Communication strategies to promote vaccination behaviours in sub-Saharan Africa.

Effective public health communication is needed to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake in sub-Saharan Africa. We present six best practices: (1) use of collective action/altruism, (2) use of relatable language, (3) tailoring messages, (4) use of gain-framed messages, (5) use of trusted messengers and (6) use of research to test messages.

Prevalence and intensity of Schistosomiasis mansoni in irrigation and non-irrigation areas of central Kenya.

Objective: To compare the extent of intestinal schistosomiasis among school children attending school in an irrigation and non-irrigation area of Central Kenya.

Design: A cross sectional study.

Setting: Three separate parasitological surveys involving four primary schools in Mwea irrigation scheme, Kirinyaga District and two from a non-irrigation area in Machakos District.

Helminth and protozoan gastrointestinal tract parasites in captive and wild-trapped African non-human primates.

The objective of this study was to investigate the gastro-intestinal (GIT) parasites commonly occurring in captive and wild-trapped (WT) non-human primates (baboons, vervets and Sykes) in Kenya and compare their prevalence. Three hundred and fifteen faecal samples were subjected to a battery of diagnostic tests, namely, direct smear, modified formal ether sedimentation, Kato thick smear, Harada-Mori techniques for parasite detection and culture to facilitate nematode larvae identification. Of these, 203 (64.

Tolerance of Kenyan Schistosoma mansoni to oxamniquine.

Although 30 mg/kg oxamniquine produced high levels (85.5 to 99.5%) of egg reduction in Kenyan children infected with Schistosoma mansoni after a single oral treatment, cure rates from children at Mwea in Kirinyaga district were lower than those from Machakos (58% v.