Washington Onyango-Ouma
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 125979 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Washington Onyango-Ouma |
| PRENOMES | Washington |
| SOBRENOME | Onyango-Ouma |
| ASSINATURA | ONYANGO-OUMA W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nairobi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2723-7900 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Disclosure of HIV status to children on antiretroviral therapy
“Looking for life”
In this article we explore how artisanal gold miners in Western Kenya “look for life” in a landscape where precarity is not exceptional but part of everyday life. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with artisanal gold miners and participant observation, we examine how miners sustain both their livelihoods and lives whilst navigating precarity through relational, financial, practical, material and cosmological interventions in an agentive gold-min…
Institutional settings, power dynamics and motivations in decolonizing North–South research collaborations
This article seeks to inform the quest to decolonize research collaborations between the North (N) and South (S) that started as early as the 1970s, given the prevailing power asymmetries that continue to hinder equitable collaboration. The article is based on a scoping literature review study that sought to interrogate the institutional settings, power dynamics and motivations employed in past and ongoing N–S research collaborations. The search …
Vaccinations, Pills, and Resistance
In the shadow of HIV
Drawing on ethnographic research in Dudi village in Western Kenya, this article explores how the lingering legacies of the 1990s HIV/AIDS epidemic shaped local perceptions of, and responses to, the COVID-19 pandemic and related vaccine controversies. Focusing on the lives of young women living with HIV, the article traces how their experiences of navigating HIV care, stigma, and gendered expectations intersected with anxieties around COVID-19 vac…
In the Shade of Hailstones
In the area of Kano in western Kenya, Luo rice farmers perform a ritual of "digging" indigenous medicine (chwoyo yath) in the rice fields to "arrest" hailstones. The practice is not only rationalized in the image of regulating the spate of climate-accelerated hailstones but also of forming life, expressed through the state of how that life is secured and propagated. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with rice farmers and an expert on hailstones,…
‘Blood Follows Blood’
Among the Luo of Kenya, blood carries potencies that make life. The common saying ‘blood follows blood’ embodies this flow of potencies between different entities (human and non-human) that creates life and changes life-courses. The materiality of blood is agentive here, in the sense that it produces diverse human conditions. Examples are given specifically from life-cycle rituals, prayers, and healing practices of a Luo community in western Keny…
HIV status disclosure and antiretroviral therapy adherence among children in Masaka region, Uganda
HIV-infected children are now living into adolescence and early adulthood in large numbers due to the availability and increased use of antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, receipt of HIV status disclosure among children remains low. We assessed the association between disclosure of HIV status and adherence to ART among children in the Masaka region of Uganda using multivariable logistic regression with generalised linear models with Poisson lo…
Dholuo Kincepts in Western Kenya
The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages. This article presents the traditional kincepts (kinship terminology) of the Luo people as described by elders living in Central Sakwa location, Siaya County, western part of Kenya. The kincepts for consanguine as well as affine relatives in up to three ascending and five …
Effects of Cash Transfers on Community Interactions
This article examines evidence of the effects of national cash transfer programmes on community interactions and discusses the transformative potential of such programmes. The findings indicate positive effects of social transfers on strengthening ‘bonding’ social capital and on breaking patterns of exclusion, but also point to negative effects, particularly in fuelling intra-community tensions and generating feelings of unfairness resulting – fo…
Engaging men who have sex with men in operations research in Kenya
Research on men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa is severely constrained. This paper examines the process of engaging MSM in research in a context where same-sex relationships are criminalised and socially stigmatised. Despite difficulties in researching MSM in Kenya, a convenient sample of 500 men was enrolled into a study aimed at understanding HIV/STI risks and prevention needs. Lessons drawn from this study highlight innovative methodolo…
Changing Household Composition and Food Security among the Elderly Caretakers in Rural Western Kenya
The potential of schoolchildren as health change agents in rural western Kenya
A Study of Risk Factors for Intestinal Helminth Infections Using Epidemiological and Anthropological Approaches
This study, conducted in Kisumu District, Kenya, identified important risk factors for infection with intestinal helminths using traditional epidemiological methods. This was combined with a rapid assessment study using qualitative methods, which focused on sanitation practices and local illness perceptions. The multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that the absence of latrines was a significant predictor for hookworm infection with an o…
The Health Workers for Change impact study in Kenya
This paper reports the detailed results of a study of the impact of the Health Workers for Change (HWFC) workshop series on clients' perceptions of health services, relationships within the health centre and relations between the health facility and the district health system. The study was carried out in three stages: baseline, intervention and evaluation over a period of 20 months. Data, both qualitative and quantitative, were collected at thre…
An evaluation of Health Workers for Change in seven settings
This paper presents the findings of a multi-centre study assessing the impact of Health Workers for Change (HWFC) workshops in seven different primary care sites, based on the common core protocol described in this paper. The paper discusses a common methodology used by the studies, consisting of a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative methods. Such methodologies are inherently complex as they require comparisons across systems, sites and…
The potential of schoolchildren as health change agents in rural western Kenya
Changing Household Composition and Food Security among the Elderly Caretakers in Rural Western Kenya
An evaluation of Health Workers for Change in seven settings
