SHA’s Anti-Fraud System: Catching crooks or choking healthcare?
The SMS verification system is blocking treatment. Designed to stop fraud, it…
From routine surgery to fatal infection: Kenya’s battle with antibiotic resistance
AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites stop responding to medicines…
Against the Odds: Africa leading charge to end Neglected Tropical Diseases
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) include sleeping sickness, elephantiasis, bilharzia, river blindness and trachoma, which have…
Hope for Tiny Hearts: County acts to combat childhood heart diseases
SHA covers hospital accommodation charges and open-heart surgery up to a maximum…
Shakahola Cult Massacre: The final goodbye that never comes
The ghosts of Shakahola are back. Just 30km away from Shakahola Forest…
When the well runs dry: How to finance healthcare beyond donor dollars
Withdrawal of donor funding will affect healthcare delivery and sustainability in Kenya unless the government finds…
Locked out by design: How Kenya’s colonial school layouts exclude learners with disabilities
A common reason given for excluding students in Kenyan schools is "architectural…
‘My daughter couldn’t stand, climb stairs, hold a mug’
A cough and numbness led to panic, paralysis and a polymyositis diagnosis, a rare…
Shared bacteria: Why your man should be treated for Bacterial Vaginosis
Men act as a ‘silent reservoir’ for reinfection, turning a manageable condition…
Geography of pain: Why Kenyans rush to herbalists, not hospitals, after snakebite
Limping to traditional healers feeds a silent epidemic claiming 4,000 lives and…
