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"Your Behavior Is Not Welcome Here" : Forced Internal Displacement of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Kenya
(Frontiers, 2025)While migration studies have boomed, little is mentioned about internal displacement of queer persons. In Kenya, internal displacement of sexual and gender minorities is often overlooked and not well understood, which ... -
Examining the Associations between Social Support and Postpartum Depression Symptoms among Adolescent Mothers in Nairobi, Kenya
(BMC, 2025)This study aimed to measure the prevalence of postpartum depressive symptoms and explore the association between different forms of social support and postpartum depressive symptoms. In this study, one-quarter of adolescent ... -
Editorial Practices of African Journals: A Qualitative Analysis From Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Mozambique
(VeriXiv, 2025)This study explores existing editorial practices among African journals operating in Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Mozambique. It investigates underlying factors influencing these practices and examines authors� perspectives ... -
Pharmacogenomics in Africa: A Potential Catalyst for Precision Medicine in Genetically Diverse Populations
(Annual Reviews, 2025)Genetic variation is a major determinant of drug response across populations. Owing to advances in sequencing technologies over the last two decades, several clinically actionable variants or haplotypes have been characterized ... -
Addressing Research Readiness Challenges in African Institutions: Development and Application of a Modular Assessment Tool
(VeriXiv, 2025)A modular, context?specific Research Readiness Assessment Survey (RRAS) was developed to evaluate institutional research capacity across African institutions. This tool is designed to identify key readiness challenges, ... -
Translation and Validation of the German Version of the Pet-related Stress Scale
(2025)Pet related stress refers to the stress of living with a pet. The aim of this study was to translate and validate the German version of the Pet Related Stress Scale (PRSS G), and to establish reference values. Data were ... -
Validity and Reliability of the Sanitation-related Quality of Life Index (sanqol-5) in Six Countries
(Nature, 2025)Sustainable Development Goal�6.2 measures sanitation progress by toilet type. However, improving people�s subjective sanitation experiences�such as feeling safe, avoiding disgust, maintaining privacy, reducing shame, and ... -
Willingness-to-pay and Costs for Novel Manual Emptying Services for Shared Onsite Sanitation Facilities in an Informal Settlement of Nairobi, Kenya
(London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2025)This study evaluates willingness-to-pay (WTP) and cost structures for innovative, group-based manual emptying services for onsite sanitation in low-income urban settlements. Combining household surveys with service provider ... -
How Informal Water Markets Serve the Urban Population: Dynamics of Invisible Hand in Nairobi’s Water Sector
(PLOS, 2025)Globally, attaining universal access to safe, affordable drinking water remains a major challenge. In two informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, this qualitative study investigates three modalities of informal water ... -
Barriers and Enablers for Group-based Manual Emptying Services for Onsite Sanitation Facilities in Nairobi, Kenya: a Qualitative Study
(Elsevier, 2025)Onsite sanitation, such as pit latrines, is essential to achieving universal access to safe sanitation, as outlined in Sustainable Development Goal?6.2. However, manual emptying for pit latrines in low?income areas is often ...