This paper presents the findings of a multi-centre study assessing the impact of Health Workers for Change (HWFC) workshops in seven different primary care sites, based on the common core protocol described in this paper. The paper discusses a common methodology used by the studies, consisting of a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative methods. Such methodologies are inherently complex as they require comparisons across systems, sites and…
The Health Workers for Change impact study in Kenya
This paper reports the detailed results of a study of the impact of the Health Workers for Change (HWFC) workshop series on clients' perceptions of health services, relationships within the health centre and relations between the health facility and the district health system. The study was carried out in three stages: baseline, intervention and evaluation over a period of 20 months. Data, both qualitative and quantitative, were collected at thre…
A Study of Risk Factors for Intestinal Helminth Infections Using Epidemiological and Anthropological Approaches
This study, conducted in Kisumu District, Kenya, identified important risk factors for infection with intestinal helminths using traditional epidemiological methods. This was combined with a rapid assessment study using qualitative methods, which focused on sanitation practices and local illness perceptions. The multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that the absence of latrines was a significant predictor for hookworm infection with an o…
The Health Workers for Change impact study in Kenya
This paper reports the detailed results of a study of the impact of the Health Workers for Change (HWFC) workshop series on clients' perceptions of health services, relationships within the health centre and relations between the health facility and the district health system. The study was carried out in three stages: baseline, intervention and evaluation over a period of 20 months. Data, both qualitative and quantitative, were collected at thre…
An evaluation of Health Workers for Change in seven settings
This paper presents the findings of a multi-centre study assessing the impact of Health Workers for Change (HWFC) workshops in seven different primary care sites, based on the common core protocol described in this paper. The paper discusses a common methodology used by the studies, consisting of a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative methods. Such methodologies are inherently complex as they require comparisons across systems, sites and…
The potential of schoolchildren as health change agents in rural western Kenya
Engaging men who have sex with men in operations research in Kenya
Research on men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa is severely constrained. This paper examines the process of engaging MSM in research in a context where same-sex relationships are criminalised and socially stigmatised. Despite difficulties in researching MSM in Kenya, a convenient sample of 500 men was enrolled into a study aimed at understanding HIV/STI risks and prevention needs. Lessons drawn from this study highlight innovative methodolo…
Changing Household Composition and Food Security among the Elderly Caretakers in Rural Western Kenya
Effects of Cash Transfers on Community Interactions
This article examines evidence of the effects of national cash transfer programmes on community interactions and discusses the transformative potential of such programmes. The findings indicate positive effects of social transfers on strengthening ‘bonding’ social capital and on breaking patterns of exclusion, but also point to negative effects, particularly in fuelling intra-community tensions and generating feelings of unfairness resulting – fo…
Dholuo Kincepts in Western Kenya
The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages. This article presents the traditional kincepts (kinship terminology) of the Luo people as described by elders living in Central Sakwa location, Siaya County, western part of Kenya. The kincepts for consanguine as well as affine relatives in up to three ascending and five …
‘Blood Follows Blood’
Among the Luo of Kenya, blood carries potencies that make life. The common saying ‘blood follows blood’ embodies this flow of potencies between different entities (human and non-human) that creates life and changes life-courses. The materiality of blood is agentive here, in the sense that it produces diverse human conditions. Examples are given specifically from life-cycle rituals, prayers, and healing practices of a Luo community in western Keny…
HIV status disclosure and antiretroviral therapy adherence among children in Masaka region, Uganda
HIV-infected children are now living into adolescence and early adulthood in large numbers due to the availability and increased use of antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, receipt of HIV status disclosure among children remains low. We assessed the association between disclosure of HIV status and adherence to ART among children in the Masaka region of Uganda using multivariable logistic regression with generalised linear models with Poisson lo…
In the Shade of Hailstones
In the area of Kano in western Kenya, Luo rice farmers perform a ritual of "digging" indigenous medicine (chwoyo yath) in the rice fields to "arrest" hailstones. The practice is not only rationalized in the image of regulating the spate of climate-accelerated hailstones but also of forming life, expressed through the state of how that life is secured and propagated. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with rice farmers and an expert on hailstones,…
Vaccinations, Pills, and Resistance
In the shadow of HIV
Drawing on ethnographic research in Dudi village in Western Kenya, this article explores how the lingering legacies of the 1990s HIV/AIDS epidemic shaped local perceptions of, and responses to, the COVID-19 pandemic and related vaccine controversies. Focusing on the lives of young women living with HIV, the article traces how their experiences of navigating HIV care, stigma, and gendered expectations intersected with anxieties around COVID-19 vac…
Disclosure of HIV status to children on antiretroviral therapy
“Looking for life”
In this article we explore how artisanal gold miners in Western Kenya “look for life” in a landscape where precarity is not exceptional but part of everyday life. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with artisanal gold miners and participant observation, we examine how miners sustain both their livelihoods and lives whilst navigating precarity through relational, financial, practical, material and cosmological interventions in an agentive gold-min…
Institutional settings, power dynamics and motivations in decolonizing North–South research collaborations
This article seeks to inform the quest to decolonize research collaborations between the North (N) and South (S) that started as early as the 1970s, given the prevailing power asymmetries that continue to hinder equitable collaboration. The article is based on a scoping literature review study that sought to interrogate the institutional settings, power dynamics and motivations employed in past and ongoing N–S research collaborations. The search …
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