The use of herbal medicine is becoming increasingly popular worldwide with statisticsrnshowing 65 to 80 of the worlds population using herbal medicines. In Kenya morernthan two thirds of the Kenyan po...

In spite of the limited chances for re-entry of high school dropouts into the education system in Kenya learnerscan by and large access educational resources through Adult Continuing Educat...

The Taita community is rich in indigenous knowledge regarding the use and conservation ofrndifferent plants and this knowledge has been transferred orally through the generations....

Malaria a preventable and curable disease causes over 1 million deaths mostly in children below the age of 5 years and 350500 million episodes of acute illness each year WHO 2006. This disease affects...

Before the introduction of modem medicine each African community had a way of treating various health conditions including eye diseases. Most of these practices have since changed. There are however s...

The commonly used diagnostic platforms such as cell culture serology and PCR have a limitation of requiring a priori knowledge of the identity of the target pathogen. Unfortunately febrile illnesses h...

Population-based cancer registries PBCR collect data on cancers reported in a prescribed format with specified guidelines. Population-based cancer registration represents the gold standard for the pro...

The African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae s.s. is known to feed selectively on certain plants for sugar sources. However the adaptive significance of this behaviour especially on how the extracts o...

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease whose current global spread has the characteristics of a pandemic type 2 is more common than type 1 worldwide. The increase in incidence of diabetes in developin...

Background: Recent research showing inefficiency of artemisinin-based chemotherapies in clearing intraerythrocytic parasite replications and suppressing Plasmodium gametocytogenesis heralds the need f...