Globally, approximately one-in-four people living with HIV (PLHIV) experiences interrup-tion in treatment (IIT), risking viral rebound, transmission, morbidity, and mortality.Murang’a County reported 82% viral suppression ...
ntroduction Female genital mutilation (FGM) remains
highly prevalent in parts of Kenya, including Narok County,
where marriageability expectations and social sanctions
continue to sustain the practice. Although ...
Objective:
Men underuse mental health services in part because of masculine norms. Few interventions focus on masculinity in therapeutic contexts, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This study analyzed ...
Jaguga, Florence; Ott, Mary A.; Kwobah, Edith Kamaru; Apondi, Edith; Giusto, Ali; Barasa, Julius; Kosgei, Gilliane; Rono, Wilter; Korir, Mercy; Puffer, Eve S.(Elsevier, 2023)
Background
Substance use is a major problem among youth in sub-Saharan Africa, yet interventions that address this problem are scarce within the region. Screening and brief intervention is a cost-effective, efficacious, ...
Barasa, Francis O.; Ngari, Faith Mukami; Masese, Eric R.(African Quarterly Social Science Review, 2025-11)
Khat (muguka) is one of the crops in Kenya, which elicits much debate because, on one hand, it is considered a drug of dependence
and is also blamed for many other social evils. On the other hand, it is a crop that has ...
Background
Problem drinking and co-occurring depression symptoms affect men at high rates and are associated with increased risk of family violence. In low- and middle-income countries, there is a large treatment gap for ...
An intercultural speaker navigates (and mediates) between different cultural and linguistic contexts, promoting understanding across boundaries. Language is integral to identity, with a strong relationship between language ...
This article studies the complexities of intercultural dynamics withinmultilingual classrooms, highlighting both the challenges and opportunities thatarise in such diverse educational settings. It examines how educators ...
Prophylactic treatment for Persons with
Hemophilia (PWH) still remains largely
inaccessible in Kenya. Donation of
Emicizumab for PWH A through the World
Federation of Hemophilia (WFH)
Humanitarian Aid Programme in ...
Background: The number of children surviving cancer in low and middle-income countries is expected to grow in the
coming years. Knowledge about late effects and follow-up preferences in Kenya is lacking.
Objectives: This ...
Dennis Amunga; Barasa, Francis O.(IJSSHRS, 2026-08)
Kenya's NTLD-P targets children as 10–15% of all notified tuberculosis (TB) cases, a target the country has struggled to meet.
This study examines the paediatric TB care cascade generated by the Kenya Innovation Challenge ...
Kosgey, Boniface Kipkemboi; Rono, Joseph K.; Sutter, Paul C.(IJSSRS, 2026-08)
Background : Kenya has made measurable progress in expanding modern contraceptive coverage and lowering fertility, yet
unmet need for family planning (FP) persists unevenly across counties, and rural areas continue to ...
This study investigates the cultural conceptualizations of learner empowermentacross different educational contexts. By conducting a comparative analysis, weexplore how the notion of empowerment is translated and operationalized ...
We develop a statistical-mechanical derivation of the mean gravitational potential energy per particle in an
infinitely extended isothermal atmosphere and establish the precise domain in which the result ⟨𝑈⟩ = 𝑘𝐵𝑇 ...
Environmentally sustainable economic growth portends numerous benefits to developing economies. However,
development of energy sources whereas maintaining environmental quality presents diverse challenges.
Nevertheless, ...
Despite the inherent multilingualism of the Kenyan educational landscape, French language
instruction often adheres to rigid monolingual immersion policies that may inhibit rather than
facilitate intercultural competence. ...
The focus of institutional economics is on the crucial part that institutions play in a nation’s economic performance. With a focus on transaction costs as a crucial element of economic activity, it offers a framework for ...
Ntambara, Boniface; Wambua, Paul; Simiyu, Sitati; Byiringiro, Jean Bosco(2026-02)
This paper presents an optimized inverse-time overcurrent relay (OCR) setting and coordination methodology for interconnected high-voltage and medium-voltage (HV/MV) transmission systems, validated on a real 110 kV/15 kV ...
Interest rate margin is one of the critical component in the lending decision process of
commercial banks. Commercial banks are independent business entities that set their own interest rate margin
based on the central ...
Njeru, James(The African Economic Research Consortium, 2010)
This study examined the factors influencing technical efficiency in wheat farming in
Kenya using a stochastic frontier production function in which technical inefficiency
effects were assumed to be functions of both ...