Health and Wellbeing: Recent submissions
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Assessment of Demand Versus Supply of Cancer Services in Kenya
(Countdown to 20230MoH Kenya, 2023)Kenya, like other developing countries, is undergoing an epidemiological transition marked by a decline in morbidity and mortality due to communicable conditions, and an increase in the burden of non communicable diseases ... -
Second Consultative Workshop on Research Data Access and Use for Public Health Decision-Making Meeting Brief December 2023
(APHRC and KEMRI, 2023-12)Delegates from Ministry of Health, County Departments of Health, health facilities, and academia/ research convened on 17th October 2023 for a Second Consultative Workshop on Research Data Access and Use for Public ... -
Stakeholder Engagement to Identify Priority Pathogens for Serosurveillance in Kenya: Meeting Brief January 2024
(APHRC and KEMRI, 2024)We engaged experts in infectious disease surveillance to help identify pathogens that should be prioritized for serosurveillance in Kenya. A carefully selected group of respondents were invited to participate in ... -
Consultative Workshop on Research Data Access and Use for Public Health Decision-Making: Briefing June 2023
(APHRC and KEMRI, 2023-06)There is a lack of clarity on the extent to which surveillance data generated by researchers/ academia are accessible to policy/ decision makers. This is particularly true at the sub-national level. Even when accessible, ... -
High Prevalence of Antibodies Against COVID-19 Within the General Population: Evidence from Nairobi and Kilifi
(2022-06-30)By May 2022, 69% of individuals residing within the Kilifi Health and Demographic System (HDSS) and 91% residing within the Nairobi Urban HDSS had evidence of an immune response to COVID-19 resulting from natural infection ... -
COVID-19 and Human Rights: Perspectives and lived experiences of the Urban Poor in Kenya with regards to government COVID-19 response measures.
(2021)The COVID-19 outbreak, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020, was first reported in China and has since spread across the globe. This sent the world into a state of panic. After the ... -
Lived experiences and pathways to abortion in Kilifi County, Kenya
(2021)Though teenage pregnancy rates have declined substantially, from 35% in 2018 to 13.4% in 2021, challenges surrounding the sexual reproductive health of adolescent girls and young women persist. -
COVID19 and Community Healthcare Mobile health consulting as an option for improved access to healthcare in Nairobi's slums
(2021)Mobile phone communication technology has increasingly been suggested as an option for the delivery of healthcare services globally (1–3). In Kenya, this technology provides numerous opportunities for the improved provision ... -
Improving slum health: Current health service delivery models for the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya
(2021)In the race to sustainable development by nations, it is appreciated that no one should be left behind. In addition, universal health coverage is needed to ensure sustainable development. Rapid urbanization in Kenya, as ... -
Basic maternal and child health continuum of care in regional Kenya.
(2021)This policy brief highlights descriptive findings of the maternal and child health (MCH) continuum of health care in rural/semi-rural western Kenya. The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and Amsterdam ...
