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Frost & Sullivan: Replacement of Old Equipment Boosts Kenyan Medical Imaging Industry

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The medical imaging market in Kenya is set for steady growth over the next five years, driven by an aging population demanding greater access to imaging and diagnostic procedures. However, price sensitivity and competition in the market remain high d...

Higher Outlays and Improved Regulatory Enforcement Create Opportunities in the Kenyan Healthcare Industry, Reveals Frost & Sullivan

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Increased public and private expenditure on healthcare, coupled with increasing levels of medical insurance coverage and continued foreign donor funding are creating significant opportunities for growth within the Kenyan healthcare industry. The pharm...

Malaria prevention reduces anemia and improves educational potential in Kenyan schoolchildren

Providing preventive treatment for malaria, given once per term, dramatically reduces rates of malaria infection and anaemia among schoolchildren, and significantly improves their cognitive ability, according to new research published today in the Lancet . Malaria is a major cause of morbidity...

Bio-latrine Cleans Up Kenyan Slum and the Environment

Doreen Kutilo never thought a toilet could save her so much time and money. But after a bio-latrine was built around the corner from her shack in Kibera, Africa's largest slum, she realized it could. With the help of an NGO, residents of Kibera installed the latrine that uses human waste t...

Improper Abortions- Kenyan Teenagers At Risk

According to hospital research, almost 50 percent of Kenya’s gynecological emergencies compromise// complications arising out of abortions done the wrong, often dangerous way. The research, which was carried out by Kakamega Provincial General Hospital in western Kenya, also observed that the s...

Double Knee replacement for a Kenyan in Chennai

Orthopaedic surgery in Chennai attracted a visitor from the Safari country of Kenya. A 68 year old grandfather with advanced osteoarthritis of both knees underwent bilateral// knee replacements here in a city hospital. DR.A.K.Venkatachalam, a renowned Orthopedic surgeon remarked that this was t...

Kenyan Women Six Times More Likely To Be HIV Positive Than Kenyan Men

A United Nations report released on Thursday said that Kenyan women who were almost always sexually abused were six times //more likely to become infected with HIV/AIDS than their male counterparts. But the Kenyan government says that the country's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has decreased from ...

WVU Doctor Works to Reduce Cancer Burden in Africa

...on-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The trial showed dramatic results -- a 6 percent mortality rate, compared with an expected 20 percent to 66 percent rate in the kenyan and Ugandan populations studied. The research team chose a low-dose chemotherapy regimen because it's vital that cancer therapies in sub-Saharan ...

U.S. Increases Funding for Kenya's Family Planning and Reproductive Health Activities

...is administration has followed this policy decision with a number of positive actions that will be felt in countries like Kenya. One out of every four kenyan women wants to space or limit their births and are not using family planning services. The additional funds will make these services available to thos...

Working Towards 'Counting Malaria Out' Through Scale-Up of PermaNet(R) Bed Nets, Vestergaard Frandsen Produces 175 Millionth Net; Introduces New Net To Combat Insecticide Resistance

...rything possible to slam the brakes on this deadly disease," he added. In addition to co-hosting the symposium on insecticide resistance with the kenyan Ministry of Health, Vestergaard Frandsen is involved in World Malaria Day activities around the world, including participating in a World Malaria Day ...

Kenyan Pharmaceutical Industry Can Expect Significant Growth Despite Global Conditions, Finds Frost & Sullivan

...ng significant opportunities for growth within the kenyan pharmaceutical industry. Although infectious disea...ges and the rise of sedentary lifestyles. The kenyan Ministry of Health is currently developing a compr... of counterfeit and substandard medications in the kenyan market," states Frost & Sullivan Research Anal...

Kenya Government Appoints Emergency Health Workers to Permanent Positions

...ll challenge them further into opening up additional support to help us address our country's human resources for health crisis." "We applaud the kenyan government for its decision to absorb the health workers," says IntraHealth president and CEO Pape Gaye. "This represents both a real commitment to ta...

Inexpensive depression screening tool works in resource poor countries

...hopelessness. We found a 13 percent incidence of major depression disorder and a 21 percent incidence of other depressive disorder in the 345 HIV/AIDS kenyan patients we studied," said Dr. Monahan. The PHQ-9 was developed in a 1999 study which was co-authored by one of the authors of the new study, Kurt ...

