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Moving less, eating worse: How early screening reverses spike in diabetes cases
‘If you are malnourished in childhood, the pancreas may not develop well,…
High Stakes: What US withdrawal from climate bodies means for Kenya
Experts have warned on impacts such as more extreme heat waves, floods,…
Door-to-door: How CHPs are winning war against maternal anaemia
‘Most women don’t even know they are anaemic until they start feeling…
Sweet Poison: WHO sounds warning over NCD crisis fuelled by cheap sugary drinks, alcohol
Despite the African region leading in taxing sugary drinks far higher than…
Inside Gates Foundation $9 billion plan to save mothers, children, fight poverty, disease
Priority areas include maternal health, polio eradication, vaccine development, and use of…
Kenya embraces new Post-Abortion Care guidelines to save women, girls in crisis
In the new guidelines, trained health professionals are mandated to begin comprehensive Post-Abortion…
The measles miracle: How vaccines cut global cases over two decades
Vaccines are protecting the world's most vulnerable children with Gavi-backed campaigns reaching…
Sugar, Salt and Suffering: Why Kenyan MPs want to fix what you eat
The country is trapped in an unhealthy food environment where junk food…
When medicine stops working: Inside Africa’s new search for effective drugs
Over 200,000 newborns die annually from infections that standard antibiotics can no…
