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      One Month or Real Life in a Single Clinic near the Slum Area in Mukuru Urban setting in the Time after COVID-19 Epidemic in Kenya

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          The Muruku Clinic of Mary Immaculate is the oldest project of Slovak Doctors in Africa founded in 1999 by Sr. Mary Killeen and Prof. L. Soltes, working on an active survey of HIV especially in pregnant women, as well as OPD for basic diseases for two neighboring slums - Mukuru and St. Catherine. The aim of this research note is to describe the change of the spectrum of diseases just after Covid-19 pandemics in Kenya after first wave in 2020 just 20 years after founding of the clinic. When before 2000, malaria HIV, TB and STDs were the commonest diseases followed by multiple parasitic related anemia, after active screening and education against HIV the situation changed..

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          Journal
          Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention
          cswhi
          Journal of Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention
          2222386X
          20769741
          April 4 2021
          March 31 2021
          April 4 2021
          March 31 2021
          : 12
          : 1
          : 40-43
          Article
          10.22359/cswhi_12_1_09
          dae72ec4-1d0a-45ba-9684-3b86322bbc33
          © 2021

          This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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          Psychology,Social & Behavioral Sciences
          Psychology, Social & Behavioral Sciences

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