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Victor Mudhune

Researcher at Kenya Medical Research Institute

Publications -  15
Citations -  225

Victor Mudhune is an academic researcher from Kenya Medical Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Focus group. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 12 publications receiving 139 citations.

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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.
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Correlation of Adherence by Pill Count, Self-report, MEMS and Plasma Drug Levels to Treatment Response Among Women Receiving ARV Therapy for PMTCT in Kenya.

TL;DR: Although CD4 cell count increased substantially over time, there was no significant association with adherence by the methods, and persons with ≥95% adherence by any method used in this study were more likely to have a favorable treatment outcome.