Where persons with disabilities, pregnant or elderly are carried…or climb 14 floors for public services
For two years, a broken lift and missing ramp at Prosperity House…
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…
Sugar & Silence: How ‘rural diabetes’ steals lives, dreams and dignity in Kenya
Across rural Kenya, thousands are living with diabetes without knowing it. For…
Porridge, patience & pills: Why TB treatment takes months to beat
Standard TB takes at least six months to treat because its bacteria…
Trust, tradition and two vaccines: How communities are wrestling down malaria burden
Community health promoters are winning over sceptical families one conversation at a…
Weight-loss medicine: Why beating obesity may start in the clinic, not the gym
Dr Caroline Mithi, an endocrinologist, calls weight-loss medicine one of the biggest breakthroughs in…
One in two Kenyan women aged 20-49 now face higher cancer risk linked to obesity
Women face higher rates because excess fat drives oestrogen-related cancers, with nearly two-thirds of these…
Spinal TB: It cost me four years in 10 hospitals, one collapsed marriage
Robert Kula could barely stand. He coughed relentlessly, lost his appetite and so much weight…
