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Lessons for Kenya: How Ethiopia’s Primary Healthcare cuts maternal, newborn deaths
While Ethiopia’s extensive health post network and comprehensive primary care facilities reach…
Kenya’s cancer care changing, but late diagnosis is a major challenge
What happens when patients arrive early, but hospitals aren't ready, the insurance fails, and…
‘By evening, the whole house was coughing’: Inside the flu surge sweeping Kenya
Kenya usually has two flu seasons a year, from July to November…
Gates Foundation, OpenAI pump Ksh6.4 billion to power AI in Africa’s health systems
The project plans to integrate Artificial Intelligence into 1,000 primary healthcare clinics…
Kenya vows to end maternal and newborn deaths as global mortality crisis persists
Systemic dysfunction is a core driver of the problem, as 40 per…
Social Health Insurance Fund is legal, emergency care a must for all, High Court rules
But Judgment faults government over rushed transition of SHIF, orders structural reforms under…
County dispensaries & health centres get lion’s share of primary healthcare funds
Between July 2025 and January 2026, Kenya paid out Ksh12.6 billion to…
Scientists sound alarm as HIV drug resistance grows among Africa’s children, teenagers
A landmark multi-country study is exposing a silent crisis as children and…
Toxic floods: How rainwater & rat pee cause fever, jaundice, kidney failure
Think of the body’s defences as a shield. In Nairobi’s Industrial Area, rainwater mixed…
