On Tuesday, April 16 U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec visited the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Western Kenya. The hospital is an important partner in the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS...
Monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions and poor-quality human medicinal products has gone digital in Kenya.Medicine safety also known as Pharmacovigilance refers to the science of collecting, monitoring,...
"Kwa dawa ya TB ni lazima utembee mpaka upate." (You should never give up when searching for anti-TB medicines). This is the advice that Esther Wahome gives to her clients when they come to the tuberculosis (TB)...
“I still don’t fully accept my status,” says Vivian Achieng , who has been living with HIV for almost four years. Vivian is one of 200 people waiting for antiretroviral therapy outside Kisumu’s HIV Patient Support Centre on...
The Nyalunya Dispensary in Kisumu is quiet today – about 25 patients are waiting to be served by the three health care workers on duty. Noline Anyango, 2, and her four-year-old sister are being tested for malaria by a...
Monica Wambui, a 37-year-old deaf woman from Nakuru in Kenya, has found a new cause. The 37-year-old mother of four, three boys and a girl, wants to be a trainer so that she can teach people with hearing disability about HIV...
Sharon Cherutich Mutai is a produce vendor at a small but bustling market along the highway connecting Kenya and Uganda through the Great Rift Valley town of Eldoret. Normally Sharon, who is in her 30s, is busy selling...
Mbale Provincial Rural Health Training Center in Western Kenya receives about 120 outpatient cases per day with 41% of the people requiring treatment for malaria. The Center provides various medical services at a...
Joyce Kebchirchir was a single mother of one at the age of 20 and even though she had no plans of having a second child in the near future, she had no idea how she was going to manage that. “I only knew about condoms...
Family planning saves lives, improves health, strengthens communities, and stimulates economic growth and is one of the best investments a country can make in its future. In Kenya, family planning is a key strategy for...
