Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya.

We deliver one month's average profit to a randomly selected group of female microenterprise owners in Dandora, Kenya, arriving just in advance of an exponential growth in COVID-19 cases. Relative to a control group, firms recoup about one third of their initial decline in profit, and food expenditures increase. Control profit responds to economic conditions and government announcements during our study period, and treatment effects are largest when control profit is at its lowest.

COVID-19 Effect on Access to Maternal Health Services in Kenya.

Maternal mortality continues to be one of the biggest challenges of the health system in Kenya. Informal settlements in Kenya have been known to have higher rates of maternal mortality and also receive maternity services of varied quality. Data assessing progress on key maternal health indicators within informal settlements are also often scarce.

Examining person-centered maternity care in a peri-urban setting in Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya.

Introduction: Peri-urban settings have high maternal mortality and the quality of care received in different types of health facilities is varied. Yet few studies have explored the construct of person-centered maternity care (PCMC) within peri-urban settings. Understanding women's experience of maternity care in peri-urban settings will allow health facility managers and policy makers to improve services in these settings.

Understanding Women's Choices: How Women's Perceptions of Quality of Care Influences Place of Delivery in a Rural Sub-County in Kenya. A Qualitative Study.

Background: Maternal mortality is still unacceptably high in Kenya. The Kenyan Government introduced a free maternity service to overcome financial barriers to access. This policy led to a substantial increase in women's delivery options.

Exploring women's childbirth experiences and perceptions of delivery care in peri-urban settings in Nairobi, Kenya.

Background: Kenya continues to have a high maternal mortality rate that is showing slow progress in improving. Peri-urban settings in Kenya have been reported to exhibit higher rates of maternal death during labor and childbirth as compared to the general Kenyan population. Although research indicates that women in Kenya have increased access to facility-based birth in recent years, a small percentage still give birth outside of the health facility due to access challenges and poor maternal health service quality.

Eliciting women's preferences for place of child birth at a peri-urban setting in Nairobi, Kenya: A discrete choice experiment.

Objective: Maternal and newborn mortality rates are high in peri-urban areas in cities in Kenya, yet little is known about what drives women's decisions on where to deliver. This study aimed at understanding women's preferences on place of childbirth and how sociodemographic factors shape these preferences.

Methods: This study used a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) to quantify the relative importance of attributes on women's choice of place of childbirth within a peri-urban setting in Nairobi, Kenya.

Understanding what women want: eliciting preference for delivery health facility in a rural subcounty in Kenya, a discrete choice experiment.

Objective: To identify what women want in a delivery health facility and how they rank the attributes that influence the choice of a place of delivery.

Design: A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted to elicit rural women's preferences for choice of delivery health facility. Data were analysed using a conditional logit model to evaluate the relative importance of the selected attributes.

'We just look at the well-being of the baby and not the money required': a qualitative study exploring experiences of quality of maternity care among women in Nairobi's informal settlements in Kenya.

Objective: To examine how women living in an informal settlement in Nairobi perceive the quality of maternity care and how it influences their choice of a delivery health facility.

Design: Qualitative study.

Settings: Dandora, an informal settlement, Nairobi City in Kenya.

Exploring mistreatment of women during childbirth in a peri-urban setting in Kenya: experiences and perceptions of women and healthcare providers.

Background: In Kenya, indirectly caused maternal deaths form a significant portion of all maternal deaths within the health system. Many of these deaths are avoidable and occur during delivery and labor. Poor quality health service has been a recurring concern among women in Kenya, with women reporting interactions with healthcare workers that are often demeaning and abusive.