Tuberculosis transmission in Kenya: results of the third National Tuberculin Survey.

Setting: Kenya, a country with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of TB infection, bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) coverage and the annual risk of tuberculosis infection (ARTI), and to compare estimates with previous findings.

Methods: A sample of primary school children aged 6-14 years from the same study districts sampled in previous surveys were tuberculin skin tested using the Mantoux method from September 2004 to July 2007.

Planning for PPM-DOTS implementation in urban slums in Kenya: knowledge, attitude and practices of private health care providers in Kibera slum, Nairobi.

Setting: Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

Objective: To determine the tuberculosis (TB) knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of private health care providers (PHCPs) to identify their training needs and willingness to participate in a National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Programme (NLTP) guided TB control effort in the slum.

Design And Methodology: A cross-sectional survey.

Prevalence and risk factors of smoking among secondary school students in Nairobi.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of smoking and investigate factors that may influence smoking behaviour in secondary school students in Nairobi.

Design: Cross-sectional survey in which a self-administered questionnaire was issued to the students.

Setting: Sampled public and private secondary schools in Nairobi.

Tuberculosis re-treatment outcomes within the public service in Nairobi, Kenya.

Objectives: This study was undertaken to describe treatment outcomes in patients started on a re-treatment drug regimen, assess the quality of follow up procedures and the adequacy of the currently advocated re-treatment drug regimen in Nairobi, Kenya.

Design: A retrospective study.

Setting: Mbagathi District Hospital (MDH), Nairobi, a public hospital that serves as the Tuberculosis (Tb) referral centre for Nairobi.

Tobacco consumption among primary school teachers in Nairobi.

Objective: To determine the extent, pattern and the attendant risk factors of cigarette smoking and tobacco consumption among primary school teachers in Nairobi.

Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Setting: The study was carried out among randomly selected Nairobi City Council primary schools in 1996.