Beyond the surgeon’s skill: What keeps a child safe on the operating table
With so few paediatric anaesthesiologists in the country, thousands of Kenyan children…
Auditory verbal therapy: How children with hearing loss learn to listen, speak
Hearing devices let children detect sound, but understanding speech is a different…
A childhood between injections: Growing up with Type 1 diabetes in Kenya
Kenya’s paediatric diabetes burden is far larger than many realise. For children…
Ian Baraka: The boy who lost half his face & lived to smile again
The seven-year-old was shot by cattle rustlers, presenting surgeons with a medical…
Hearing loss in children: What every parent needs to know
Why undetected hearing loss in newborns is a growing concern in Kenya:…
Trust, tradition and two vaccines: How communities are wrestling down malaria burden
Community health promoters are winning over sceptical families one conversation at a…
In rural Tanzania, one survivor’s foundation is closing the distance between birth and survival
Born at 900 grams herself, Doris Mollel spent a decade fighting for…
Happy faces, hidden struggles: When a child’s smile hides silent burdens
Children shift from seeking parental approval to searching for independence, identity, belonging and acceptance,…
Beyond dehydration: How diarrhoea can trigger acute kidney injury in children
Parents watch for dehydration. They miss the kidneys. For millions of children,…
