The Kenya Ophthalmic Programme (KOP) is a Ministry of Health (MOH) programme receiving administrative support from the Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB). It started as a small project in 1956 but has grown into a major National Programme rendering comprehensive eye care (CEC) through a network of about 70 Government and NGO static and outreach service delivery points scattered all over the coun...

1 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2 Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 3 Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4 Wildlife Conservation Society, Kinshasa, DR Congo 5 c/o ICCN-PNKB, Cyangugu, Rwanda 6 Zoology Department, Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany 7 National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Ke...

Laboratoire Central Vétérinaire, Km 8, Route de Koulikoro, B. P. 2295, Bamako, Mali. African Union, Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources, Kenindia Business Park, Museum Hill, Westlands Rd, P. O. Box 30786-00100 Nairobi, Kenya. PACE-Mali, B. P. E1459, Bamako, Mali. FAO-ECTAD (Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases) Unit, Regional Animal Health Center (RAHC), Africa Union Building...

a Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, P.O. Box 230, 80108 Kilifi, Kenya b Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, United Kingdom c Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, OX3 9DU Oxford, ...

Department of Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service Trust, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School, Oxford, United Kingdom; Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre of Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi District Hospital, Kilifi, Kenya; Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University ...

The principal sources of information on the rapid fall in fertility in Kenya since 1980 are, first, the birth histories compiled in the Kenya Fertility Survey (KFS) of 1977-78 and the three Demographic and Health Surveys (KDHS) of 1989, 1993 and 1998, and, second, the data on children ever born and on births in the last twelve months obtained in the population censuses of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1...

Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309; Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118; Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794; Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona S...

This study uses data from the 1989, 1993, and 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys to examine trends and determinants of contraceptive method choice in Kenya. The analysis, based on two-level multinomial regression models, shows that, over time, the use of modern contraceptive methods, especially long-term methods, is higher in urban than in rural areas, whereas the pattern is reversed for...

In 1982-1984, an epidemiologic survey of the prevalence of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) in circulating blood (HBs-antigenemia) and of hepatitis delta virus infection was performed in Kenya. The distributions of hepatitis B virus and the delta virus were shown to be very variable. In southern Kenya, only two of 202 sera from HBsAg-positive individuals with no known liver disease and...