Thousands Sign Petition for Action on HIV/AIDS and Malaria

...ile helping move communities beyond the stigmas often associated with testing. The Swiss-based company Vestergaard Frandsen , in partnership with the kenyan government and civil society organizations, designed and sponsored the campaign and offered their early support to the HIV/malaria petition. &quo...

Frost & Sullivan Recognises Best-in-Class Innovators

...enetration Leadership Award Energem Biofuels: 2008 South African Biofuel Feedstock Competitive Strategy Leadership Award Philips: 2007 kenyan Medical Devices Market Leadership Award Wyeth South Africa: 2007 South African Paediatric Vaccines Growth Strategy Leadership Award Honeyw...

US$18.5 million grant makes male circumcision a top-tier HIV prevention strategy

...ion of circumcision services," says Robert Bailey, professor of epidemiology at the UIC School of Public Health. Bailey was the lead researcher of the kenyan study and is a lead researcher for the Male Circumcision Consortium. After reviewing the results of the three circumcision trials, experts convened...

Bed net usage increases, but 90 million African children still exposed to malaria

...today highlights what has been achieved since this historic declaration. kenyan and British scientists have published data from 40 African countries which ... pay for them. The research was conducted by Dr Abdisalan Noor, from the kenyan Medical Research Institute in Nairobi, who says: "Our analysis clearly show...

MTV's Staying Alive Marks Ten Years of Empowering Young People in Their Fight against HIV and AIDS

...r sex worker in the heart of Tanzania's red-light district Hyena Square, a group of people who are HIV+ making a difference by educating children in a kenyan school and a young American woman who lost her mother to AIDS. It ultimately provides an up-close and personal introduction to some remarkable and inc...

More Americans Aware of Digital Health Options; Use of Health IT Increases

... to toy buyers, Baby Boomers to GenY movie pirates, delivery room nurses to cardiologists, retired military officers to leaders at environmental NGOs, kenyan opinion leaders to American site selectors, port authority directors to auto enthusiasts, and Ohio voters to Washington opinion elites. ...

Health Experts Call on Global Leaders to Ensure Access to Life-Saving Pneumococcal Vaccines

... prevent 50 to 80 percent of these deaths. I'm proud that Kenya has made the decision to introduce this vaccine and to protect the lives and health of kenyan children." Pneumococcal vaccines have been available since 2000 to safely and effectively protect children and adults against pneumococcal infection...

Deadly disease eliminated in children under 5 years of age in Uganda

...eatening pneumonia cases and approximately 90% of Hib meningitis cases. A kenyan study in 2006 showed that the Hib vaccine cut the incidence of disease by 8...t the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b prevented approximately 3,370 kenyan children from being hospitalised in 2005. The authors say that prior studi...

Can world prize competitions foster more equitable drug research and development?

...ther than later. "There are no neglected diseases, just neglected people. We have been talking for over 10 years. It is now time to act," concluded kenyan health official Ahmed Ogwell. ...

JCI online early table of contents: Dec. 6, 2007

...new study, James Beeson and colleagues at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia, have now determined that malaria-exposed kenyan children and adults acquire antibodies that target P. falciparum proteins involved in different red blood cell-invasion mechanisms. Furthermore, the a...

AMPATH: Restoring lives not just immune systems

...ce to up to 30,000 people every month. For the JGIM study, Dr. Inui and colleagues conducted oral interviews with individuals involved in AMPATH -- kenyan physicians, clinical officers (similar to physicians assistants in the U.S.), nurses, nutritionists, pharmacists and others working within facilities ...

Fourteen Global Experts Comment on the Safety and Use of Genetically Modified Food Crops

...harshly and violently oppose this technology when we know that it can work for our farmers," explains the Honorable Dr. Ruth Oniang'o, a member of the kenyan Parliament and founder of the not-for-profit Rural Outreach Program. "Because the people who are opposed to these technologies are not the farmers the...

AHF and Kenya Medical Research Institute Partner to Save Lives at Free AIDS Treatment Clinic in Mombasa

... Facility, AHF's First in Kenya, is US AIDS Group's 39th Global AIDS Treatment Clinic in 14 Countries Worldwide. New kenyan Partnership Will Provide Life- saving Anti-retroviral Therapy in Town of Mtongwe, Mombasa, Kenya, where the National HIV/AIDS Prevalence is Ov...

