Urban Poor Kenyan Women and Hospital-Based Delivery

Gender scripts and unwanted pregnancy among urban Kenyan women.

Women's lived experiences and lay accounts of unwanted pregnancy remain poorly interrogated. We investigated portrayals of unwanted pregnancy using narrative data gathered from 80 women in Nairobi, Kenya. Unwanted pregnancy had a diversity of significance for the women. Pregnancies were not simply unwanted because they occurred when women became pregnant without wanting to. Rather, pregnancies ...

Psychiatric morbidity among HIV-infected children and adolescents in a resource-poor Kenyan urban community.

The course of HIV/AIDS in children has been transformed from an acute to a chronic one with the advent of Anti-Retroviral Therapy. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of psychiatric morbidity in HIV-infected children and adolescents between 6 and 18 years of age and the relationship between their socio-demographic factors, immune suppression and psychiatric morbidi...

Poor Quality for Poor Women? Inequities in the Quality of Antenatal and Delivery Care in Kenya

BACKGROUND Quality of healthcare is an important determinant of future progress in global health. However, the distributional aspects of quality of care have received inadequate attention. We assessed whether high quality maternal care is equitably distributed by (1) mapping the quality of maternal care in facilities located in poorer versus wealthier areas of Kenya; and (2) comparing the quali...

The Health of Poor Urban Women: Findings from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change

What women think: hypothetical notions of screening for intimate partner violence in Kenyan hospital settings

Background Although screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) is current health policy in northern countries [1], developing country contexts such as Kenya have yet to adopt this practice. There are good reasons for this hesitation, given that strong health systems should ideally be in place prior to the introduction of such screening. However, the current emergence of one-stop centers for ...