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Effects of sanitary pad distribution and reproductive health education on upper primary school attendance and reproductive health knowledge and attitudes in Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that neither sanitary pad distribution nor RH education, on their own or together, were sufficient to improve primary school attendance, however, as the RH education intervention improved RH outcomes, the evidence suggests that sanitary pads distribution and RH education can be positioned in broader RH programming for girls.
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Forewarning of poliovirus outbreaks in the Horn of Africa: an assessment of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance and routine immunization systems in Kenya.
Allison Taylor Walker,Samir V. Sodha,Wick Warren,Kibet Sergon,Shem Kiptoon,John Ogange,Abdi Hassan Ahmeda,Messeret Eshetu,Melissa Corkum,Satish K. Pillai,Heather M. Scobie,Rennatus Mdodo,Danielle M. Tack,Cara N. Halldin,Kristie E. Appelgren,Katrina Kretsinger,Diana M. Bensyl,Ian Njeru,Titus Kolongei,Juliet Muigai,Amina Ismail,Samuel Okiror +21 more
TL;DR: Gap analysis assists in maximizing resources and capacity building in countries where surveillance and routine immunization lag behind other health priorities and indicates a risk for additional outbreaks of wild poliovirus and other vaccine-preventable illnesses.
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Contraceptive practices and fertility desires among HIV-infected and uninfected women in Kenya: results from a nationally representative study.
Evelyn W. Ngugi,Andrea A. Kim,Raymond Nyoka,Lucy Ng’ang’a,Irene Mukui,Bernadette Ngeno,George W. Rutherford +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the utilization of family planning and fertility desires among women of reproductive age by HIV status and found that women with known HIV infection had similar odds of using FP as women with no HIV infection (odds ratio, 1.12; 95% confidence interval: 0.81 to 1.54).
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A protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial testing an empowerment intervention to prevent sexual assault in upper primary school adolescents in the informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya
Clea Sarnquist,Jennifer Lee Kang,Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo,Gabriel Oguda,Dorothy Otieno,Benjamin Mboya,Nancy Omondi,Duncan Kipkirui,Michael Baiocchi +8 more
TL;DR: This was the first randomized controlled trial with longitudinal follow-up of an empowerment self-defense approach to violence prevention for adolescents in informal settlements and was unique in its focus on young (10–14 years of age) adolescents and in engaging both boys and girls in separate but coordinated curriculums.
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Poverty, partner discord, and divergent accounts; a mixed methods account of births before arrival to health facilities in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
Shannon A. McMahon,Shannon A. McMahon,Rachel P. Chase,Peter J. Winch,Joy J. Chebet,Giulia V R Besana,Idda H. Mosha,Zaina Sheweji,Caitlin E. Kennedy +8 more
TL;DR: As efforts continue to promote facility birth, this work highlights the financial demands associated with facility delivery and the potential for these demands to place women at a heightened risk for BBAs.
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