Stella Njuguna

Biographic Data

ID5875370
NAMEStella Njuguna
GIVEN NAMESStella
FAMILY NAMENjuguna
SIGNATURENJUGUNA S
AFFILIATIONSKenya Medical Research Institute
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Underlying conditions associated with adverse Covid-19 treatment outcomes in selected Kenyan hospitals, October 2020 to December 2021

    Open AccessDickens Onyango, Wanjiru Waruiru et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    Background Data are limited on the impact of chronic underlying conditions on COVID-19 treatment outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.Objectives Determine the effect of underlying conditions on COVID-19 severity and treatment outcomes in Kenya.Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using routine medical records from Kenya’s three large COVID-19 treatment centers. We examined two outcomes: mortality and clinical severity. Patients with lower …

  • Validating a measure of anticipated sex work-related stigma among male and female sex workers in Kenya

    Open AccessEmmanuel A Oga, Melissa A Stockton et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2022

    Sex workers face different types of sex work-related stigma, which may include anticipated, perceived, experienced, or internalized stigma. Sex work stigma can discourage health care seeking and hamper STI and HIV prevention and treatment efforts. There is a paucity of validated sex work-related stigma measures, and this limits the ability to study the stigma associated with sex work. A cross-sectional survey was conducted that measured anticipat…

  • Trajectories of Oral PrEP Adherence Among Young Kenyan Women

    Open AccessNicholas Musinguzi, Maria Pyra et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2022

  • Validation of a Brief Internalized Sex-work Stigma Scale among Female Sex Workers in Kenya

    Melissa A Stockton, John Kraemer et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research2021Cited by: 2References: 3

    Female sex workers (FSW) often face severe stigma and discrimination and are extremely vulnerable to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. In the fields of HIV and mental health, internalized stigma is associated with poor health care engagement. Due to the lack of valid, standardized measures for internalized sex work-related stigma, its dimensions and role are not well-understood. This study aimed to validate the six-item Internalized …

  • Experienced sex-work stigma in male and female sex workers in Kenya

    Open AccessEmmanuel A Oga, John D Kraemer et al.ARTICLEStigma and Health2019

    Sex work stigma can negatively impact health care utilization by sex workers, including utilization of services for HIV prevention and treatment. It is important to measure and address sex work stigma to improve access and retention in HIV and other health services, yet a gap remains in the literature on sex work stigma. This may in part be due to lack of validated sex work stigma measurement instruments. We developed a set of 26 items on experie…

  • The relationship between health worker stigma and uptake of HIV counseling and testing and utilization of non-HIV health services

    Laura Nyblade, Aditi Reddy et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2017

    The barrier HIV-stigma presents to the HIV treatment cascade is increasingly documented; however less is known about female and male sex worker engagement in and the influence of sex-work stigma on the HIV care continuum. While stigma occurs in all spheres of life, stigma within health services may be particularly detrimental to health seeking behaviors. Therefore, we present levels of sex-work stigma from healthcare workers (HCW) among male and …