44 students and 2 teachers visited KEMRI and learnt about science careers, health research and toured the microbiology and immunology labs.Scientist from KEMRI also visited Vipingo Secondary school for a career talk.
Using sickle cell trait to proxy malaria exposure, researchers found that an intervention that halves malaria incidence would also reduce iron deficiency by approximately 50% in African children.
Read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01238-4
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Happy to share our new publication @PLOSONE. We demonstrate missed opportunities for HIV testing at care seeking among adults with an acute infectious illness. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246444 @sanders_eduard @SANTHEafrica @IDeAL_KEMRI_WT @KEMRI_Wellcome
