Categories exempted from paying for the services include patients who present to health facilities with Covid-19 symptoms, contact of people who have tested positive for Covid-19, community surveys to establish the extent of spread of the virus, surveillance samples and...
It is a heavy price that Kenyans and its land-locked neighbours have had to pay. But behind the facade, under-currents with far-reaching consequences are hard at play. Here is the untold story camouflaged in the red-herring of "tribal skirmishes". In the beginning, it all appeared as...
However, Vilalta-Perdomo and Hingley (2018) provide an alternative view looking at food-micro producers more as a community rather than links in a chain using information from six in-depth interviews, an online survey, and telephone surveys. They highlight that collaboration does not necessarily ...
This is signaled by the evaluation of repetitive agricultural surveys in multiple Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, which shows that the distribution of farm sizes is shifting rapidly (Jayne et al., 2016). After a long period of small-scale farm (SSF) domination, there has been an ...
Baseline surveys, which took approximately 40 min to complete, concluded with a question asking respondents if they would agree to be contacted again. Questions about familiarity with a consumer finance mechanism, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) LPG, were asked to a subset of participants at baseline. ...
Poor data quality in Kenya makes sexual violence difficult to study. Researchers measure crime patterns using self-report surveys to gather information about incidents that, in many cases, happened long ago. Such data may not be accurate for a host of possible reasons, including forgetting, or re...
Researchers measure crime patterns using self-report surveys to gather information about incidents that, in many cases, happened long ago. Such data may not be accurate for a host of possible reasons, including forgetting, or respondents' fear of being judged, endangered, or penalised, which in ...
(median reported times between recognition of outbreak and deployment of vaccines in Uganda of 25 and 52 days in two separate surveys [49,52]) and underreporting of disease events, compounded by difficulty delivering veterinary service to remote areas. Vaccination is used primarily as a reactive ...