated client method. 
  • Accuracy of visual inspection with acetic acid to detect cervical cancer precursors among HIV-infected women in Kenya. 
  • Adolescents' cognitive capacity reaches adult levels prior to their psychosocial maturity: Evidence for a "maturity gap" in a multinational, cross-sectional sample. 
  • Age and individual foraging behavior predict tooth wear in Amboseli baboons. 
  • Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, environmental and demographic influences. 
  • Agriculture. Nutrient imbalances in agricultural development. 
  • Allele-specific gene expression in a wild nonhuman primate population. 
  • An innovative pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy for improving malaria management in rural Kenya: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • An outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Northeastern Kenya, 1997-98. 
  • Approaches to Sustainable Capacity Building for Cardiovascular Disease Care in Kenya. 
  • Assessing the accuracy of a point-of-care analyzer for hyperlipidaemia in western Kenya. 
  • Assessment of healthcare personnel knowledge of stroke care at a large referral hospital in sub-Saharan Africa - A survey based approach. 
  • Associations Between Fathers' and Sons' Sexual Risk in Rural Kenya: The Potential for Intergenerational Transmission. 
  • Barriers Influencing Linkage to Hypertension Care in Kenya: Qualitative Analysis from the LARK Hypertension Study. 
  • Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening in Rural Kenya: Perspectives from a Provider Survey. 
  • Behavioural inbreeding avoidance in wild African elephants. 
  • Blood pressure level impacts risk of death among HIV seropositive adults in Kenya: a retrospective analysis of electronic health records. 
  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries. 
  • Brain death determination: the imperative for policy and legal initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Bridging Income Generation with Group Integrated Care for cardiovascular risk reduction: Rationale and design of the BIGPIC study. 
  • Brief Report: Frequency of Monitoring Kidney Function in HIV-Uninfected Persons Using Daily Oral Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Pre-exposure Prophylaxis. 
  • Building Sustainable Capacity for Cardiovascular Care at a Public Hospital in Western Kenya. 
  • Building capacity for cervical cancer screening in outpatient HIV clinics in the Nyanza province of western Kenya. 
  • Cardiovascular health knowledge and preventive practices in people living with HIV in Kenya. 
  • Catarrhine hallucal metatarsals from the early Miocene site of Songhor, Kenya. 
  • Cervical Cancer Screening Knowledge and Behavior among Women Attending an Urban HIV Clinic in Western Kenya. 
  • Cervical Cancer Stigma in Rural Kenya: What Does HIV Have to Do with It? 
  • Cervical cancer precursors and hormonal contraceptive use in HIV-positive women: application of a causal model and semi-parametric estimation methods. 
  • Cervical cancer screening through human papillomavirus testing in community health campaigns versus health facilities in rural western Kenya. 
  • Changing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding cervical cancer screening: The effects of an educational intervention in rural Kenya. 
  • Chlorproguanil-dapsone versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for sequential episodes of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Kenya and Malawi: a randomised clinical trial. 
  • Clinical and geographic patterns of rheumatic heart disease in outpatients attending cardiology clinic in western Kenya. 
  • Clinical characteristics and 12-month outcomes of patients with valvular and non-valvular atrial fibrillation in Kenya. 
  • Community and facility-level engagement in planning and budgeting for the government health sector--a district perspective from Kenya. 
  • Comparison of Nonblood-Based and Blood-Based Total CV Risk Scores in Global Populations. 
  • Comparison of patient flow and provider efficiency of two delivery strategies for HPV-based cervical cancer screening in Western Kenya: a time and motion study. 
  • Comparison of post-disaster psychiatric disorders after terrorist bombings in Nairobi and Oklahoma City. 
  • Conditional fetal and infant killing by male baboons. 
  • Contraceptive service delivery in Kenya: A qualitative study to identify barriers and preferences among female sex workers and health care providers. 
  • Contribution of urinary tract infection to the burden of febrile illnesses in young children in rural Kenya. 
  • Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries. 
  • Cost of HPV screening at community health campaigns (CHCs) and health clinics in rural Kenya. 
  • Definite hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia in a 60-year-old black Kenyan woman: a case report. 
  • Developing a family-based HIV prevention intervention in rural Kenya: challenges in conducting community-based participatory research. 
  • Developing and validating a perinatal depression screening tool in Kenya blending Western criteria with local idioms: A mixed methods study. 
  • Development and validation of a rapid assessment tool for malaria prevention. 
