Changing mother's hygiene and sanitation practices in resource constrained communities: case study of Turkana District, Kenya.

Lack of adequate sanitation, hygiene and safe portable water are serious global health problems that contribute to deaths of many children under the age of 5 years annually, mainly due to diarrhoeal diseases. This study was set out to determine the extent to which sanitation and hygiene promotion influenced mothers' and children's health in Turkana District; one of the arid Northern frontier Districts of Kenya. A repeat cross-sectional study design with multi-stage sampling method was used.

Effects of hygiene and sanitation interventions on reducing diarrhoea prevalence among children in resource constrained communities: case study of Turkana District, Kenya.

Worldwide, lack of access to safe drinking water together with inadequate sanitation and hygiene is an overwhelming contributor to approximately 4 billion cases of illness annually. This study was set out to understand the effects of hygiene and sanitation interventions on targeted health outcomes including diarrhoeal prevalence in children's of Turkana District, Kenya. The interventions undertaken included capacity building and empowerment approach to trigger communities to demand hygiene and sanitation facilities.

Prevalence of parasites of the local scavenging chickens in a selected semi-arid zone of Eastern Kenya.

A study to identify and estimate the prevalence of parasites of local chickens in a semi arid area of Kenya was conducted between March 2005 and August 2006. Three hundred and sixty (360) local chickens purchased from Yathui division of Machakos were examined. Of those, 93.