MIYCN – Urban Project

WHO – Technical Assistance for Accountability for Health Framework in Africa

Through the World Health Organization (WHO), APHRC is providing technical assistance to selected countries to implement and assess progress in achieving recommendations for improving Women’s and Children’s health.

Voices for Action V4A

Voices for Action is a community engagement on vulnerability and solutions to food and nutrition insecurity among women and children in the Maasai Community, Kajiado, Kenya.

Understanding non-communicable diseases (NCD) and the role of infection in Africa: building a partnership to generate big data – ANDLA project

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are overtaking infectious disease as the leading cause of adult mortality in Africa.

Triple Negative Breast Cancer in Kenya (TNBC)

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of breast carcinoma with a poor prognosis.

Technical Working Group on Multi-Sectoral Action for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Policy in sub-Saharan Africa

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors are increasing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Surveillance and Epidemiologic Evaluation of COVID-19 in Kenya (SEECK)

The burden of COVID-19 at population level is not known and prevention interventions are not fully supported by evidence. This project seeks to answer the question of: what proportion of the general population has been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 before? The study is being conducted in the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) area (Korogocho and Viwandani informal settlements) on the outskirts of Nairobi City. Similar studies are being implemented in Kisumu and Kilifi by other research teams within the wider consortium.

PATIENT-LED SUPPORT GROUPS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HYPERTENSION AND DIABETES IN KOROGOCHO AND VIWANDANDI INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, NAIROBI, KENYA: MIXED METHODS STUDY OF AN INNOVATIVE MODEL (MRC PaLs)

Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Project (PAMANECH)

MIYCN – Urban Project

This is a study conducted in two slums in Nairobi; Korogocho and Viwandani. It involves personalized, home-based counselling of pregnant women and mothers of infants on maternal nutrition and optimal infant and young child feeding practices by Community Health Workers (CHWs).

Indoor and outdoor air pollution and their health impacts, in poor urban settings in nairobi

Air pollution (both outdoor and indoor) is a critical public health challenge especially in the developing world where legislation on emissions control is either weak or non-existent.

Indicator Development for Surveillance of Urban Emergencies (IDSUE)

INDEPTH Vaccination Project (IVP) – Infectious and NCD

Improving Healthcare Delivery in Informal Settlements

Rapid urbanization in major cities in Africa, has contributed to a surge in informal settlements, also commonly referred to as slums.

Food Choices Project: Dietary transitions in African Cities

Driven in part by the increasing migration of individuals to cities in many African countries, a change in dietary habits has been observed, with increasing consumption of unhealthy foods that are high in calories and low in nutrients.

Bringing African Voices Together

AWI-Gen/H3A – Genomic and Environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic disease in Africans

The AWI-Gen project aims to understand the interplay between genetic, epigenetic and environmental risk factors for obesity and related cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) in sub-Saharan Africa.

Assessing the Gaps in Healthcare and Determining the Feasibility for the Setup of a Social Enterprise – Viwandani Lown Community Health Center, Kenya

The Assessing the Gaps in Healthcare and Determining the Feasibility for the Setup of a Social Enterprise