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Victor Akelo

Researcher at Kenya Medical Research Institute

Publications -  39
Citations -  489

Victor Akelo is an academic researcher from Kenya Medical Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 26 publications receiving 259 citations. Previous affiliations of Victor Akelo include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.

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Initial findings from a novel population-based child mortality surveillance approach: a descriptive study.

Allan W. Taylor, +87 more
TL;DR: Data obtained in the first 2 years after the implementation of CHAMPS at the first five operational sites, during which surveillance and post-mortem diagnostics, including minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS), were used, were analysed to improve the accuracy of determining causes of death.
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Attitudes toward family planning among HIV-positive pregnant women enrolled in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission study in Kisumu, Kenya.

TL;DR: A significant gap exists between future FP intentions and current FP practices, and integration of individual and couple FP services into routine HIV care, treatment and support services is needed in order to avoid unintended pregnancies and to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
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A Smartphone Game-Based Intervention (Tumaini) to Prevent HIV Among Young Africans: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

TL;DR: The intervention arm showed significant gains in sexual health-related knowledge and self-efficacy and behavioral intention for risk-avoidance strategies and sexual risk communication compared with the control arm at T3, which supports the need for further research to assess the efficacy of the game-based intervention.
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A Smartphone Game to Prevent HIV Among Young Africans (Tumaini): Assessing Intervention and Study Acceptability Among Adolescents and Their Parents in a Randomized Controlled Trial.

TL;DR: This study shows the strong acceptability of an interactive smartphone-based game both to adolescents and their parents in western Kenya and that of the study methods used to pilot-test the intervention, and suggests that longitudinal efficacy studies of this type of intervention, including those using biomarkers, have the potential to be acceptable among parents.