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  1. From vaccine to visa apartheid, how anti-Blackness persists in global health
  2. How we classify countries and people—and why it matters
  3. A comparison of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by household socioeconomic status across seven INDEPTH network health and demographic surveillance systems in sub-Saharan Africa
  4. Gender responsive multidisciplinary doctoral training program: the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) experience
  5. Magnitude and predictors of normal-weight central obesity– the AWI-Gen study findings
  6. Regional and sex-specific variation in BMI distribution in four sub-Saharan African countries: The H3Africa AWI-Gen study
  7. Genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in Africa: methods used for Phase 1 of the AWI-Gen population cross-sectional study
  8. Sociodemographic and behavioural factors associated with body mass index among men and women in Nairobi slums: AWI-Gen Project
  9. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
  10. From policy to practice: exploring the implementation of antiretroviral therapy access and retention policies between 2013 and 2016 in six sub-Saharan African countries
  11. Catherine Kyobutungi: leading African health research capacity
  12. Ethnicity and breast cancer characteristics in Kenya
  13. The role of a decision-support smartphone application in enhancing community health volunteers’ effectiveness to improve maternal and newborn outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya: quasi-experimental research protocol
  14. Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Kenyan Adolescents With the Sickle Cell Trait
  15. Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Kenyan Adolescents With α + Thalassemia
  16. Stark Regional and Sex Differences in the Prevalence and Awareness of Hypertension
  17. Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants
  18. Health and health-related indicators in slum, rural, and urban communities: a comparative analysis
  19. Measurement of overweight and obesity an urban slum setting in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparison of four anthropometric indices
  20. The connection between non-communicable disease risk factors and risk perception among urban slum dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya
  21. Challenges and Opportunities for promoting Maternal, New born, and Child Health in urban informal settlements: perspectives of Community Health Volunteers in Nairobi, Kenya
  22. Use of Private and Public Health Facilities for essential Maternal and Child Health Services in Nairobi City informal settlements: Perspectives of Women and Community Health Volunteers
  23. Analysis of Patterns of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in an Urban Slum Setting in Nairobi, Kenya
  24. A century of trends in adult human height
  25. Measuring exposure levels of inhalable airborne particles (PM 2.5 ) in two socially deprived areas of Nairobi, Kenya
  26. Analysis of Non-communicable disease prevention policies in five Sub-Saharan African countries: Study protocol
  27. Outcomes and costs of implementing a community-based intervention for hypertension in an urban slum in Kenya
  28. Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants
  29. Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the slums of Nairobi: the SCALE-UP study
  30. Interlinkage among cardio-metabolic disease markers in an urban poor setting in Nairobi, Kenya
  31. Data Resource Profile: Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA Network)
  32. Poverty and Uneven Food Security in Urban Slums
  33. Potential effectiveness of Community Health Strategy to promote exclusive breastfeeding in urban poor settings in Nairobi, Kenya: a quasi-experimental study
  34. Challenges of health programmes in slums
  35. The Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm): are remote areas benefiting from the intervention?
  36. Co-occurrence of behavioral risk factors of common non-communicable diseases among urban slum dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya
  37. Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: a pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331 288 participants
  38. Profile of people with hypertension in Nairobi’s slums: a descriptive study
  39. Evidence of a Double Burden of Malnutrition in Urban Poor Settings in Nairobi, Kenya
  40. Results of a hypertension and diabetes treatment program in the slums of Nairobi: a retrospective cohort study
  41. Strengthening health system governance using health facility service charters: a mixed methods assessment of community experiences and perceptions in a district in Kenya
  42. Trends in Causes of Adult Deaths among the Urban Poor: Evidence from Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System, 2003–2012
  43. Temperature Variation and Heat Wave and Cold Spell Impacts on Years of Life Lost Among the Urban Poor Population of Nairobi, Kenya
  44. Cardiovascular prevention model from Kenyan slums to migrants in the Netherlands
  45. Factors affecting actualisation of the WHO breastfeeding recommendations in urban poor settings in K enya
  46. HIV/AIDS-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites
  47. Trends in non-communicable disease mortality among adult residents in Nairobi's slums, 2003–2011: applying InterVA-4 to verbal autopsy data
  48. Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites
  49. Cause-specific mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites
  50. Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites
  51. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Nairobi slums: a cost-effectiveness study
  52. The effect of enhanced public–private partnerships on Maternal, Newborn and child Health Services and outcomes in Nairobi–Kenya: the PAMANECH quasi-experimental research protocol
  53. Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in Urban Slums: Experiences from Nairobi, Kenya
  54. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa
  55. Correlates for cardiovascular diseases among diabetic/hypertensive patients attending outreach clinics in two Nairobi slums, Kenya
  56. Overweight, Obesity, and Perception of Body Image Among Slum Residents in Nairobi, Kenya, 2008–2009
  57. Reproductive Health Voucher Program and Facility Based Delivery in Informal Settlements in Nairobi: A Longitudinal Analysis
  58. InterVA versus Spectrum: how comparable are they in estimating AIDS mortality patterns in Nairobi's informal settlements?
