BACKGROUND Street-connected youth are a neglected and vulnerable population, particularly in resource-constrained settings. The development of interventions and supports for this population requires insight into how they live. This study describes the social and economic characteristics of a convenience sample of street youth (SY) in Eldoret, Kenya. METHODS Participants were eligible if they ...

1. Background This article focuses on khat production and its trade, (particularly in northern Kenya), its background, magnitude and structure. The study is based on fieldwork in the area during 1973 and 1974 and some follow-up visits there and in neighbouring countries. The "present tense" in the paper normally refers to a situation some five years ago which might have changed. The perspective...

OBJECTIVES Young people in Tanzania are known to access reproductive health services from a range of close-to-community providers outside formal health settings such as drug stores, village AIDS committees, traditional healers and traditional birth attendants (TBAs). However, questions remain about the quality of services such agents provide. This study investigated their capacity to provide ad...

BACKGROUND Understanding the interactions between malaria and agriculture in Tanzania is of particular significance when considering that they are the major sources of illness and livelihoods. The objective of this study was to determine knowledge, perceptions and practices as regards to malaria, climate change, livelihoods and food insecurity in a rural farming community in central Tanzania. ...

BACKGROUND studies on the relationship between children's malocclusion and its psycho-social impacts are so far largely unexplored in low-income countries. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of malocclusion, reported dental problems and dissatisfaction with dental appearance among primary school children in Tanzania. The relationship of dissatisfaction with socio-demographic characterist...

Introduction: Adolescent mental health challenges have been identified as a public concern globally, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), due to the scarcity of services, where help-seeking is often hampered by social stigma. A strategy increase availability services implement, brief, stigma-free, scalable interventions. The Shamiri Intervention (the Kiswahili word for “thriv...

Abstract Background Health care workers in Kenya have launched major strikes the public health sector past decade but impact of on systems is under-explored. We conducted a qualitative study to investigate maternal and child services during nationwide by 2017 from perspective pregnant women, community volunteers (CHVs), facility managers. Methods in-depth interviews focus group discussions (FGD...

"It is now right and proper to [...] make certain suggestions which could help future compilers of dictionaries of African languages, whoever they may be, to avoid some of the more obvious pitfalls. [...] there are no rules laid down for lexicographers, and whatever has been learnt by toil and sweat, by trial and error, is worth passing on. [...] One cardinal principle which emerges from our st...

Abstract Background The use of a decision aid in clinical settings has been beneficial. It informs and educates patients about the available treatment options that can help them reduce decision-making conflicts related to feeling uninformed compared with routine care. There is scarcity published data using during family planning counseling postpartum women focusing on long-acting reversible con...