Burning issue: Kenyan smokers want to quit, will the law let them?
Nicotine activates reward pathways in the brain that influence motivation, pleasure, concentration and mood.…
Born tiny & cold: How Ksh50 handmade hats, socks are saving preterm babies
A women's knitting group in Kilifi County is doing what health budgets failed…
52 million doses of hope: How Africa is slowly, but surely rolling back childhood malaria
Malaria’s vaccine breakthrough moment is here, but a funding gap and fragile…
No visa needed: When people move, Ebola moves with them too
Unlike diseases that remain geographically contained, Ebola travels with people. A trader crossing a border,…
The hardest goodbye: When Kenyan medics at Ebola frontlines wrote wills, prepared own funerals
Lydia Mukhaye thought about her hubby, her children, the possibility she might never…
Finance Bill 2026 targets tobacco taxes as WHO warns of rising youth nicotine addiction
Nicotine is highly addictive and particularly harmful to children and adolescents, with…
Your baby’s first vaccines: The questions every new parent asks, answered
Private ‘baby-friendly’ vaccines get most of the attention. But Kenya's public immunisation programme…
Disease outbreaks are not the problem; systems that fail to detect them are
From diagnostic gaps to community mistrust, the panel of global health leaders…
The Pandemic’s True Toll: Covid-19 caused 22.1 million deaths, three times what was reported
A new WHO report lays bare the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic’s hidden mortality and…
