Using gender analysis to build voluntary counselling and testing responses in KenyaM Taegtmeyer
Liverpool VCT Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 100:305-11. 2006
..We conclude that there is an ongoing need to mainstream gender in monitoring and evaluation strategies to ensure services meet the needs and priorities of all groups...
A peer-led HIV counselling and testing programme for the deaf in KenyaM Taegtmeyer
Liverpool VCT, Care and Treatment, Nairobi, Kenya
Disabil Rehabil 31:508-14. 2009
..To describe and evaluate the establishment of the first VCT services for the Deaf in Africa...
Ciprofloxacin treatment of bacterial peritonitis associated with chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis caused by Neisseria cinereaM Taegtmeyer
Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool L7 8XP, United Kingdom
J Clin Microbiol 44:3040-1. 2006
..We present a case of peritonitis due to an unusual pathogen, Neisseria cinerea, unresponsive to the standard intraperitoneal (i.p.) vancomycin and gentamicin, which responded rapidly to oral ciprofloxacin...
- Engendering health sector responses to sexual violence and HIV in Kenya: results of a qualitative study
N Kilonzo
Liverpool VCT, Treatment and Care, Nairobi, Kenya
AIDS Care 20:188-90. 2008
..Further research needs to determine the feasibility of on-going risk reduction measures in the context of PEP delivery...
- Delivering post-rape care services: Kenya's experience in developing integrated services
N Kilonzo
Liverpool VCT, Care and Treatment, Nairobi, Kenya
Bull World Health Organ 87:555-9. 2009
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- Working with risk: occupational safety issues among healthcare workers in Kenya
M Taegtmeyer
Liverpool VCT, Care and Treatment, Nairobi, Kenya
AIDS Care 20:304-10. 2008
..Post-exposure prophylaxis can be made readily available in a Kenyan district. However, where HIV testing remains stigmatised uptake will be limited - particularly in the initial phases of a programme...
- The clinical impact of nucleic acid amplification tests on the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis in a British hospital
M Taegtmeyer
Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool L7 8XP, UK
Thorax 63:317-21. 2008
..Indications for their use in clinical samples are now included in British tuberculosis guidelines...
- Piloting post-exposure prophylaxis in Kenya raises specific concerns for the management of childhood rape
C G Speight
Liverpool VCT and Care, P.O. Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 100:14-8. 2006
..The high rates of childhood rape and demand for post-rape services were an enormous challenge for service providers and policy-makers...
- HIV voluntary counselling and testing for African communities in London: learning from experiences in Kenya
A Prost
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Sex Transm Infect 83:547-51. 2007
..To explore the feasibility and acceptability of translating a successful voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) service model from Kenya to African communities in London...
- Public health approach to HIV treatment in resource-poor settings
S Theobald
Lancet 368:1064. 2006
- Susceptibility of healthcare workers in Kenya to hepatitis B: new strategies for facilitating vaccination uptake
R M Suckling
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
J Hosp Infect 64:271-7. 2006
..High rates of vaccination can be achieved using childhood immunization systems for the distribution of vaccine to HCWs...