  • Developmental constraints in a wild primate. 
  • Direct questioning is more effective than patient-initiated report for the detection of sexually transmitted infections in a primary care HIV clinic in Western Kenya. 
  • Do clinical decision-support reminders for medical providers improve isoniazid preventative therapy prescription rates among HIV-positive adults? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Does anti-malarial drug knowledge predict anti-malarial dispensing practice in drug outlets? A survey of medicine retailers in western Kenya. 
  • Drivers of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Three Refugee Camps. 
  • Dynamic malaria hotspots in an open cohort in western Kenya. 
  • Effect of a fall in malaria transmission on morbidity and mortality in Kilifi, Kenya. 
  • Effect of point-of-use disinfection, flocculation and combined flocculation-disinfection on drinking water quality in western Kenya. 
  • Efficacy of permethrin-treated bed nets in the prevention of mortality in young children in an area of high perennial malaria transmission in western Kenya. 
  • Endocrinology of year-round reproduction in a highly seasonal habitat: environmental variability in testosterone and glucocorticoids in baboon males. 
  • Engaging the Entire Care Cascade in Western Kenya: A Model to Achieve the Cardiovascular Disease Secondary Prevention Roadmap Goals. 
  • Epidemiology of hepatitis B in eastern Kenya. 
  • Establishing a malaria diagnostics centre of excellence in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • Estimating kidney function in HIV-infected adults in Kenya: comparison to a direct measure of glomerular filtration rate by iohexol clearance. 
  • Etiology of pediatric fever in western Kenya: a case-control study of falciparum malaria, respiratory viruses, and streptococcal pharyngitis. 
  • Evaluating a community-based cervical cancer screening strategy in Western Kenya: a descriptive study. 
  • Evaluating the effects of organizational and educational interventions on adherence to clinical practice guidelines in a low-resource primary-care setting in Kenya. 
  • Evaluation of malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) use by community health workers: a longitudinal study in western Kenya. 
  • Evolution and diversity in human herpes simplex virus genomes. 
  • Evolution of a malaria resistance gene in wild primates. 
  • Factors associated with isolated right heart failure in women: a pilot study from western Kenya. 
  • Factors associated with recurrence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2+ after treatment among HIV-infected women in Western Kenya. 
  • Fine-scale population genetic structure in a fission-fusion society. 
  • Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar's aye-aye. 
  • Genetic effective size of a wild primate population: influence of current and historical demography. 
  • Genetic effects on mating success and partner choice in a social mammal. 
  • Genetic evidence reveals temporal change in hybridization patterns in a wild baboon population. 
  • Genetic mutations in African patients with atrial fibrillation: Rationale and design of the Study of Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation in an African Population (SIGNAL). 
  • Genomewide ancestry and divergence patterns from low-coverage sequencing data reveal a complex history of admixture in wild baboons. 
  • Group Living and Male Dispersal Predict the Core Gut Microbiome in Wild Baboons. 
  • HIV incidence among women using intramuscular depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, a copper intrauterine device, or a levonorgestrel implant for contraception: a randomised, multicentre, open-label trial. 
  • Herpes simplex virus type 2 antibody detection performance in Kisumu, Kenya, using the Herpeselect ELISA, Kalon ELISA, Western blot and inhibition testing. 
  • Heterogeneity in health seeking behaviour for treatment, prevention and urgent care in four districts in western Kenya. 
  • High sensitivity and specificity of clinical microscopy in rural health facilities in western Kenya under an external quality assurance program. 
  • Household Air Pollution Is Associated with Altered Cardiac Function among Women in Kenya. 
  • Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • Household beliefs about malaria testing and treatment in Western Kenya: the role of health worker adherence to malaria test results. 
  • Human candidate gene polymorphisms and risk of severe malaria in children in Kilifi, Kenya: a case-control association study. 
  • Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control in Selected LMIC Communities: Results From the NHLBI/UHG Network of Centers of Excellence for Chronic Diseases. 
  • Hypertension and obesity as cardiovascular risk factors among HIV seropositive patients in Western Kenya. 
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCHOOL-BASED HIV PREVENTION CURRICULUM FOLLOWING NATIONAL DISSEMINATION IN NYANZA PROVINCE, KENYA. 
  • Impact of intermittent screening and treatment for malaria among school children in Kenya: a cluster randomised trial. 
  • Impact of loop electrosurgical excision procedure for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia on HIV-1 genital shedding: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Implementation of management strategies for diabetes and hypertension: from local to global health in cardiovascular diseases. 
