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Efect of care environment on educational attainment among orphaned and separated children and adolescents in Western Kenya

Apedaile, Dorothy; DeLong, Allison; Sang, Edwin; Ayuku, David; Atwoli, Lukoye; Galárraga, Omar; Braitstein, Paula (BMC, 2022-01-18)

Background: There are approximately 140 million orphaned and separated children (OSCA) around the world. In Kenya, many of these children live with extended family while others live in institutions. Despite evidence that ...
Effect of care environment on educational attainment among orphaned and separated children and adolescents in Western Kenya

Apedaile, Dorothy; DeLong, Allison; Sang, Edwin; Galárraga, Omar; Braitstein, Paula; Ayuku4, David; Atwoli, Lukoye (BMC Public Health, 2022)

Background: There are approximately 140 million orphaned and separated children (OSCA) around the world. In Kenya, many of these children live with extended family while others live in institutions. Despite evidence ...
Gaussian process emulation to improve efficiency of computationally intensive multidisease models: a practical tutorial with adaptable R code

Sawe, Sharon Jepkorir; Mugo, Richard; Wilson‑Barthes, Marta; Osetinsky, Brianna; Chrysanthopoulou, Stavroula A.; Yego, Faith; Mwangi, Ann; Galárraga, Omar (2024-01-27)

Background The rapidly growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has expanded the number of multidisease models predicting future care needs and health ...
HIV prevention costs and their predictors: evidence from the ORPHEA Project in Kenya

Galárraga, Omar; Wamai, Richard G.; Nyakundi, Helen; Wang’ombe, Joseph K.; Mugo, Mercy G. (Oxford academic, 2017)

We estimate costs and their predictors for three HIV prevention interventions in Kenya: HIV testing and counselling (HTC), prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) and voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). ...
Incorporating respondent‑driven sampling into web‑based discrete choice experiments: preferences for COVID‑19 mitigation measures

Johnson, Courtney A; Tran, Dan N; Mwangi, Ann; Sosa‑Rubí, Sandra G.; Chivardi, Carlos; Romero‑Martínez, Martín; Pastakia, Sonak; Robinson, Elisha; Mayo‑Wilson, Larissa Jennings; Galárraga, Omar (Springer, 2021-11-25)

To slow the spread of COVID-19, most countries implemented stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and other nonpharmaceutical mitigation strategies. To understand individual preferences for mitigation strategies, we ...
Integrated community-based HIV and non-communicable disease care within microfinance groups in Kenya: study protocol for the Harambee cluster randomised trial

Genberg, Becky L.; Wachira, Juddy; Steingrimsson, Jon A; Pastakia, Sonak; Tran, Dan N Tina; Said, Jamil AbdulKadir; Braitstein, Paula; Hogan, Joseph W.; Vedanthan, Rajesh; Goodrich, Suzanne; Kafu, Catherine; Wilson-Barthes, Marta; Galárraga, Omar (BMJ, 2021-04-27)

Introduction In Kenya, distance to health facilities, inefficient vertical care delivery and limited financial means are barriers to retention in HIV care. Furthermore, the increasing burden of non-communicable ...
Integrating community-based HIV and non communicable disease care with microfinance groups: A formative study in Western Kenya

Kafu, Catherine; Wachira, Juddy; Omodi, Victor; Said, Jamil; Pastakia, Sonak D; Tran, Dan; Onyango, Jael Adongo; Aburi, Dan; Wilson-Barthes, Marta; Galárraga, Omar; Genberg, Becky Lynn (Research square, 2022-03-29)

Background: The Harambee Study is a cluster randomized trial in western Kenya that tests the effect, mechanisms, and cost-effectiveness of integrating community-based HIV and non-communicable disease (NCD) care with group ...
Integrating community-based HIV and non-communicable disease care with microfinance groups: a feasibility study in Western Kenya

Kafu, Catherine; Wachira, Juddy; Omodi, Victor; Said, Jamil; Pastakia, Sonak D.; Tran, Dan N.; Onyango, Jael Adongo; Aburi, Dan; Wilson‑Barthes, Marta; Galárraga, Omar; Lynn Genberg, Becky (BMC, 2022-12-28)

Background: The Harambee study is a cluster randomized trial in Western Kenya that tests the effect, mechanisms, and cost‑effectiveness of integrating community‑based HIV and non‑communicable disease care within ...
Layering and scaling up chronic non‐communicable disease care on existing HIV care systems and acute care settings in Kenya: a cost and budget impact analysis

Osetinsky, Brianna; Mwangi, Ann; Pastakia, Sonak; Wilson‐Barthes, Marta; Kimetto, Joan; Rono, Kimutai; Laktabai, Jeremiah; Galárraga, Omar (Wiley online, 2020)

Introduction Like many countries in sub‐Saharan Africa, Kenya is experiencing a rapid rise in the burden of non‐communicable diseases (NCDs): NCDs now contribute to over 50% of inpatient admissions and 40% of hospital ...
Predictors of Health Insurance Enrollment among HIV Positive Pregnant Women in Kenya: Potential for Adverse Selection and Implications for HIV Treatment and Prevention

Were, Lawrence P.O.; Hogan, Joseph W; Galárraga, Omar; Wamai, Richard (International Journal of Environvironment and Research Public Health., 2020-04)

Background: The global push to achieve the 90-90-90 targets designed to end the HIV epidemic has called for the removing of policy barriers to prevention and treatment, and ensuring financial sustainability of HIV programs. ...

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