  59. Introducing a model of cardiovascular prevention in Nairobi's slums by integrating a public health and private-sector approach: the SCALE-UP study
  60. Community Perceptions of Air Pollution and Related Health Risks in Nairobi Slums
  61. The magnitude of diabetes and its association with obesity in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya: results from a cross‐sectional survey
  62. HIV mortality in urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya 2003–2010: a period effect analysis
  63. Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among slum dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya
  64. SCALE UP: Sustainable model for Cardiovascular health by Adjusting Lifestyle and treatment with Economic perspective in settings of Urban Poverty - Development, implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive intervention package for primary preventio...
  65. Breast cancerdiagnosis in aresource poorenvironment through a collaborativemultidisciplinaryapproach: the Kenyan experience
  66. Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses
  67. Status report on hypertension in Africa - Consultative review for the 6th Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health on NCD’ss
  68. A community-based intervention for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the slums of Nairobi: the SCALE UP study protocol for a prospective quasi-experimental community-based trial
  69. Effectiveness of personalised, home-based nutritional counselling on infant feeding practices, morbidity and nutritional outcomes among infants in Nairobi slums: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
  70. Correlates of HIV-status awareness among adults in Nairobi slum areas
  71. Data Resource Profile: The World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)
  72. Malaria mortality estimates: need for agreeable approach
  73. Time-series analysis of weather and mortality patterns in Nairobi's informal settlements
  74. Optimizing breast cancer diagnosis in Kenya: Importance of standardization of technical methodologies for comparative breast cancer data.
  75. Civil society organizations: Capacity to address the needs of the urban poor in Nairobi
  76. Increase in facility-based deliveries associated with a maternal health voucher programme in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
  77. Determinants for participation in a public health insurance program among residents of urban slums in Nairobi, Kenya: results from a cross-sectional survey
  78. Ethnicity and Delay in Measles Vaccination in a Nairobi Slum
  79. P2-149 Behavioural risk factors for CVD among adult slum dwellers in Nairobi
  80. P2-232 Cardiovascular disease conditions: prevalence, awareness, treatment and control among the urban poor in Nairobi
  81. Fatal Injuries in the Slums of Nairobi and their Risk Factors: Results from a Matched Case-Control Study
  82. Patterns and determinants of breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices in urban informal settlements, Nairobi Kenya
  83. Does Socioeconomic Inequality in Health Persist among Older People Living in Resource-Poor Urban Slums?
  84. Health inequalities among older men and women in Africa and Asia: evidence from eight Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites in the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE Study
  85. Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration
  86. The health and well-being of older people in Nairobi's slums
  87. Verbal autopsy interpretation: a comparative analysis of the InterVA model versus physician review in determining causes of death in the Nairobi DSS
  88. Local scale prediction of Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission in an endemic region using temperature and rainfall
  89. Seasonal Pattern of Pneumonia Mortality among Under-Five Children in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements
  90. HIV/AIDS and the health of older people in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya: results from a cross sectional survey
  91. Maternal mortality in the informal settlements of Nairobi city: what do we know?
  92. Stomach cancer mortality in two large cohorts of migrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel and Germany: are there implications for prevention?
  93. Effects of residential changes and time patterns on external-cause mortality in migrants: Results of a German cohort study
  94. The burden of disease profile of residents of Nairobi's slums: Results from a Demographic Surveillance System
  95. Can Weekly Home Visits and Treatment by Non-Medical Personnel Reduce Malaria-Related Mortality Among Children Under Age 5 Years?
  96. Micro-epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum malaria: Is there any difference in transmission risk between neighbouring villages?
  97. Mortality from cancer among ethnic German immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, in Germany
  98. Mortality from external causes among ethnic German immigrants from former Soviet Union countries, in Germany
  99. All-cause and Cardiovascular mortality among ethnic German immigrants from the Former Soviet Union: a cohort study
  100. RE: “LUNG CANCER AND INDOOR POLLUTION FROM HEATING AND COOKING WITH SOLID FUELS: THE IARC INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTRE CASE-CONTROL STUDY IN EASTERN/CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM”
  101. Absolute Temperature, Temperature Changes and Stroke Risk: A Case-Crossover Study
  102. Large-scale, Population-based Epidemiological Studies with Record Linkage can be done in Germany
  103. Self-help: What future role in health care for low and middle-income countries?
  104. S08.3: Mortality among migrants in Germany– a retrospective cohort study
  105. S40.3: New methods for conducting large-scale retrospective cohort studies among migrants in Germany
  106. The Outbreak and Control of Ebola Viral Haemorrhagic Fever in a Ugandan Medical School