The effect of HIV AIDS on Life Insurance business in KenyaLuke Wanjohi
"Six years of rigorous scientific research has proved that PrEP is highly effective in preventing HIV transmission. Clinical trials in South Africa have indicated it has over 90 percent efficacy," said the head of reproductive health at Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nelly Mugo. Kenya became the...
Nurse-led palliative care for HIV-positive patients taking antiretroviral therapy in Kenya: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet HIV. 2015;2(8):e328-e334.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 59. Rummans TA, Clark MM, Sloan JA, et al. Impacting quality of life for patients with advanced cancer ...
“She was an HIV positive patient and present in pain and required multiple teeth to be extracted. She told us that she had been to many other local clinics but was denied the care due to the stigmatization of her condition.” Despite these challenges, the learners observed initiatives aimed...
Institute for International and Comparative Law (ICLA), Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria A person with visual impairment residing in Dire Dawa – Ethiopia’s second largest city in the Eastern part of the country – was recently reported to have set himself on fire in broad daylight and...
In this way, the whole family is often stigmatized if any one member is publicly known to be HIV positive. Others may believe that the entire family engages in unhealthy or unwholesome behaviour. More often, the family is blamed for permitting the risky behaviours that led to HIV infection. ...
Kenya is an East African nation that has been seriously impacted by HIV with an estimated 1.5 million (1.3 million – 1.8 million) PLWHA in 2015 [6]. Because the SF-12 can describe a large range of health states, it can be a particularly useful tool to evaluate the health of people ...
We estimated the prevalence of HIV-associated vulnerabilities at first sex, and their association with lifetime gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV.#We conducted a cross-sectional biobehavioral survey among AGYW (14-24 years) in Mombasa, Kenya in 2015. We compared the prevalence of first sex ...
Kisumu is a pretty developed city in Kenya, the third largest in the country, but several parts are impoverished and stuck in cycles of poverty. Those slums — those are the targets for this team. We rode with a group of 3 Kenyans who have dedicated their lives to caring for the most...
90% of all HIV positive people, provide ART for 90% of those diagnosed and achieve viral suppression for 90% of those on treatment [32]. The decreasing mortality and incidence of new infection following improve access to HAART had changed the nature of HIV disease from terminal to long-term...