Kenyan malaria success strengthens call for free insecticide-treated nets for all

...e Trust showing how successful a scheme run by the kenyan government has been at distributing the nets. O...efit most, but not those who cant." In 2006 the kenyan government initiated a programme to provide 3.4 mi...S Medicine. However, despite the success of the kenyan government's programme, Dr Abdisalan Mohamed Noor,...

"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

...rgy saving stoves and soap." Otherwise, refugees were being forced to sell their food to meet the need for these items, it warned. The kenyan government does not allow refugees to find employment outside the camps, to cultivate land or graze livestock, leaving the refugee population almost e...

Kenyan Capital Bans Smoking in Public

... Authorities in the kenyan capital began enforcing a ban on smoking in public...ings, markets, malls and theatres a year after the kenyan High Court blocked the measure. Offenders ...ya's tobacco growers. Smoking provides the kenyan government with around five billion shillings (74....

Kenya Says HIV/AIDS Rate Drops to 5.9 Percent

... The kenyan governmment said Tuesday the rate of HIV/AIDS infections had dropped 5.9 pe...etween the ages of 19 and 45, according NACC statistics. Last year, kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced that public hospitals would no longer charg...

Marathon for a Cause: To Fight Against Kidney Disease

...tic mission in the US Mohammed Saeed Al-Kindi. Previous editions of the event featured world-class runners and professional athletes including kenyan Paul Kibi Tergat who is regarded as one of the most outstanding long distance runners of the last decade and Hendrick Ramaala of South Africa, winner ...

DiCaprio Bites Back Over Eco 'Hypocrisy'

...h Hour attempts to tackle even bigger questions. DiCaprio brings in British physicist Stephen Hawking, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai to argue his case that Western society should "consume less and live more". Spliced between the interviews a...

Diagnostic Tests for Malaria Underused in Zambia

...e. Davidson H. Hamer, M.D., of the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues from the Zambian Ministry of Health, the kenyan Medical Research Institute and University of Oxford, assessed the association between use of microscopy and RDT and the prescription of antimalarials ...

Malaria and HIV Jointly Affects Pregnant Women and Their Infants

...ow HIV affects PAM, Kain and his team collected samples from women in the first pregnancy as well as from women in their subsequent ones living in the kenyan region where malaria is widespread. The researchers demonstrated that protection to PAM is arbitrated by a unique type of antibody that allows women t...

Kenya to Implement National Food and Nutrition Policy

...professor at the Friedman School, is assisting the kenyan government with translating the policy document in...asting impact. There is a convergence between many kenyan government groups and various international and do...es and listening to the specific challenges of the kenyan government, we can ascertain if policies that are ...

MDR-TB Spreading in Slums of Nairobi, Kenya, Health Workers Say

...cient follow-up among people taking TB treatment, Genevier said. The kenyan government does not provide MDR-TB treatment, which costs roughly $6,000 fo...ent first-line treatments and some of the available second-line drugs. Some kenyan medical experts said recently that Kenya and its surrounding region lack th...

Kenya, Surrounding Region Lack Capacity To Handle XDR-TB, Experts Say

...e treatments and some of the available second-line drugs, according to some kenyan medical experts. Treating a case of nondrug-resistant TB requires ro...0, compared with $18,000 to treat multi-drug resistant TB, according to the kenyan Ministry of Health. A major outbreak of MDR-TB or XDR-TB would strain limit...

RVF Outbreak Kills 148 in Kenya

...d at Kenyatta National Hospital. "There are new cases in Kitui central constituency, Kajiado and Kirinyaga," Mutua said. Health officials at the kenyan Dadaab refugee camp, a densely populated camp near the border with Somalia, said last week 29 cases, including five deaths, had been reported. T...

Experts Use Weather to Predict Disease

...e were already thinking, 'Rift,'" said Dr. Pierre Formenty, a WHO disease expert who was recently in Kenya to help contain the outbreak. Once the kenyan government was informed of the likelihood of an outbreak, they outlawed the sacrificing of cows, camels, goats and sheep during the Muslim Eid festiva...

Scientists On New Venture – An Online Global Map To Help Fight Malari

... Project’, which aims to help fight malaria by exactly highlighting the// areas where the disease is most likely to strike. Oxford University and the kenyan Medical Research Institute are supporting the project. It is reported that every year around 300 million people contract malaria and nearly 40 per...