Health and Wellbeing: Recent submissions
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Basic Determinants of Child Linear Growth Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Sectional Survey Analysis of Positive Deviants in Poor Households.
(National Library of MedicineScientific reports, 2022)Childhood malnutrition is a significant public health problem confronting countries across the globe. Although there is evidence of a downward trend in undernutrition globally, sub-Saharan Africa did not experience significant ... -
Awareness and Uptake of the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored and Safe HIV Prevention Package Over Time Among Population-Based Cohorts of Young Women in Kenya and South Africa
(National Library of MedicineScience Open, 2022)Objectives: To evaluate uptake of a complex intervention for HIV prevention among general populations of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in three diverse settings. Design: Cohorts of ?1500 AGYW were randomly ... -
Impacts of Multisectoral Cash Plus Programs on Marriage and Fertility After 4 Years in Pastoralist Kenya: A Randomized Trial
(National Library of MedicineScience Direct, 2022)Purpose: Early marriage has multiple drivers including cultural and social norms alongside lack of educational and economic opportunities. This complexity may explain why few programs have demonstrated marriage delays and ... -
Short- and Long-Read Metagenomics of Urban and Rural South African Gut Microbiomes Reveal a Transitional Composition and Undescribed Taxa
(National Library of MedicineNature Communications, 2022)Human gut microbiome research focuses on populations living in high-income countries and to a lesser extent, non-urban agriculturalist and hunter-gatherer societies. The scarcity of research between these extremes limits ... -
Tale of 22 Cities: Utilisation Patterns and Content of Maternal Care in Large African Cities.
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Introduction: Globally, the majority of births happen in urban areas. Ensuring that women and their newborns benefit from a complete package of high-quality care during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period present ... -
Meta-Analysis of Sub-Saharan African Studies Provides Insights Into Genetic Architecture of Lipid Traits
(National Library of MedicineNature Communications, 2022)Genetic associations for lipid traits have identified hundreds of variants with clear differences across European, Asian and African studies. Based on a sub-Saharan-African GWAS for lipid traits in the population cross-sectional ... -
Perspective: Food Environment Research Priorities for Africa: Lessons from the Africa Food Environment Research Network
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Over the last 2 decades, many African countries have undergone dietary and nutrition transitions fueled by globalization, rapid urbanization, and development. These changes have altered African food environments and, ... -
Low Hemoglobin Levels Are Associated with Reduced Psychomotor and Language Abilitiesin Young Ugandan Children.
(National Library of MedicineMDPI, 2022)Children living in Sub-Saharan Africa are vulnerable to developmental delay, particularly in the critical first five years due to various adverse exposures including disease and nutritional deficiencies. Anemia and iron ... -
Prevalence and Overlap of Known Undernutrition Risk Factors in Children in Nairobi Kenya.
(National Library of MedicineWiley Online Library, 2022)We aimed to describe the co-occurrence of known risk factors for undernutrition and the prevalence of modifiable risks in wasted, stunted and healthy children. Quota sampling was used to recruit healthy [weight for age Z ... -
Perspectives on Returning Individual and Aggregate Genomic Research Results to Study Participants and Communities in Kenya: A Qualitative Study.
(National Library of MedicineBMC Medical Ethics, 2022)Background: A fundamental ethical challenge in conducting genomics research is the question of what and how individual level genetic findings and aggregate genomic results should be conveyed to research participants and ...
