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Meeting the WHO Physical Activity Guidelines Is Associated With Lower Odds of Depression in Older Adults: Potential Psychosomatic Mechanisms.
(The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2024)Limited data exist on the association between physical activity (PA) and depression in older adults from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In this study, we examine the association between meeting the World Health ... -
Lessons From the Deployment and Management of Public Handwashing Stations in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya: A Cross-Sectional, Observational Study
(PLOSResearchGate, 2024)During the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya, handwashing stations were distributed by the National Business Compact Coalition (NBCC) to help combat the virus. This study evaluated 316 of these stations across five counties, ... -
Enterococcus Contamination of Infant Foods and Implications for Exposure to Food-Borne Pathogens in Peri-Urban Neighborhoods of Kisumu, Kenya.
(Cambridge University PressPubMed Central, 2024)We collected infant food samples from 714 households in Kisumu, Kenya, and estimated the prevalence and concentration of Enterococcus, an indicator of food hygiene conditions. In a subset of 212 households, we quantified ... -
Development of a Protocol for Using Geo-Trackers to Identify Zoonotic Enteric Pathogen Transmission Pathways in a Pilot Study in Kenya
(Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International(CABI), 2024)Humans and animals can be exposed to fecally-transmitted pathogens in both private and public domain environments. Animals may also acquire pathogen infections from these two environments and transmit them to humans through ... -
Shared Sanitation in Informal Settlements: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence, Preferences, and Quality
(Science Direct, 2024)Shared sanitation facilities are not considered a type of basic sanitation by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), though they may be the only alternative to open defecation in urban informal settlements. ... -
Sanitation Services for the Urban Poor: A Social Capital Approach to Sanitation Challenges in Informal Settlements
(PLOS, 2024)Poorly managed sanitation is degrading, unhealthy and far too dominant among the urban poor. The conventional solution to poorly managed onsite sanitation and/or open defecation is for governments to provide adequate ... -
Determinants of Willingness to Pay for Fecal Sludge Management Services and Knowledge Gaps: A Scoping Review.
(American Chemical Society, 2024)Achieving universal access to safely managed sanitation services is one of the Sustainable Development Goal 6 targets (SDG6.2). The cost and availability of services to ensure the safe management of on-site sanitation, ... -
Accessibility of Digital Systems in Information Retrieval by Users With Visual Impairment
(Emerald Insight, 2024)This paper aims to evaluate the accessibility of digital information systems as a key usability attribute in information retrieval by users with visual impairment (VI), to inform development of accessible information ... -
Long-Term Impacts of a Cash Plus Program on Marriage, Fertility, and Education After Six Years in Pastoralist Kenya: A Cluster Randomized Trial
(PubMed CentralScience Direct, 2024)Preventing early marriage by increasing girls education has shown promise. We assessed the effects of a two-year cash plus program on marriage and fertility in a pastoralist setting in Northeastern Kenya, six years after ... -
Equality in Programming for Girls and Boys: Adolescents' Shared Experiences From an After-School Support Program in Urban Nairobi
(Walden University, 2024)There has been marked progress in access to education, representation of women in leadership, sexual reproductive health, and gender-based violence as a result of gender equality initiatives. However, there is still a ...
