July 2021

ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic has had a ripple effect on all our lives, changing our work, leisure, sleeping patterns, food habits and everyday lives. Persons with disabilities, especially those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), have borne the biggest brunt of the pandemic, being marginalised and side-lined in aspects of medical treatment, accessibility to public […]

ABSTRACT The human immunodeficiency virus is the cause of AIDS, which attacks the body’s immune system. This retrovirus transmits through blood, semen, and breast milk that infects immune cells and destroying their functions. In 1995, Food and Drug Administration approved highly active antiretroviral therapy treatment, which has accelerated the abrupt drop of between 60% and

ABSTRACT Community health services are the mechanism through which households and communities increase their knowledge and skills in disease control and plan interventions. A mixed method cross-sectional baseline household survey was carried out in Migori and Kwale counties which constituted the intervention and control study sites respectively. The primary study participants were heads of households

ABSTRACT This study describes the lives of people in the buffer area of Alaspurvo National Park, especially Kutorejo Village Kalipait Hamlet, which has local wisdom in the form of many traditions, rules, and abstinences that are still passed down through generations.This local wisdom has the value of ecological intelligence about the relationship of human activity