  • Improving Access to Cancer Testing and Treatment in Kenya. 
  • Improving rational use of ACTs through diagnosis-dependent subsidies: Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in western Kenya. 
  • Increasing access to the MDR-TB surveillance programme through a collaborative model in western Kenya. 
  • Individual, family, and culture level contributions to child physical abuse and neglect: A longitudinal study in nine countries. 
  • Individual- and family-level psychosocial correlates of HIV risk behavior among youth in rural Kenya. 
  • Innovative public-private partnership to target subsidised antimalarials: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate a community intervention in Western Kenya. 
  • Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya. 
  • Kenyan Plasmodium falciparum field isolates: correlation between pyrimethamine and chlorcycloguanil activity in vitro and point mutations in the dihydrofolate reductase domain. 
  • Knowledge about cervical cancer screening and perception of risk among women attending outpatient clinics in rural Kenya. 
  • Letter: Humerus of robust Australopithecus. 
  • Life at the top: rank and stress in wild male baboons. 
  • Loop electrosurgical excision procedure: safety and tolerability among human immunodeficiency virus-positive Kenyan women. 
  • Low multiplication rates of African Plasmodium falciparum isolates and lack of association of multiplication rate and red blood cell selectivity with malaria virulence. 
  • Malaria severity and human nitric oxide synthase type 2 (NOS2) promoter haplotypes. 
  • Markers of Atherosclerosis, Clinical Characteristics, and Treatment Patterns in Heart Failure: A Case-Control Study of Middle-Aged Adult Heart Failure Patients in Rural Kenya. 
  • Medicine in developing countries. Do schools hold the key to controlling parasitic disease? 
  • Medroxyprogesterone acetate levels among Kenyan women using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate in the FEM-PrEP trial. 
  • Men's knowledge and attitudes about cervical cancer screening in Kenya. 
  • Metabolic Syndrome Among Antiretroviral Therapy-Naive Versus Experienced HIV-Infected Patients Without Preexisting Cardiometabolic Disorders in Western Kenya. 
  • Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self-reports. 
  • Mothers', fathers' and children's perceptions of parents' expectations about children's family obligations in nine countries. 
  • Motivation and satisfaction among community health workers administering rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in Western Kenya. 
  • Motivations for Reducing Other HIV Risk-Reduction Practices if Taking Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Findings from a Qualitative Study Among Women in Kenya and South Africa. 
  • Multiple cardiovascular risk factors in Kenya: evidence from a health and demographic surveillance system using the WHO STEPwise approach to chronic disease risk factor surveillance. 
  • Naturally acquired antibodies to sporozoites do not prevent malaria: vaccine development implications. 
  • Nurse management of hypertension in rural western Kenya: implementation research to optimize delivery. 
  • Optimizing linkage and retention to hypertension care in rural Kenya (LARK hypertension study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Orphan status, HIV risk behavior, and mental health among adolescents in rural Kenya. 
  • Outcomes Up to 12 Months After Treatment With Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure for Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia Among HIV-Infected Women. 
  • Parenting, culture, and the development of externalizing behaviors from age 7 to 14 in nine countries. 
  • Participants' Explanations for Nonadherence in the FEM-PrEP Clinical Trial. 
  • Participatory mapping in low-resource settings: Three novel methods used to engage Kenyan youth and other community members in community-based HIV prevention research. 
  • Perceived mother and father acceptance-rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries. 
  • Performance of p16INK4a ELISA as a primary cervical cancer screening test among a large cohort of HIV-infected women in western Kenya: a 2-year cross-sectional study. 
  • Permethrin-impregnated curtains and bed-nets prevent malaria in western Kenya. 
  • Pilot assessment of the sensitivity of the malaria thin film. 
  • Plasmodium falciparum, anaemia and cognitive and educational performance among school children in an area of moderate malaria transmission: baseline results of a cluster randomized trial on the coast of Kenya. 
  • Policy environment for prevention, control and management of cardiovascular diseases in primary health care in Kenya. 
  • Positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior in eight countries. 
  • Post-traumatic stress after terrorist attack: psychological reactions following the US embassy bombing in Nairobi: Naturalistic study. 
  • Posttraumatic stress and functional impairment in Kenyan children following the 1998 American Embassy bombing. 
  • Preparing for the Rollout of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Vignette Survey to Identify Intended Sexual Behaviors among Women in Kenya and South Africa if Using PrEP. 
  • Prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes of HIV-positive women diagnosed with invasive cancer of the cervix in Kenya. 
  • Psychiatric disorders after terrorist bombings among rescue workers and bombing survivors in Nairobi and rescue workers in Oklahoma City. 
  • Puberty and dispersal in a wild primate population. 
  • Q Fever, Scrub Typhus, and Rickettsial Diseases in Children, Kenya, 2011-2012. 
  • Quality of Care and Contraceptive Use in Urban Kenya. 
  • Quantifying the impact of accessibility on preventive healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa using mobile phone data. 
  • Relationship between exposure, clinical malaria, and age in an area of changing transmission intensity. 
  • Relevant microclimate for determining the development rate of malaria mosquitoes and possible implications of climate change. 
  • Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. 
  • Risk factors for cervical precancer detection among previously unscreened HIV-infected women in Western Kenya. 
  • Safety of the loop electrosurgical excision procedure performed by clinical officers in an HIV primary care setting. 
  • Screening for diabetes and hypertension in a rural low income setting in western Kenya utilizing home-based and community-based strategies. 
  • Seroepidemiological Study of Interepidemic Rift Valley Fever Virus Infection Among Persons with Intense Ruminant Exposure in Madagascar and Kenya. 
  • Service delivery characteristics associated with contraceptive use among youth clients in integrated voluntary counseling and HIV testing clinics in Kenya. 
  • Shifting patterns: malaria dynamics and rainfall variability in an African highland. 
  • Sino-implant (II)® continuation and effect of concomitant tenofovir disoproxil fumarate-emtricitabine use on plasma levonorgestrel concentrations among women in Bondo, Kenya. 
  • Social affiliation matters: both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships predict survival in wild female baboons. 
  • Social bonds of female baboons enhance infant survival. 
  • Social status predicts wound healing in wild baboons. 
  • Spatial autocorrelation in uptake of antenatal care and relationship to individual, household and village-level factors: results from a community-based survey of pregnant women in six districts in western Kenya. 
  • Spatial distribution of bednet coverage under routine distribution through the public health sector in a rural district in Kenya. 
  • Study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial to compare human papillomavirus based cervical cancer screening in community-health campaigns versus health facilities in western Kenya. 
  • The Bakri tamponade balloon as an adjunct treatment for refractory postpartum hemorrhage. 
  • The aging baboon: comparative demography in a non-human primate. 
  • The association between parental warmth and control in thirteen cultural groups. 
  • The association between price, competition, and demand factors on private sector anti-malarial stocking and sales in western Kenya: considerations for the AMFm subsidy. 
  • The association of HIV counseling and testing with HIV risk behaviors in a random population-based survey in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • The course of postdisaster psychiatric disorders in directly exposed civilians after the US Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya: a follow-up study. 
  • The endocrinology of pregnancy and fetal loss in wild baboons. 
  • The geography of malaria genetics in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A complex and fragmented landscape. 
  • The impact of primary health care on malaria morbidity--defining access by disease burden. 
  • The science of being a study participant: FEM-PrEP participants' explanations for overreporting adherence to the study pills and for the whereabouts of unused pills. 
  • The sexual risk context among the FEM-PrEP study population in Bondo, Kenya and Pretoria, South Africa. 
  • Tooth size variation related to age in Amboseli baboons. 
  • Trauma, grief and depression in Nairobi children after the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy. 
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Infectious Encephalopathy in Children From Four Resource-Limited Settings in Africa. 
  • True paternal care in a multi-male primate society. 
  • Two complement receptor one alleles have opposing associations with cerebral malaria and interact with α+thalassaemia. 
  • Understanding the link between malaria risk and climate. 
  • Using pay for performance incentives (P4P) to improve management of suspected malaria fevers in rural Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Validation of spirometry prediction equations in western Kenya. 
  • When and why women might suspend PrEP use according to perceived seasons of risk: implications for PrEP-specific risk-reduction counselling. 
  • White monkey syndrome and presumptive copper deficiency in wild savannah baboons. 
  • Widow cleansing and inheritance among the Luo in Kenya: the need for additional women-centred HIV prevention options. 
  • World Health Organization's stage 4 conditions among adults accessing outpatient HIV care: a retrospective cohort study in Kisumu, Kenya. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Broverman, Sherryl A., Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology, Biology
  • Kelly, Roy, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • O'Meara, Wendy P, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Tung, Jenny, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke Science & Society
  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship