- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
International Livestock Research Institute
2024
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
2022
<ns4:p><ns4:bold>Background: </ns4:bold> Unintended pregnancy predisposes women of child-bearing age to risk factors like maternal deaths, poor child outcomes, mental illness because stress, risky abortion, and vertical transmission HIV. According the Kenya Demographic Health Survey in 2014, 34% pregnancies were unintended year 2020 it rose 41.9% (Monitoring, 2020). Determinants among attending antenatal clinics is diverse poorly understood due no representative information.</ns4:p><ns4:p>...
Background: Immune correlates of protection are ideal tools to predict treatment or vaccine efficacy. However, the accuracy immune correlate and capability robustly outcome a candidate determined by performance in vitro immunoassay used. Several Theileria parva sporozoite seroneutralization assays have previously been used assess antibody functional activities; however, common limitation has need for fresh material, target cells sporozoites, operator-to-operator bias. An improved assay...