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21.5 %Among 1003 female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya, 21.5% reported harmful amphetamine use in the past three months.

Kenyaharmful amphetamine usepublished 2022International journal of environmental research and public healthPubMeddocument of 3 observations

61.1 %Among patients with underlying conditions in Kenya's hospitalized COVID-19 cohort, hypertension was present in 61.1%.

KenyaCOVID-19 · hypertension artériellepublished 2025Global health actionPubMeddocument of 11 observations

4.9 %HIV prevalence rate in Kenya was 4.9% among the general population aged 15–64 years.

KenyaVIH/sidapublished 2020African Journal of Health SciencesOpenAlexdocument of 7 observations

44 %Average competency scores for MiP prevention varied across countries from 44% to 90%.

Kenyapaludismeobserved 2019 to 2020published 2024The American journal of tropical medicine and hygienePubMeddocument of 4 observations

68 %68% of women agreed that their male partner would want to receive text messages during PMTCT care.

KenyaVIH/sidapublished 2021AIDS carePubMeddocument of 7 observations

24.2 percentage_pointsThe intervention significantly increased the percentage of providers knowing the first line treatment for uncomplicated malaria by 24.2 percentage points.

Kenyapaludismepublished 2013Malaria journaleurope_pmcdocument of 3 observationsDOI 10.1186/1475-2875-12-81

37.5 %72 out of 192 DEC strains (37.5%) were resistant to cefoxitin.

KenyaDiarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC)published 2023F1000ResearchOpenAlexdocument of 5 observations

1 casesAmong pediatric deaths investigated from 2014 to 2015, 1 case of respiratory infection with severe hypokalemia associated with RSV was identified among 10 deaths associated with a nonpneumonia infectious process.

Kenyarespiratory infection with severe hypokalemia associated with RSVobserved 2014 to 2015published 2021The Pediatric infectious disease journalPubMeddocument of 12 observations

28.7 %Among 460 pre-school children in Kilifi on the Kenyan coast, 28.7% were infected with hookworm.

Kenyaankylostomiasepublished 1999Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygieneeurope_pmcdocument of 4 observations

2.6 %Plasmodium ovale accounted for 2.6% of infections among 1,134 malaria-positive samples.

Kenyapaludismepublished 2021The American journal of tropical medicine and hygienePubMeddocument of 7 observations

26.5 %Among the enrolled camels, 22 calves (26.5%) recorded reinfections with MERS-CoV, defined as a second positive swab following at least two consecutive negative tests.

KenyaMERS-CoVpublished 2022Viruseseurope_pmcdocument of 6 observationsDOI 10.3390/v14081743

50 %Public facility availability of cancer medicines was below 50% in Kenya.

Kenyacancer (non précisé)PubMeddocument of 11 observations

3.3 %The annual prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) or Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) among 2665 participants tested was 3.3% at year 1.

KenyaChlamydia trachomatisobserved year 1published 2026International journal of STD & AIDSPubMeddocument of 4 observations

1,813 individualsAmong children and adolescents living with HIV in central Kenya, 1,813 (37.7%) were enrolled at WHO stage II disease.

KenyaVIH/sidapublished 2022AIDS research and human retrovirusesPubMeddocument of 18 observations

1.98 odds_ratioChildren with fever on the day of the survey had a 1.98 times greater chance of being infected with Plasmodium falciparum compared to children without a history of fever on the day of the survey after adjusting for age and location.

Kenyapaludismeobserved 2007–2009published 2010Malaria journaleurope_pmcdocument of 7 observationsDOI 10.1186/1475-2875-9-99

89 %Point-of-care viral load testing uptake was high (>89%) throughout pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum periods.

KenyaVIH/sidapublished 2023Journal of the International AIDS SocietyPubMeddocument of 8 observations

11.9 %Lifetime abortion prevalence among female sex workers in Kenya was 11.9%.

Kenyainduced abortionpublished 2022BMJ openeurope_pmcdocument of 4 observations

52 %More than half (52%) of mortality among HIV-positive tuberculosis patients was ascribed to advanced HIV disease.

Kenyatuberculose · VIH/sidapublished 2023African health sciencesPubMeddocument of 6 observations

6 %Candida albicans accounted for 6% of microorganisms causing catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the Kenyatta National Hospital critical care unit.

Kenyacatheter-associated urinary tract infectionobserved 2019–2020published 2020African Journal of Health SciencesOpenAlexdocument of 17 observations

96.5 %The proportions of blood-fed mosquitoes caught indoors were 96.5% in hamlets without bednets.

Kenyapaludismepublished 1989Medical and veterinary entomologyeurope_pmcdocument of 7 observations

1 per_317Among 317 women, invasive cervical cancer controls included HPV16 and 66 coinfection in 1/317 (0.3%).

Kenyacancer du col de l'utéruspublished 2021BioMed research internationalPubMeddocument of 9 observations

Breast cancer is the leading cancer in terms of incidence in Kenya.

Kenyacancer du seinpublished 2022Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.)PubMeddocument of 17 observations

96.6 %For cellular viral DNA, useful PR and RT sequences were obtained for 96.6% and 93.1% of the whole-blood-cell samples and for 93.1% and 93.1% of the DBS samples, respectively.

KenyaVIH/sidapublished 2007Journal of clinical microbiologyeurope_pmcdocument of 4 observations

131 virusesA total of 131 RSV group A viruses were collected during 6-month household-based RSV infection surveillance in Coastal Kenya, 2010 within an area of 12 km².

Kenyarespiratory syncytial virus (RSV)observed 2010published 2017Virus evolutioneurope_pmcdocument of 3 observationsDOI 10.1093/ve/vex006

61 %Among 647 Kenyan women planning to conceive, 61% had mild gingivitis.

Kenyagingivitispublished 2022BMC oral healtheurope_pmcdocument of 6 observationsDOI 10.1186/s12903-022-02243-w